The 'Bakerloop' bus service — running along the proposed Bakerloo line extensions — will begin running this autumn.
The BL1 route, to use its official name, will run between Waterloo and Lewisham town centre, with a fork from Lewisham station also ending at Molesworth Street outside Lewisham Shopping Centre.
TfL says the recent public consultation on the Bakerloop service received "positive feedback", meaning the BL1 route will now become the next spoke in the ever-growing Superloop — a network of express bus services orbiting around, and radiating in and out, of the capital.
In other Superloop news, it's been announced that consultations will take place this autumn on three more routes — the SL13 service (Ealing Broadway-Hendon), the SL14 (Stratford-Chingford Hatch) and the SL15 (Clapham Junction-Eltham).
Consultation on two more routes, the SL11 (Abbey Wood-North Greenwich) and the SL12 (Rainham-Gants Hill) have just closed.
When can we expect the Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham? That could still another 15 years in the making — and may take even longer. For now then, it's the BL1 all the way.
