This new interactive map shows the most crowded bus stops in London

"Now there's a new interactive map that shows exactly which London bus stops are the busiest so you can avoid (or mentally prepare yourself for) them. Created by travel expert and journalist Ed Jefferson, the London's Busiest Bus Stops map allows you to search for any stop in the city. That's 19,000 stops across 700 different routes. Jefferson used 2024 TfL data obtained from a Freedom of Information request (FOI) that revealed the number of passengers that boarded at each bus stop in the capital."

"London's 100 busiest stops - where the most passengers boarded buses daily - were ranked by Jefferson. Coming in first place was Brixton Station, stop p, which saw 4.2 million passengers board buses in 2024, equivalent to 11,719 people per day. Brixton saw nearly two million more passengers a year than the stop in second place - Harrow-on-the-Hill, stop B - which had 2.6m boarders annually in 2024, and 7,160 per day."

"All 10 of London's most crowded stops were by tube or train stations, where passengers would interchange from the Undergound, DLR or Elizabeth line services. And if that's not an advert for the extension of the tube, we don't know what is. London's 10 busiest bus stops Brixton Station, stop P Harrow-on-the-Hill, stop B Brixton Station, stop Q Stratford, stop AP London Bridge, stop M Elephant & Castle / London Road, stop E Marble Arch Station / Park Lane, stop R Stratford, stop A Barking Station, stop K Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3, stop 19"

An interactive map identifies and ranks bus stop boardings across London, covering 19,000 stops on 700 routes and using 2024 TfL data obtained via a Freedom of Information request. The dataset records the number of passengers who boarded at each stop and supports a ranking of the 100 busiest stops by annual and daily boardings. Brixton Station stop P recorded 4.2 million boardings in 2024 (about 11,719 per day), followed by Harrow-on-the-Hill stop B and Brixton Station stop Q. The busiest stops are located at rail and tube interchanges where passengers transfer between Underground, DLR or Elizabeth line services.

Read at Time Out London