(people chattering)
(upbeat hip hop)
Hello, I'm at High Street Kensington Tube Station,
except I'm not about to get a tube train.
I'm about to get a bus with the help of this man,
this is Hugo, hi Hugo.
Hi.
Hugo has appeared in one of my videos before
when we did a video about how many buses
could you do on a bus hopper?
So already we've had three in quick succession
we're on number four.
How many minutes anyway, you know what the time is?
We've been going for 10 minutes, 10 minutes.
So 24 buses.
So we're on target for 24 buses at the moment.
Since that, there's been many conversations
about what's the furthest you could go on a bus hopper.
Could you get to Heathrow Airport using bus hopper
for just £1.50 right?
Yes.
And you think it's possible?
Yes.
If you travel from Central London,
which we're gonna take to main Zone 1 to Heathrow Airport.
If you get the Heathrow Express,
it'll cost you like £22.
Yes.
If you go TfL rail from Paddington,
it's like £10, 10.
If you get the Piccadilly Line,
it's still like £3
but you think that by using the bus hopper,
we can get from Zone 1,
which is here in High Street Ken
to hop across Heathrow for just £1.50?
In the daytime.
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So the moment that you saw me touch my Oyster card--
I started the stop watch.
You hit the stop watch,
so now, which way are we going?
If you look on like, say Journey Planner or on Citymapper,
it recommends to get a bus from HSK to Heathrow
to go down to Hammersmith then pick up.
And the logical route is to get the H91
and then later on, that which takes you to Hounslow West
and then head for Heathrow.
But Hugo thinks he knows better.
Hugo could you explain why that won't work?
Because the thing about the hopper
is the last turn you make
you can spend as long on it if you like
but you have to get to the last point
within the 70 minute time limit.
So you've mentioned a great thing there.
So the hopper as many buses as you'd like within 60 minutes
is actually secretly,
well not so secretly because we're telling you,
it's actually 70 minutes.
So as long as we make our last change,
as long as we're on the bus to take us to Heathrow
before 70 minutes and you looked it up
and if you took the H91,
we wouldn't get to Hounslow West within 70 minutes.
It's a lovely 74.
So instead Hugo, what are we gonna do?
We are off to Hammersmith.
And then we're gonna get a bus to Richmond,
which we can probably get to within 50, 60 minutes
of 190 or 419 and then from Richmond we can get the 419
which will take us to Heathrow.
And that will get us there on time.
So here's the plan with the map.
The most direct way to take any bus to Hammersmith
at which point you catch the H91 to Hounslow West.
But remember, we've got to be there in under 70 minutes
to catch any bus to Heathrow to stay within the 70 minutes
bus hopper time limit.
And it's not possible, we don't think to make it in time.
So instead at Hammersmith we'll take either one of two buses
down to Richmond, which will make it around 50 minutes.
And that gives us 20 minutes spare
to catch the 419 all the way to Heathrow.
Easy, right?
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When we get to Hammersmith?
Let's go and get the 419 to Richmond.
Why is that, why that one?
Why that one?
Because then we can go between the bus stations.
So we've just passed, Olympia the station,
the exhibition hall is there,
Remember the whole key to this,
is can we get on to the bus at Richmond
in under 70 minutes?
But first we have to change to Hammersmith.
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And we're heading to get which bus number, Hugo?
419.
The 419, did you see one as we came in or?
I did not.
So we're at bus stop L.
Is it a bus stop or a bus stand?
I'm going with bus stop.
I'll go with stop.
Oh, dear. (Geoff laughing)
How long?
Oh Hugo.
Oh God.
Says 17 minutes.
What about the 190?
Well, what about the 190?
Unfortunately we've gone down to the bottom
and we might have to go back up to the top again.
There's one in three minutes,
there's 190 in three minutes.
Well back up, so--
Go, go, go! (Hugo laughing)
419 is usually better 'cause it doesn't have the traffic.
(people chattering)
190 and there is a 190 due in two minutes.
(bus engine roaring)
We are on the 190,
I don't think I've ever been on the 190 before.
I have.
Give me an amazing fact about the 190 Hugo.
It's the only bus to go over Chiswick Bridge.
Okay, there we go, amazing fact learned.
We'll be doing now.
Okay, in fact here's a shot of us crunching,
crunching what?
Crossing! (both laughing)
Chiswick Bridge.
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We're about five minutes out from Richmond.
We're 48 minutes in.
However Hugo I have to inform you,
we just missed a 419 from outside Richmond Station
and every 10 minutes so that'll be half an hour?
15, I think.
(Geoff laughing)
Oh my.
Okay, we might make it.
We might make it.
We might, it's one from, I've gone from being confident
that this was gonna be easy to we might make it.
