Save Our Buses55 (SOB)

April 1997 - 55 bus restored to Lea Bridge Road, East London after a relentless Save Our Buses campaign. SOB's fight for better public transport continues....

[Save Our Buses55 (SOB) @SOBSave55]

Axing routes 38 & 55 from Lea Bridge Road was a shock.
Save Our Buses criticised lost West End links & reduced frequencies.
Chronic traffic congestion led to the cuts.
Restoring a decent service would depend on bus priority.
It was integral to campaign success!

[The Fox 👤 @TheFox89688362]

There is blatant disabled discrimination around floating bus stops which needs looking at...
@DisRightsUK

[Elisabeth Benn @benn_elisbenn]

@ShimanoSteve @ediz1975 @theJeremyVine As a wheelchair user most floating bus stops islands are too narrow for ramp deployment & turning of wheelchairs to get on or off ramp. Alighting a bus would fly off ramp crash landing in cycle lane. Blind people have had the ability to travel & their independence removed .

[Ediz @ediz1975]

It does not evaporate…. Cycling groups continue to divide communities harming thousands of children. LTNs and bus gates here are pushed onto poorer communities to provide work from home middle class lobby members a utopia. No wonder bus performance has nose dived

[Save Our Buses55 (SOB) @SOBSave55]

@CLondoner92 Well deserved for all the excellent work you do. Great research & promotion of public transport in the Capital & beyond. 🙂

[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission,@EHRC, has a ‘Guiding Principle: Accessible Design.

[Bus] Services should be designed and consistently operated to ensure older and disabled people have choice and control over how and when to travel and can do so safely and with dignity.

The @mayorofLondon says floating bus stops do all of this, but its the cyclists that are the problem.

[thedevilstuna @thedevilstuna]

@NFBUK @Heidi_Labour @transportgovuk I went to Amsterdam a few years ago & as an ageing but still able bodied pedestrian I found it both stressful & dangerous. Planners in the UK have been seduced by a myth that conveniently excludes rhe experience of pedestrians. Time to ditch the floating bus stops.

[Geraldine 🌹✡️🇺🇦 @GeraldinePirwj]

@Hoot_eye_owl @FestAKINBUSOYE @but_cyclists I never learnt to drive so I definitely don't own a car but I hate floating bus stops and I'm abled bodied also I don't hate blind people. With LTNs I never cared about them until one near me caused extra traffic on another road which delayed my local bus route the 242.

[Joanna Biddolph @JoannaBiddolph]

I've met Sarah Gayton several times and agree this is extremely well-deserved. She rigorously champions the rights of visually impaired people, never giving up and with exceptional determination and intellectual acuity. Thank you to her and all @NFBUK for their persistence.

[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

74% of cycle fatalities and 79% of serious injuries occur at junctions and are not associated with bus stops. @theJeremyVine is wrong. There is much that can be done to reduce collisions without excluding disabled people from our streets and bus services.

[John Stewart @JohnJohnStewart]

This is so well deserved. Highways Magazine have voted Sarah Gayton one of their 2026 Champions. Leading the fight against floating bus stops, Sarah endured the vilest abuse and ridicule but persevered so that now floating bus stops are not an issue that can be ignored.

This is what Highways Magazine said: "We have another Champion to celebrate – this person from the National Federation of the Blind, the Federation’s Immediate Past President. She has campaigned for blind and visually impaired people to be able to use our streets safely.

When Transport for London published a safety review of floating bus stops, she didn’t take it on trust. She worked through the data behind it – a long, painstaking job – and found serious inconsistencies. She took her findings to the British Standards Institute BSI-KSA, the UK National Audit Office, MPs and the press. TfL withdrew the report and committed to re-analysing its figures. One person who checked, and refused to give up.

Ladies and gentlemen, please show your support for Sarah Gayton

[hackneyindependents @hackneyindepen1]

@ife__love @issmith3 @misstahlee @seanpaulday @SocEnvJustice @SOBSave55 @VincentStops @rita_krshn @hold_bag @TogetherHackney @hackneycouncil @Motheringmusing @ediz1975 @andrewellson @EvanDriscoll10 @flickhwilliams @JohnJohnStewart @KatharineQ

[London Assembly @LondonAssembly]

MOTION AGREED: The Mayor should instruct TfL to pause the installation of floating bus stops on the TfL road network, and to pause funding for new floating bus stops through borough programmes. https://t.co/kYJPp9T8ym

[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

The London Assembly has voted by a huge margin, 17 to 3 votes, to call on the @MayorofLondon London to pause all floating bus stops on London’s streets.

[CLondoner92 @CLondoner92]

⚠️🚇 Why TfL needs Customer Service Assistants right now, in one video:

This much-needed recruitment drive is now underway, and looking back over recent weeks, daily station closures and disabled access disruptions due to staff shortages show exactly why. ⤵️

[FIDΞL @FidelUK]

ITV News cameras catch riders breaking new rules on Oxford Street every five minutes at rush hour

This clearly shows that neither @SadiqKhan nor @tfl are in control, truly embarrassing!
https://t.co/kMUd4UVdXg

[John Stewart @JohnJohnStewart]

Oxford Street pedestrianisation adds up to 11 minutes to bus journeys, residents say https://t.co/jSirqhyVqN

[Standard News @standardnews]

Oxford Street pedestrianisation adds up to 11 minutes to bus journeys, residents claim https://t.co/RDZtewZMzR

[John Stewart @JohnJohnStewart]

But cars were already banned from Oxford St for most of the time. What this scheme has done is remove buses and cabs. In fact, it has worsened public transport as bus journey times have worsened and some routes have been curtailed. I have sympathy with some of your general points but it is a mistake to apply them to this scheme.

[NFBUK @NFBUK]

Sheila’s petition is over 1000 signatures (online & paper) to stop the floating bus stops in Colchester. Sheila wants urgent help @andyburnham & @Essex_CC to halt the works please & would like to thank everyone for their support for her petition https://t.co/nIdeMF73LL.
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[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

More and more people across the UK are being impacted by floating bus stops. It’s so unjust that fit young people are being prioritised over blind people. And the cycle fanatics lie about road safety to cover themselves.