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London Bus Schedules To Be Revised
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I ONDON TRANSPORT are to revise their bus and trolleybus schedules early in the new year to give more regular and dependable services during the present staff shortage. •
There will be no change in the amount of bus services operated, but timetables for the routes—now being run with many gaps owing. to .lack .of crews—are to be revised to bring them closer to the actual services now being run and thus avoid many gaps resulting from cut-out buses.
To achieve this, existing timetables will be reduced by amounts varying in accordance with the current staff position in different districts but averaging 4 per cent. This will not mean any reduction in services to the public because actual bus mileage now being run is more than 10 per cent, below that scheduled owing to shortage of crews.
Full use will continue to be made of voluntary overtime work by bus crews so as to run the greatest volume of service possible in the present staff conditiorw. There is a 15 per cent, staff shortage among London bus drivers and conductors. The increased wages and improved .conditions of service recently agreed should produce an improvement in the staff situation, but London Transport do not expect to make good the whole of such a large staff shortage in the near future.