Mark Laws testifies on payday lenders


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A member of the public, and a customer for one of the first Payday Plus SF loans, Mark Laws. Laws gave a passionate, first-person account of what it truly means to be poor, working, and caught in the debt trap of payday loans.

CT Plus Loaned Trident


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Plaxton President-bodied HTP1 (LN51 KXP) at the first stop in Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch.

Compare to my earlier pic in this set (see below) of sister vehicle LN51 KXR (now HTP2), taken in Bishopsgate just after the two Tridents loaned from Metroline had arrived. They are on extended loan whilst route 388 is extended to Embankment temporarily whilst Blackfriars Station is rebuilt as part of the Thameslink line upgrade. The buses now have a full set of blinds, have gained CT Plus fleetnames and (somewhat wonky) CT Plus fleetnumbers, but they retain their Metroline blue skirts. HTP1 has the thin white band as well, HTP2 lacks this.

UPDATE: HTP2 has now had its blue skirt painted red. HTP1 however retains the bluye skirt and white lining.

Good News for CT Plus


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It was announced last week that CT Plus have successfully retained route 388 in the latest round of tendering. The new contract runs for 5 years from 23rd January 2010, with a possibility of a two year extension for satisfactory performance.

Route 388 commenced in January 2003 as part of a general increase in bus capacity in Central London ahead of the introduction of the Congestion Charge. Running between Hackney Wick and Mansion House Station, it provided additional capacity along Bethnal Green Road as well as a new direct link to the City from the Victoria Park area. The contract was awarded to CT Plus, the commercial arm of Hackney Community Transport (a not-for-profit organisation), who purchased 13 East Lancs-bodied Tridents (as seen here) for the route. In September that year it was extended a short distance to terminate at Blackfriars Station.

In August 2008, the 388 gained a temporary extension to Temple Station. This was because of the rebuilding of Blackfriars Station and the closure of the Underground platforms in connection with the Thameslink Upgrade. Two Plaxton President-Bodied Tridents are on long-term loan from Metroline for the extension. However, as the buses had to continue past Embankment Station anyway to turn, the route was further extended there in November 2008. The temporary extension will continue into new contract, but it is still planned that the route will be cut back to Blackfriars again once the Underground station reopens in 2011.

On 10th August 2009, HTL1, the first of the batch, pauses at the Wilmot Street stop in Bethnal Green Road. The new contract is on the basis of existing buses, so it is expected that these buses will be overhauled and repainted over the next few months, losing their distinctive yellow "swoops" in the process.

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