A bus that offers a direct link between two of London’s biggest Jewish communities has been launched in a bid to improve safety.The 310 bus links Golders Green and Stamford Hill. It has been introduced by Sadiq Khan at a cost of £3.2million to honour a pledge he made during this year’s mayoral elections.
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00:00I'm in Golders Green for the launch of the first direct bus route between here and Stamford Hill.
00:07Mayor Sadiq Khan has decided to honour a manifesto pledge and is spending £3.2 million on this brand new route,
00:15which will link these two major Jewish areas in North London with the service every 20 minutes.
00:21Families were scared about that change at Kingsley Park.
00:25Not because they had suffered necessarily criminality, but that fear.
00:30We've got to recognise perception sometimes can be as important to somebody and the impact on them as the actual crime itself.
00:37And so, although we've got the hopper fare, which means you can change buses without paying extra within an hour,
00:42there was the fear of getting off the bus, the fear of having to wait at the bus stop.
00:46The fear led to people not using that bus, the 210 and the 253,
00:51I'm hoping the 310, being a direct link between A and B, Golders Green and Stamford Hill, will mean people will use the bus and make that journey.
00:59So there is undoubtedly, particularly for Jews who are very visibly as such, there is a concern about public transport.
01:07And that's increased since the 7th of October last year and the current very difficult situation.
01:13And members of the community do feel vulnerable.
01:17And the fact that you have a direct bus route between the two will certainly ease those concerns.
01:22And there's a tendency to prefer buses to the underground because one feels a lot safer above ground.
01:31And so I think this will have an impact on that.