5 buses to Orpington

[bob]

So for the buses themed challenge I did variant (c) with n=20.

I used the closest bus stop which had buses other than the ones I can use for my daily commmute. On the way to it I missed 4 buses but a 78 turned up relatively soon.

The 78 diverted from it usual route due to an accident so I counted stops when the driver let people off. At the 20th stop there was no other bus route so I stayed on it for what turned out to be one extra stop where the 78 terminated in a back street nowhere near any other bus stops. So I walked the way the bus had been heading to see when I would find a stop. Which thankfully wasnt too far.

I then got on a 136 which got me as far as Lewisham in its 20 stops.

I then swapped to a 199 for 6 stops which is where it then terminated.

Then I took a 320 for a full 20 stops which got me to just past Bromley High Street.

Then for once I actually had to wait more than a minute for a bus which was the 61 to Chislehurst. By the time this was getting to its 20th stop it was about 20:30 which probably a good time to stop since Orpington is a long way out and it was my 5th bus which was one of the valid stopping points.

I then picked off a couple of pubs in Orpington before returning home.

Google Map of my journey
Flickr photoset
bit.ly bundle of my tweets during the journey

Comments

[kerrypolka]

I saw you tweeting about buses being diverted due to an accident and wondered if it was the same accident I was standing fifteen feet away from - and it was! There was a really major car crash on Rye Lane (one completely flipped and wrecked), but fortunately it seemed the only injury was a passenger's hand getting scraped up, which is pretty amazing.