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299
Usually an Alexander Dennis Adl Enviro 200.

69% on timeof departures in the week ending 17 October 2026, leaving no more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late. Half of London's timetabled routes managed 73% or better.

The last week, day by day
Share of departures leaving on time.

Watch a day of route 299’s buses: every bus, replayed on the map. Or click a day on the chart.

The weekly figures

The share of departures that left on time.

Week endingQueens AvenueCockfosters Station
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202569%75%
5 Jul 202555% thin64% thin
12 Jul 202584% thin77% thin
19 Jul 202589%83%
26 Jul 202573%80%
2 Aug 202577%75%
9 Aug 202577%75%
16 Aug 202581%78%
23 Aug 202578%76%
30 Aug 202588%76%
6 Sept 202565%74%
13 Sept 202564%74%
20 Sept 202573%73%
27 Sept 202563%79%
4 Oct 202569%78%
11 Oct 202579%84%
18 Oct 202581%76%
25 Oct 202569%79%
1 Nov 202570%71%
8 Nov 202574%76%
15 Nov 202569% thin81% thin
22 Nov 202582% thin65% thin
29 Nov 202567%71%
6 Dec 202566%72%
13 Dec 202570%73%
20 Dec 202572%76%
27 Dec 202582% thin89% thin
3 Jan 202682%88%
10 Jan 202667%83%
17 Jan 202661%71%
24 Jan 202677%76%
31 Jan 202673%78%
7 Feb 202663%70%
14 Feb 202666%76%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202671%83%
14 Mar 202670%79%
21 Mar 202676%77%
28 Mar 202679%76%
4 Apr 202678%72%
11 Apr 202678%80%
18 Apr 202666%76%
25 Apr 202665% thin72% thin
2 May 202662%69%
9 May 202675%76%
16 May 202677%80%
23 May 202674%70%
30 May 202673%79%
6 Jun 202671%68%
13 Jun 202672%64%
20 Jun 202670%74%
27 Jun 202681%81%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202673%66%
18 Jul 202666%61%
25 Jul 202674%72%
1 Aug 2026no datano data
8 Aug 2026no datano data
15 Aug 2026no datano data
22 Aug 2026no datano data
29 Aug 2026no datano data
5 Sept 202670%82%
12 Sept 202667%68%
19 Sept 202662%74%
26 Sept 202663%72%
3 Oct 202659%70%
10 Oct 202664%72%
17 Oct 202664%74%

A passenger going by the timetable at Queens Avenue would find about four departures in ten leaving more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late.

Queens Avenue
On time
64%
Cut short
1.8%
Cockfosters Station
On time
74%
Cut short
3.9%

63 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Bounds Green Station towards Cockfosters Station, on Sunday 11 October from 18:04 to 19:07. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 7.6% of journeys were turned back before the end of the line in the week ending 17 October 2026. Everyone on board has to get off; for anyone waiting further along the route it's effectively a cancellation.

towards Muswell Hill

Last week, 41 of 371 journeys (11%) were turned short.

  • Bounds Green Station2.5 km short of the end 18
  • Bowes Road3.1 km short of the end 5
  • Peace Close8.2 km short of the end 4
  • St Andrew's Church0.8 km short of the end 3
  • Colney Hatch Lane0.5 km short of the end 3
  • Elsewhere along the route 8

towards Cockfosters Station

Last week, 15 of 366 journeys (4%) were turned short.

  • Southgate Station3.9 km short of the end 12
  • Bounds Green Station7.0 km short of the end 1
  • Hail & Ride Avenue Road2.5 km short of the end 1
  • Southgate Asda3.4 km short of the end 1

Each place is the last stop the bus was timed at before it turned round, with the typical distance it fell short of the end of the line. The five busiest are named; the rest are counted together.

Compared with TfL's own figures

QuarterTfLOurs
2025/26 Q313 Sept – 2 Jan 202675% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202669% on timeno figure

TfL's figures come from its own tracking equipment and its own timetable; mine are computed from the buses' public position feed. They are the same calculation on independent data, so they should broadly agree and move together rather than match exactly.

About this data
Data collected, week ending 17 October 2026
100% of the week. This is the share of the week for which we hold bus location data at all, across the whole of London rather than for this route. A week under 60% is not published; under 90% it is marked as thin.
Departures observed
  • Queens Avenue: 262 departures seen
  • Cockfosters Station: 259 departures seen
A guide to how much evidence sits behind this week's figures, not a measure of the service.
How it is measured
Every day, 05:00–23:59. On time means leaving no more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late. A day with less than four hours of data collected shows no daily figure. How these figures are made.
Gaps in the record for this period (39)

Most recent first. Hover a week on the chart and it will name the gap behind it. Most are a few missing hours on an otherwise ordinary day.

  • 17 Sept 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 28 Aug 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 29 Jul – 26 Aug 2026 no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 28 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 11:00-23:59: no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 7 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-21:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 2 Jul – 3 Jul 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 07:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 7 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 18:00-19:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 16:00-16:59, 18:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 27 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 21 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 20 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 28 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Feb – 27 Feb 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 16:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 30 Jan 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Dec 2025 no bus service on Christmas Day
  • 23 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 24 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 17:00-17:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Nov – 16 Nov 2025 no London vehicles in the national feed — TfL's export to BODS was down (the volunteer archive itself was collecting)
  • 14 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59, 13:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 31 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 10 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 3 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 19 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 1 Aug 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 18 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jul – 7 Jul 2025 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 18:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-14:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Jun 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)

For latest timetable and route information, see TfL's official page.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; bus data via the DfT Bus Open Data Service and Transport for London. Figures are computed from observed bus positions, every day, 05:00–23:59. How these figures are made. Bus positions from the Department for Transport’s Bus Open Data Service (BODS); the Department for Transport cannot warrant the accuracy or quality of the data published there. Positions before September 2026 come from the Bus Open Data archive generously built and kept by Open Innovations, with thanks. Route lines and stops: Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016. Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]. These pages and the bus replay are built independently from open data: Transport for London, the Department for Transport and the bus operators had no part in making them, and none of them endorses them. Not for planning a journey.