How these proposals may change your bus journey

Customers of route W12

• People travelling to Whipps Cross Hospital from Walthamstow, Wanstead and South Woodford would be able to use route W12 to complete the same journey as they do now except there would be a bus every 15 minutes instead of every 30 minutes.
• People travelling to Whipps Cross Hospital from Walthamstow, Wanstead and South Woodford would benefit from an increased frequency on weekends and all evenings.
• People travelling to Whipps Cross Hospital from Nightingale Lane and Snaresbrook Road would be able to use route W14 to complete the same journey as they do now except there would be a bus every 60 minutes instead of every 30 minutes.
• At the moment, people travelling from Whipps Cross to Woodford need to change bus at Wanstead. If we were to restructure route W12 as proposed these journeys could be completed without the need to change bus.
• Current users of route W12 would benefit from new travel opportunities to additional areas including Leyton, Wanstead and Woodford.
• Some current journeys on route W12 would no longer be possible on one bus
• People travelling to Walthamstow and other local destinations from Nightingale Lane and Snaresbrook Road would have to interchange between routes W14 and W12 at either Whipps Cross Interchange or South Woodford.
• People using stops in Walthamstow Village would no longer have access to a bus service. Bus access from Walthamstow Village would be by foot, with up to a 500 metre walk to bus stops on Church Hill Road or Shernhall Street served by route W12 or on Hoe Street served by other routes.

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Customers of route W13

• Current users of route W13 would benefit from new direct travel opportunities including Leyton and Leytonstone High Road.
• Current users of route W13 would benefit from an increased frequency on weekends and all evenings

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Customers of route W14

• Some current journeys on route W14 would no longer be possible on one bus
• People travelling between Woodford Bridge and Leytonstone would be able to use route W12 to complete the same journey as they do now.
• People travelling between Leyton and Wanstead would be able to use route W13 to complete the same journey as they do now.
• People travelling from South Woodford to Leyton would be able to use route W13 to complete the same journey as they do now.
• Interchange would be possible between the W12 and the W13 on their overlapping section between Leytonstone and Wanstead for more local destinations.

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Customers of route 549

• Current users of route 549 would be able to use route W14 to complete the same journey they do now, except there would be a bus every 60 minutes instead of every 90 minutes.
• Current users of route 549 would benefit from new direct travel opportunities to Wanstead, Snaresbrook and Whipps Cross Hospital.
• A Sunday and all evenings service would be introduced for current passengers travelling between Loughton and South Woodford. There would be a bus every 60 minutes on the proposed W14.

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