higthomas
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Without looking up the precise details, off the top of my head, the 84 and predecessors were serving Potters Bar, Barnet and St Albans in the 1930s; the 65 from Ealing terminated at Leatherhead Garage, which was a LT country area garage, in the 1950s and 1960s, possibly earlier. I can only remember a red bus i.e. central area 93 bus to Dorking on Summer Sundays in the 1950s, basically an extension from Epsom of the Putney Bridge route. I think my godmother and I used this once from her home in Morden: we were picnicking on Box Hill.
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Given that authorities like Herts and Kent have recently reduced or abolished all subsidies to operators for evening routes, I would imagine their council taxpayers would not be too impressed to learn those same authorities were going to subsidise people returning from their jollies in Leicester Square or Camden Town on a Friday or Saturday night.
Re your last sentence, I have to entirely disagree, assuming the bus route in question would be calling at stops in Greater London before crossing the boundary. Neither the driver nor the Oyster machine would know how far you were travelling, so you'd have to tap OUT with your Oyster i.e. a negation of the tap-in only Oyster system for buses.
Could you not set it up so that when the buses get to stops outside London on night buses only the door by the driver is opened and you just make people have to essentially tap out, except that you just charge another £1.50. Or is that impossible? If I lived in Dartford or somewhere I'd very happily pay £1.50 to save a cab from Sidcup or wherever.
Or, how about places outside London have equal public transport funding per head and so could fund such services? But I guess I'm just being stupid. People outside London should drive, we don't need public transport