You Wait 20 Minutes For A Bus…

By · February 7, 2012 at 11:45 am · 15 Comments · Miscellaneous · Report an error ·

…and then all the buses in the world come along. Amusing/frustrating images from James Bird, who snapped this omnibus centipede on Essex Road this morning. Can anywhere else in town beat Essex Road for long chains of buses?

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  • Daniel Jeffery

    Pentonville Road’s not much better

  • Boofox

    My boyfriend counted 79 buses after we got off our bus on essex road near the New North Road junction! 

  • Dan

    Daniel, that’s the same queue! When I walked past it this morning it had started just outside the Essex Road Station and went all the way through to Pentonville Road. 1 mile of buses.

  • F Redman

    Does anyone know why Islington Council dig up Angel on a seemingly anual basis, or why when all they seem to do is move paving slabs around it takes months every time?

    It’s sometimes feels like a bit of a first world problem, but then we are paying first world transport costs…

    More pics: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/1023430/1/Angelroadworks?h=08d283#/

  • http://www.dominicsayers.com/ Dominic Sayers

    Oxford Street (of course). From my office window in Oxford Circus: 
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicsayers/5609560172/

    • F Redman

      Ha. The Olympics are going to be so much fun.

  • http://twitter.com/future_timeline Will Fox

    At Elephant & Castle, I once saw a chain of about 30 buses.

  • Apples

    Route 28 is the same, especially around Wandsworth Town… what seems like a dozen buses going in the other direction and NONE going my way… so freaking annoying!!! 

  • Hollymacartney

    This queue if buses had no one on it either and the queue must have been over a mile long!

  • travistravis

    Wood Green Shopping City gets to be similar, although nowhere near that many. Often 10-12 are visible in the block or two I can see.

  • Mikkiangelo

    This just shows why we need the Chelsea-Hackney line. I think they use more buses to run the 38 than any other oute in London.

  • some dude

    A bus broke down outside angel station. Buses were that closely piled up that no one could reverse out to break the chain.

  • Anonymous

    I have face many Difficult to Pick up a Bus.
    http://forums.usingwindowshomeserver.com/user/4201-alaxandera/

  • belly

    that picture is the epitome of my trip to school and college, and funnily enough, I was always stuck around Essex Road Station. Having to walk to school, there would always be at least one 341 to seven 38′s. Useless!  

  • http://twitter.com/james_panaligan James Panaligan

    The 38s did it!

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