The Premium Corridor programme is part of improving your bus services on the major bus corridors throughout Chiswick. As traffic increases on the streets of Chiswick, and as the amount of bus journeys around the city increases, it is important to reduce the journey time that it takes to go from one place to another, as well as increase capacity. Also, comfort is important for your journey. In 2012, we started work on the busiest and largest bus corridors, gradually improving frequencies and improving bus priority with busways and dedicated bus lanes.
Premium Corridors were introduced in 2015 with the 1, 111, 17 and 77 corridors. They are the busiest and largest bus corridors in Chiswick, with the largest passenger flows. Skip-stop service between Whitmore CHKU Station and Chiswick East on the 111/111A, X111/X111A was also introduced. This constituted stage 2 of the Premium Corridor programme, behind the infrastructure improvements.
Stage 3 of the Premium Corridor programme, started in 2017, was the expansion of the Premium Corridor concept to other corridors, starting with new cross-border 277, before turning to city-wide artery routes and important regional corridors.
Corridors 37 and 69 were converted as part of large scale changes across the TfC network on 5th September 2020, due to the pandemic postponing many changes at Transport for Chiswick.
The Premium Corridor Quality:
frequent buses at least every 8 minutes on main routes, every 20 minutes on main night routes
these will combine to create higher frequencies on the main corridor sections
free wi-fi on each bus
USB and plug sockets at most seats
high backed coach-style seats
reclining seats on newer buses
tray-tables at most seats
luggage racks on some buses
dedicated stopping areas for premium corridor bus routes
real-time bus tracking
next stop indicators and announcements
24 hour service across the main corridor
pay before you board on all main corridor routes on certain corridors
free transfer between all corridor bus routes (3 direct transfers on ChiswickCard), in addition to existing discounted transfers to other routes
bus priority measures across the whole corridor, including segregated bus lanes
sides 1 and 2 at Chiswick Capital Bus Station dedicated to Premium Corridors