Community leaders have welcomed a pledge by the Mayor of London to extend a bus route from Golders Green to Stamford Hill amid heightened safety concerns among the Jewish population.
Speaking at a Jewish community hustings event, Sadiq Khan announced that, if he is re-elected to the role next month, Transport for London will extend the current 210 route to provide a single decker bus that travels directly between Stamford Hill and to Golders Green.
Currently, passengers who wish to travel by bus from one location to the other must take the 210 to Finsbury Park and then change to the 253 or 254 bus toward Stamford Hill.
Calls for TfL to provide a direct link between Stamford Hill and Golders Green – allowing passengers to remain onboard for the duration of their journey rather than wait in public for a connecting bus – were renewed in 2023 amid heightened stress and anxiety due to a surge in antisemitic hate crimes recorded in the UK following the October 7 terror attack on Israel.
