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The Enfield Dispatch website has further information about the SL1 Superloop bus decision . It highlights the absence of a stop near the North Middlesex Hospital, something requested by, among others, the hospital itself, Enfield Council, London Assembly member Joanne McCartney and the Enfield Transport Users Group.

Problems with accessing the North Mid by public transport are not new. Various buses do stop near or at the hospital, but the nearest trunk bus routes (34, 102, 144) have a stop which claims to be at the hospital, but is actually in Silver Street. Walking from the stop to the hospital involves a pedestrian underpass beneath the busy A406 (thankfully, now redecorated, but have the flooding problems been fixed?). For people using Silver Street station, campaigns for a proper pedestrian crossing using the "desire line" at the stretch of Sterling Way near the station (actually, once part of Silver Street) have not yet succeeded (but surely will eventually), so the walk is unnecessarily long and not very nice. And a lot of people risk their lives and do cross near the station.

Incidentally, readers who use the S6 to visit the hospital from Palmers Green may not be aware that the official "North Middlesex Hospital" stop in Silver Street is not actually the nearest place to get off the bus. There is hail and ride stop immediately after the bus turns left into Hazelbury Road, which reduces the walking distance significantly.