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Hello. I’m Ben. Here’s the plan. Over the next few months I intend to travel on every London bus route in its entirety and document my adventures. I am a London immigrant having grown up in Norfolk, but despite living here for nearly 15 years, realised recently that there are vast swathes of the city that I know very little about. This is my attempt to rectify that.

There are over 600 main routes crossing the capital. The basic London routes start at No 1 and go up to No 499, with only a few gaps. Those between 500-700 are basically part-time services and school buses, which I shall avoid for obvious reasons. My tentative plan is to complete at least three a week – in between job and family – which should see me done before the Olympics.

The Facebook group for this enterprise is here and you can contact me at numb at blueyonder dot co uk