Editing London congestion charge (section)

=== Public transport ===
On the launch date of the original zone, an extra 300 buses (out of a total of around 8,000) were introduced.<ref name=more_buses/> Bus route changes have been made to take advantage of the presumed higher traffic speeds and the greater demand for public transport; [[London Buses route 452|route 452]] was introduced and three others (routes [[London Buses route 31|31]], [[London Buses route 46|46]] and [[London Buses route 430|430]]) were extended. The frequency of buses on other routes through the zone extension were also increased.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/02/19/congestion_bus_routes_feature.shtml  |publisher=BBC London |access-date=26 May 2007 |title=Buses increased after congestion extension}}</ref>

In 2007 TfL reported that bus patronage in the [[central London]] area (not the same as the Congestion Charge Zone) had increased from under 90,000 pre-charge to stabilise at 116,000 journeys per day by 2007. It also reported that usage of the Underground has increased by 1% above pre-charge levels, having fallen substantially in 2003–2004. They could not attribute any change in [[National Rail]] patronage to the introduction of the central zone charge.<ref name="tfljune2007" />