London river boat returns

The Thames Clippers river craft  service is back in action today (15 June) one of the many transport casualties of Covid-19 lost at the end of March.

A range of enhanced hygiene and social distancing measures have been introduced to allow for a safer transport option through London.

With almost half (46%) of Thames Clippers’ London commuters having ‘concerns over getting ill on other forms of transport’, and a quarter (24%) stating they believe they have a ‘better quality of travel on Thames Clippers’, the river bus service says it is keen to support London’s workers with getting moving again as we start to see an ease in the lockdown measures.

Thames Clippers will be offering a bespoke timetable for the restart of the schedules.  All services will include measures in place to support social distancing at piers and on board the vessels, as well as an enhanced cleaning regime.

At peak times pre-coronavirus, Thames Clippers carried 1.4 passengers per sq m. With the new social distancing measures in place, this is reduced to just 0.85 passengers per sq m. For context, ordinarily, there were 5-7 people per sq m on the London Underground and with its current social distancing measures, TfL has managed to reduce this to around 1.3 passengers per sq m.

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