Free fares in first week of new route

A new bus route, linking parts of southeast London, has launched with free fares for its first week of operations.

The ‘Bakerloop’, which is part of the Superloop network expansion, will run between Waterloo Station and Lewisham every 12 minutes during the day, Monday – Saturday, and every 15 minutes in the evenings and on Sundays.

Electric double-decker BL1 services will operate between 05 00 and 00 30 (5 a.m. and 12.30 a.m.) along the proposed Bakerloo tube line extension route, stopping at Elephant & Castle, New Cross Gate, and Lewisham stations.

The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, said: ‘A Bakerloo line extension will take years to build, and I don’t want to wait any longer to improve transport connections for Londoners.’