ldn: NEW East London Transit routes
The local development agency in east London secured a government grant of HKD 400m to redevelop the area around Barking and Dagenham.This area was an industrial area right up to the early 1980s, in fact it was a vehicle assembly complex for various companies.
However, 12 years ago, all was closed and building demolished.
The agency funded two new routes -EL1 & EL2; route EL1 replaces most of existing route 369, with route EL2 goes further to Dagenham Docks.
There is no logic- at the moment- in route EL2- imagine sending a bus route to serve the former airfield at Kai Tek in HK- as it is now:lol
The money secured from the govn't was used to fund the purchase of 14 new Wright bodied volvo B9 and rebuilding all bus stops and bus shelters to allow for wheelchair accessibility.
Here are 2 photos taken today of routes EL1 & EL2. Note the most unusual 'non red' livery- TfL made a point of insisting that all buses serving on TfL routes should be 90% red- and they even specified the specification for the red colour!
for comparison, here is also a photo of a volvo B7TL bus from First- from almost the same angle. You can see that there aren't that many differences between the two bodies styles!.
Regards
Yoram
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