95 duty is the duty with the most Megabus driving and I did it yesterday. The driving starts with Winchester to London, then you do a London – Brighton – London before the return drive to Winchester. In all it’s bit under 500kms.

All was going well until the Brighton to London trip, I was going north on the A3 just past Kingston when all three lanes of the dual carriageway came to a complete standstill. After 10 minutes and about 100 yards I called Perth control for a traffic update “5 miles of static traffic northbound on the A3” was all they could say. At this point I couldn’t think of any alternative other than to sit it out, slowly it inched forward a few yards at a time until we came to where the Police had closed the remainder of the A3 and were directing traffic off the A3 towards Merton; I’ve never been to Merton before and have no knowledge of this area at all. Ask the passengers if anyone knew the area and drew a blank so out came the A-Z. The obvious route seemed to be to Wimbledon and on until reaching the A24. I think everyone else saw it as the obvious route as well! Instead of taking 2 hours the whole journey took 4 hours. Progressively passengers began to give up, when the first tube station was spotted a few asked to leave the bus, then some more when the next tube station came into view, more at the next and so on. By the time I reached Victoria I only had four passengers left on board. We had averaged less than 13mph for the entire Brighton to London journey!