Dear

TfL Ref: FOI-2976-1718

Thank you for your email received by us on 18 January 2018 asking for information about 690 Bus route.

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:

“I would like to receive any and all information you have relating to the 690 bus route which runs from St Julian's Farm to Burntwood School, specifically relating to it's organisation, why the bus route is a required service, who requires it, who instigated the bus route, which organisations are responsible for it's running and organisation.”

The route is operated by Arriva South London under contract to TfL.  It is timed to meet the needs of Burntwood School in the Earlsfield area.

It was introduced by TfL in 1999 when one of the journeys on route 689 was re-routed via Herne Hill. At the start of the current contract in September 2011, the journeys between Clapham Common and Burntwood School on route 689 were incorporated into route 690 and route 689 was withdrawn. The section of route 689 between West Norwood and Clapham Common Station was withdrawn.

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.

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Yours sincerely

Paulina Tuffour
FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London