\u00a0 \u00a0 The August Bank Holiday weekend saw the highest number of bus and Tube journeys since the pandemic in comparison to the same long weekend in previous years, as millions travelled to west London to participate in the Notting Hill Carnival. \u00a0 TfL is now hoping to maintain this upward momentum as autumn approaches. Londoners are being encouraged to walk, cycle and hop on public transport this month to make the most of the Open House Festival, a firm favourite in the capital\u2019s cultural calendar.<\/p>\n We have had a bumper summer with people using public transport to make the most of London\u2019s cultural offerings, including the Notting Hill Carnival over the Bank Holiday weekend<\/p>\n Emma Strain, TfL\u2019s customer director, said: \u201cWe have had a bumper summer with people using public transport to make the most of London\u2019s cultural offerings, including the Notting Hill Carnival over the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n Scotland\u2019s capital also enjoyed a surge in public transport ridership during August. On August 18, two weeks into the Edinburgh Festival season, bus operator Lothian recorded over 100,000 \u2018taps\u2019 on its \u2018TapTapCap\u2019 contactless payment method. Usage of the system usually averages at over 80,000 journey taps per day. <\/p>\n \u00a0 DON\u2019T MISS OUT \u2013 GET YOUR COPY! \u2013\u00a0click here to subscribe!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post TfL records highest ridership since Covid<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August Bank Holiday Weekend saw a near 10% increase in bus travel on the equivalent weekend last year, with Tube journeys seeing a near 6% rise \u00a0TfL is now hoping to maintain upward momentum as autumn approaches \u00a0 New ridership figures from Transport for London have revealed a record number of public transport journeys since the Covid-19 pandemic. The August…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
TfL is now hoping to maintain upward momentum as autumn approaches<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNew ridership figures from Transport for London have revealed a record number of public transport journeys since the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
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\nBus travel saw a near 10% increase on the equivalent weekend last year, with Tube journeys seeing a near 6% increase. The weekend rounded off a busy summer on the network that saw stations in central London hit pre-Covid levels at weekends, if not exceed them, by early August.<\/p>\n
This article appears inside the latest issue of\u00a0Passenger Transport<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n