Route 18 Bus

I understand that the route 18 will be debendified in November 2010. I expect this will turn out as a disaster, as the replacement buses will simply not be able to cope with the numbers involved. Certainly other routes that have lost their bendy buses have had numerous problems as a result. It also puts paid to the longstanding pleas from the Liberal Democrats to extend the route northwards to Northwick Park Hospital because (a) Transport for London will not want two major changes at once and (b) cash payments mean that the buses will take longer at each stop. This condition accumulates during the length of the route, and the longer the route the worse the delay and "bunching" of the buses.