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Bus impact from the Wireless Festival at Crystal Palace in 2021

Request ID: FOI-0140-2223
Date published: 16 May 2022

You asked

Hl there, You have kindly made available via other FOIs information detailing the average bus transit times for; morning and afternoon peak times; intermediate peak times; and 12h average from 7-7pm, and showing in context for the month. I need similar bus transit times for the 13 bus routes that meet at Crystal Palace to assess the impact from the Wireless Festival that took place during September 10, 11th and 12th September 2021. This was when the Wireless Festival event caused severe local area congestion to these bus routes at Crystal Palace district town Centre and buses using the Crystal Palace bus station. This covers the following buses: 3, 157, 322, 122, 202, 227, 249, 358, 363, 410, 417, 432, 450, And covers the following Crystal Palace bus stops: Crystal Palace Parade: A, D, B, C Anerley Hill, E, F Westow Hill, K Church Road, G, Westow Street, H Pease could you make that data available? Thank you

We answered

TfL Ref: 0140-2223

Thank you for your request received by us on 20 April 2022 asking for information about bus transit times for bus routes in the Crystal Palace area of south east London.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act / and our information access policy.  I can confirm that we hold the information you require. You asked for the following:

You have kindly made available via other FOIs information detailing the average bus transit times for; morning and afternoon peak times; intermediate peak times; and 12h average from 7-7pm, and showing in context for the month.

I need similar bus transit times for the 13 bus routes that meet at Crystal Palace to assess the impact from the Wireless Festival that took place during September 10, 11th and 12th September 2021.   This was when the Wireless Festival event caused severe local area congestion to these bus routes at Crystal Palace district town Centre and buses using the Crystal Palace bus station.

This covers the following buses:
3, 157, 322, 122, 202, 227, 249, 358, 363, 410, 417, 432, 450,

And covers the following Crystal Palace bus stops:
Crystal Palace Parade: A, D, B, C
Anerley Hill, E, F
Westow Hill, K
Church Road, G,
Westow Street, H

Please see the attached spreadsheet providing the requested information extracted from our iBus database records for bus routes 3, 122, 157, 202, 227, 249, 322, 358, 363, 410, 417, 432 and 450 between 10 and 12 September 2021.

Data is presented in matrix format by route and direction. The stop points are shown across, while bus trips are shown from top to bottom. Each cell features either iBus recorded departure times or a comment where the time is not available.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely



Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
 

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