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A new manager has been Light in to sort out the longrung problems that BexH.'s has suffered since its ich last January. The generianager and operations lager have been moved out pther jobs within London es.
Ian Mecham, previously dimal traffic manager for don Buses' Central Traffic ision, has been named the r general manager, assisted mother new Bexleybus ret Alan Brown. Gary Laure and Julian Lindfield, the [ler general and operations lagers, have been redered to other jobs.
hilly three weeks after the Ieybus launch, drivers at garage threatened to te.
February, 200 drivers ed a two-day walkout over ly dispute. In the same month 5,000 signatures were collected in the borough, complaining about services.
In March, drivers walked out over working conditions and in August there was another stoppage in protest against the rising violence that drivers were facing.
Bexley Council is also considering serving the bus garage with an enforcement notice after complaints from residents over noise and fumes. London Buses says: "Alan Mecham has been with Bexleybus for two weeks now. We are hoping his experience will help solve the numerous problems we have had with Bexleybus. At the moment, it is experiencing a high turnover of staff which is affecting the quality of the service. Mecham has been consulting staff and he should be putting forward proposals for the operation in the near future."