Gett and Citymapper are launching a new London bus

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The service, named BB1, will run

between Highbury & Islington and Waterloo. Gett claims it will be 60 per cent faster on fixed routes than a bus. The north-south line will open on September 25 and run through Angel, Farringdon and Aldwych. A journey between Upper Street and Somerset House takes an average of 40 minutes on existing public transport. On the Gett Together route, it’s anticipated this will drop to 15 minutes.
"It’s on demand and it’s direct, and of course it’s an app," says Matteo de Renzi, managing director of Gett in the UK. "You can choose any time to use the service, you are not constrained to the timetable of the existing network."
The current routes by Gett Together are used by thousands of people a day and de Renzi expects this new route, because its been created using the Citymapper data, will be much more successful. "The use of this solution is very scaleable, so we can scale up the number of drivers based on the take-up. But we do expect to be in the range of a few thousand every day," he says.