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Islington Tribune - by SIMON WROE
Published: 8 June 2007

Bus users in dark over delays

TRANSPORT for London were accused this week of leaving bus users “high and dry” without information after a massive water main burst at Finsbury Park.
The burst pipe erupted beneath Finsbury Park railway bridge causing huge traffic jams along Seven Sisters Road with buses diverted via Highbury and Holloway Road.
Seven Sisters was reduced to a single lane travelling towards Manor House and a diversion route was operating towards the Nags Head.
Notices of the diversions were pinned to several main bus stops at Finsbury Park, but the majority of stops along Seven Sisters Road to the Nags Head, Holloway, had no notification of the problem.
One bus user said: “There were groups of us standing at bus stops with no information and no idea that the buses had been diverted.”
A spokesman for TfL said all the bus stops should have provided with information about the diversion.
Thames Water said traffic is unlikely to be completely back to normal until after the weekend.

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