Residents suggest more stops on SL5 Superloop service between Croydon and Bromley

LONDON’S Superloop of express bus routes now circuits the capital. The quicker services are designed to make sure residents can get around and in and out of outer boroughs more easily.

After the first route, the SL8, launched in the summer, the SL1, SL2, SL3, SL5, SL6, SL7, SL9 and SL10 are now also live. And there is one more to come - the SL4 - between Canary Wharf and Grove Park next year. Buses are due to travel through the currently unfinished Silvertown Tunnel.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq

Khan, has said the Superloop will ‘transform’ how residents navigate the city, and bosses hope that emissions from private cars will be cut. This is why its express services connect drivers to other normal bus services, as well as London Underground and National Rail stations.

The SL5 is a single decker and runs between Bromley and Croydon. During a public consultation on TfL’s plans last year, locals flagged other places where they wanted the SL5 service to stop. Here are the extra stops that residents wanted the speedy services to call at:

■ Sandilands Tram

■ Trinity School

■ Hayes Lane

■ Pinkhurst Lane and Barnfield Road Junction

■ Between Shirley Road / Library and East Croydon

■ Between Bromley South and Chinese Garage

■ Addiscombe Road

■ Around Shirley / Shirley Road

■ Beckenham

■ West Wickham / West Wickham School

■ Ravensbourne School

■ Between Monks Orchard and Wickham Road

■ Bromley Common

■ Valley Walk

■ Bromley FC / Morland Park

■ Warham Road (Swan and Sugar Loaf)

■ Morland Road

■ Brabourne Rise

■ St. Mark’s Church

■ Chislehurst School

■ Sanderstead Village or Purley Oaks

■ Between Eden Park and Bethlem Hospital

■ Shirley Oaks Road

TfL says that the express routes have been designed to terminate at the large town centres and large public transport hubs. The routes will be monitored when in service.

Bosses add that the Superloop will provide ‘efficient and direct services’, and they do not want to make its routes too ‘indirect’. This would not meet the aim of providing a direct route.

Earlier this month, TfL’s director of public transport service planning, Geoff Hobbs, told MyLondon that more Superloop London bus routes could be introduced in the future.