{"id":628,"date":"2005-12-09T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:54:42","slug":"628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/628\/","title":{"rendered":"London Routemaster Farewell in Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London Routemaster Farewell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Routemaster farewell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/images\/routemaster10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Powers That Be have decided that the hugely popular, much-loved Routemaster buses will no longer run on London&#8217;s roads, and today saw the last surviving service &#8211; the 159 from Marble Arch to Streatham &#8211; being withdrawn for ever.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic ground to a halt in Oxford Street as the last Routemaster left on its way south, and the streets along the route were packed with people saying their goodbyes to this London landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the huge affection held for the buses, the entire BBC London news evening broadcast was dedicated to the bus!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to miss them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Routemaster farewell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/images\/routemaster04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/images\/routemaster03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More pics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/routemaster1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Routemaster Farewell The Powers That Be have decided that the hugely popular, much-loved Routemaster buses will no longer run on London&#8217;s roads, and today saw the last surviving service &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191,900,270],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-buses","tag-routemaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/routemaster10.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-628","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}