Greenline

I remember getting the Green line bus from one side of London to the other to get to college after a weekend at home. I didn't know they were still running. It used to be great service.

I think the problem with Greenline is just that. Nobody knows they still run its only word of mouth really. Im sure if more people knew about the London Run and how much cheaper it is more people would of used it. But its too late now.

When I was a child my godmother used the Greenline bus to visit us, she caught it at Aldgate to Bishops Stortford.
We loved going to the bus stop to meet her.

Oh no!
My parents and I used to take the Green Line from Victoria Coach Station to High Wycombe to visit my great - grandmother. It would have been the early 1950s when I was 4 or 5, I guess.

The smell?. No ventilation and the smell of diesel fumes.
The ignominy of a passenger freeing up a brown paper from her sandwiches for me to be sick in. (A skill I never mastered). Being passed up the gangway by helpful fellow travellers to reach my other parent who was sitting near the front.

I still get terribly travel sick on coaches and the smell remains with me, in one form or another. At least my mother learnt to take a change of clothing each time☹️

The problem is that, with COVID, fewer people are travelling by coach and with increasing fuel and other costs, Greenline, like other bus companies are losing money on quite a number of services and continuing running them leads only to bankruptcy and all their routes stopping.

I do appreciate how difficult it is for people who have relied on it.

ixion I am another one who suffers from travel sickness and am at my worst on buses/coaches. I also have childhood memories of travelling on busses and feeling very, very queezy, although no memory of being sick. As an adult, nothing has changed and in old age it has, if anything, got worse.