Blackheath-Greenwich bus link starts

After several years of campaigning by local residents and the local Labour party, a new bus link between Greenwich town centre and Blackheath Village started on February 10th.

The 386 route is being extended to run along Greenwich South Street, Blackheath Hill, Shooters Hill Road and Prince Charles Road every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 30 minutes in the evenings and on Sundays. The rest of the 386 route is unaffected.

“Nick Raynsford MP, Labour councillors and I have been striving to get this bus link started and I am pleased that our work has paid off,” says local GLA member Len Duvall. “Residents have complained for years about the difficulty of getting from Blackheath Village to Greenwich and the inconvenience of changing buses.” Improvements like this show how important it is to have Labour representatives working for you: the Tories’ position is to cut investment in bus expansion. Tories on the Greater London Assembly have even called for free bus travel for under-18s to be scrapped. “Whatever image the Tories’ new leader is trying to portray, we know that all they want to do is cut services or increase costs,” says Len. “They’re still the same old Tories!”