(car engine roaring)
But this traffic's quite bad Hugo,
do we get out and walk or do we stay on the bus?
That's a good question.
We've done something rather controversial,
the traffic is so bad
and we haven't even got to the roundabout.
We think we can beat the bus, which is there,
which is there by walking.
So we're gonna walk the last bit down to Richmond Station.
Yeah this traffic is busy.
We've made the right choice to walk.
Our bus is not the one in the foreground you can see,
it's the one in the background you can't see.
We are beating the bus.
By walking.
But we've got about 15 minutes
'cause the clock's on 55 minutes
to tap in on a 419.
And if there is no 419, we don't make it.
Do we even bother going to Heathrow if we don't make it
'cause we've then failed, oh.
Ah!
But the good news is this is the roundabout
and the bus stop.
It's past the roundabout.
It's just past the roundabout.
For Richmond station, for Richmond Station bus stop E
is here but look it's saying how often?
Every 12 to 13 minutes.
So it can't be every half an hour.
Here's my theory what if there's one due
but the driver just hasn't logged into I-Bus.
That's possible.
Correct me if I'm wrong,
so when the drivers get to their stand
or they're starting a journey they log into I-Bus
and that in sense to make the journey.
So if he just hasn't done it yet,
it won't be appearing in the data feeds
which then come up on the apps.
So 419 unadvertised on the app could roll in any second.
Yes.
So we just need a 419 to roll up,
let's look at the stopwatch.
That's a 190.
Se beat our 190.
Hang on, what's this?
No, there's a 493, it's a 493.
My clock is saying we have just done an hour.
We've literally done the hour
so if a 419 turns up in the next 9 minutes,
we'll have made it, if it doesn't, then failed.
It's saying 16 minutes, the app is saying
the next one is 16 minutes and we only have eight minutes.
We need the app,
To be wrong.
I don't think we've made it,
I think we haven't made it
because there's a gap in the service.
There was no 419, where there was meant to be a 419,
we've missed, we haven't made it.
Sadly, when this clock is over to 110, we haven't made it
and the next 419 is about six minutes away.
Looking at the bus feed apps as we came down,
approaching Richmond we just missed one,
which means there was a gap.
There's been a gap of around half an hour between 419s
and the turn table there is very clearly saying
every 12 to 13 minutes.
So there's been a bus missing.
So in eight seconds time we're about to fail to do it.
Four, three, two, one.
We have not made Zone 1 to Heathrow for £1.50
on this occasion.
(people chattering)
I'm starting to worry if 419s actually exist,
Are you sure they're a thing?
I think we saw them go in the other way.
Okay.
Maybe they only in one direction. (Hugo laughing)
We're still here waiting for the magic 419 not to appear
and any second now. (Hugo laughing)
Right?
Hugo, look.
A 419.
It's happened.
It exists.
It exists!
[Automated Bus Woman] 419 to Heathrow Terminal five.
We have managed to get on.
A 419.
Show them my stopwatch, so one hour.
30 Minutes, 48 seconds.
So about 20 minutes over the 17 minutes from the hopper.
But we have been waiting here.
We did wait at Richmond for a good half an hour.
More than half an hour.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go one stop,
and then walk down to Richmond and then we'll go home.
(upbeat hip hop music)
Thanks 419.
Thank you for finally coming.
For our one stop on the 419.
It exists.
Yeah, the 419 bus does exist.
Hugo, I think we need to debrief.
We need to get a cup of tea
and we'll go sit on the train right?
Yes.
Let's do that.
I do take trains.
(train screeching)
(people chattering)
That's the end of our day, we're on the train home.
Hugo, how was your day?
Some highs and lows. (Hugo laughing)
That'll probably be it.
But the point is, is it possible to do?
And I think the answer is yes.
Definitely possible.
Did de manage to do it today?
The answer is no.
Do you at Hammersmith,
should we have waited for that first bus
or was it good that we switched?
Where did we go wrong?
We went wrong by just being unlucky I suppose.
So what I scent we've inadvertently done now to YouTube
is thrown down the gauntlet.
Can you out there,
anyone do what we failed to do today?
So you've got to go to High Street Ken
or any Zone 1 station,
and you've got to get to, across Heathrow all for £1.50
but you've got to make that last connection
before your 70 minutes is up, is that right?
That's correct.
Okay, all right.
Yeah.
Thanks very much.
You too.
It's gone very quiet over there.
(both laughing)
It has hasn't it.
Yeah wow! (both laughing)
And TFL please, please put more 419s on to Richmond.
That was a shame.
Well if they exist. (Geoff laughing)
Thanks Hugo.
Thanks.
Cheers.
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