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Arriva LondonWright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodiedVolvo B5LH atWood Green station in April 2023
Overview
Operator	Arriva London
Garage	Wood Green
Vehicle	Volvo B5LHWright Eclipse Gemini 2 Wright Eclipse Gemini 3
Peak vehicle requirement	31
Night-time	Night BusN29
Route
Start	Trafalgar Square
Via	Camden Town Holloway Finsbury Park
End	Wood Green station
Route map Legend Wood Green station Wood Green Shopping City Turnpike Lane station Green Lanes West Green Road Harringay Grand Parade Harringay Green Lanes station Manor House station Seven Sisters Road Finsbury Park Finsbury Park station Tollington Road Sobell Centre Seven Sisters Road Hornsey Road Holloway Holloway Road Camden Road Caledonian Road Parkhurst Road Holloway Prison Camden Road York Way Camden Road station Camden Town station Bayham Street Camden High Street Mornington Crescent station Hampstead Road Warren Street station ( Euston Square station ) Gower Street University College London Goodge Street station Bloomsbury Street Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road station Charing Cross Road Shaftesbury Avenue Leicester Square station Trafalgar Square ( Charing Cross station ) This diagram: view talk edit ← {{{previous_line}}}  {{{system_nav}}}  {{{next_line}}} →

London Buses route 29 is aTransport for London contracted bus route inLondon, England. Running betweenTrafalgar Square andWood Green station, it is operated byArriva London.

Today's route 29 traces its history back to a daily route betweenVictoria andWood Green viaWhitehall,Charing Cross Road,Camden Town,Seven Sisters Road andGreen Lanes,Harringay, which began operation on 20 November 1911.^{[citation needed]}

By 1949, the route had been extended northwards to serveSouth Mimms, travelling on from Wood Green viaPalmers Green,Southgate,Cockfosters,Hadley Wood andPotters Bar.^[1] At peak hours on weekdays the route extended further toBorehamwood.^[1] This was changed in 1951 so the route terminated at the Elstree Way Hotel instead of Borehamwood.^[1] Additional journeys on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends were introduced in 1953, serving Clare Hall Hospital. Three years later, the service was withdrawn from Potters Bar and South Mimms, only to be reinstated after just three months.^[1]

Route 29A terminated atOakwood station.

The route was changed again in 1968, with the Monday to Saturday service from Southgate northwards being replaced by newroute 298, and route 298A to Oakwood (except on Saturdays, when new route 125A provided service). Route 29 did, however, continue north from Southgate toCockfosters station at peak hours on weekdays. The Sunday service between Southgate and South Mimms was replaced two years later by newroute 299. Late journeys on Monday to Saturday were also changed to terminate at The Triangle in Palmers Green at this time.^[1] In 1977, the Southgate portion of the route was withdrawn completely, with the route instead continuing northwards from Palmers Green through Winchmore Hill to Enfield Town.^[1]

The route continued to operate between Victoria and Enfield Town for the next 14 years, being served by a fleet ofAEC Routemasters operating out ofPalmers Green garage.^[2]

In 1988, the route was converted to single person double deck operation. A proposal byCapital Citybus to operate the route using 30 tri-axleLeyland Olympian double-decker buses in 1991, personally submitted by company ownerTsui Tsin-tong and Ensign Citybus managing director Leon Daniels,^[3] was rejected byLondon Regional Transport, then in charge of tendering the route,^[4] and the route was retained by incumbent operatorLeaside Buses.^[5]

On 14 January 2006,Mercedes-Benz O530Garticulated buses were introduced.^[6] It was reported that operation of the route by articulated vehicles cost around £1.6 million more per year than double-deck operation.^[7]

In April 2006, the route's stop inTottenham Court Road was relocated and a bus lane extended to provide more space for passengers and vehicles.^[8]

In November 2011, operation of the route was switched from articulated buses to double-decker buses.^[9]

On 5 and 6 February 2014, nine AEC Routemasters were used on the route during aLondon Underground strike.^[10]

The route is noted for its high crime rate, and in January 2008 was London's third most dangerous bus route, according to figures released byTransport for London.^[11] In February 2010 police presence on the route was increased. This followed a similar increase in early 2005 which had focussed on antisocial behaviour and illegal parking along the route.^[12][13]

In 2015/16 it was the third busiest route in London with 15.5 million passengers.^[14]

In 2021, the service frequency during peak times Monday to Friday was reduced from 12 buses per hour to 10.^[15]

Route 29 operates via these primary locations:^[16]

• Trafalgar SquareforCharing Cross station
• Leicester Square station
• Cambridge Circus
• Tottenham Court Road station
• Goodge Street station
• Warren Street station
• Mornington Crescent station
• Camden Town station
• Camden Road station
• HollowayNag's Head
• Finsbury Park station
• Blackstock Road
• Manor House station
• Harringay Green Lanes station
• Turnpike Lane station
• Wood Green station

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• Transport in the London Borough of Islington
• Transport in the City of Westminster

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