> I seem to remember discussion here establishing that when there is an
> emergency diversion, buses don't stop at the stops on the alternative
> route (no matter how much you beg to be let out with your heavy
> shopping near home rather than be taken to somewhere there's no way
> back from), but that they do stop if there's a planned diversion.
>
> This doesn't seem to be the case with buses diverted from Hither Green
> Lane (181 and 225, both of which I used recently), which are running
> non-stop.
>
> Has anyone got any new insights into why they are running this way?
> There are plenty of bus stops on the diversion route.

> I seem to remember discussion here establishing that when there is an
> emergency diversion, buses don't stop at the stops on the alternative
> route (no matter how much you beg to be let out with your heavy
> shopping near home rather than be taken to somewhere there's no way
> back from), but that they do stop if there's a planned diversion.
>
> This doesn't seem to be the case with buses diverted from Hither Green
> Lane (181 and 225, both of which I used recently), which are running
> non-stop.

> MIG wrote:

>> I seem to remember discussion here establishing that when there is an
>> emergency diversion, buses don't stop at the stops on the alternative
>> route (no matter how much you beg to be let out with your heavy
>> shopping near home rather than be taken to somewhere there's no way
>> back from), but that they do stop if there's a planned diversion.

>

>> This doesn't seem to be the case with buses diverted from Hither Green
>> Lane (181 and 225, both of which I used recently), which are running
>> non-stop.

>
> Ditto in my experience when routes 34, 102, 144 and W6 were diverted
> (planned diversion) between the Cambridge Roundabout (where the A10 and
> A406 meet) and North Middlesex Hospital to run via Sterling Way instead
> of via Silver Street.
>
> Despite the TfL website saying that buses on diversion would stop at
> temporary stops near Bull Lane (of which the Eastbound stop is already a
> bus stand, complete with flag, and the Westbound has the "Bus Stand" ...