LT buses out of date
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SIR Horace Cutler, leader ol the Greater London Council has publicly attacked Londor Transport's bus operation in London Evening Standard.
The "concept of the London bus network" was described af "50 years out of date," and h( mentioned some bus route which are nearly 30 miles long Some cover common sections and leave other areas devoid o: services, and he claims tha! not enough note is taken of th( social needs of localities.
Sir Horace dismissed th( idea that traffic managemen and priority schemes such at bus lanes could significant13 help buses overcome traffic congestion. He said that bu! lanes work only in limited an prescribed circumstances an then "only at the considerable expense of other road users."
He said that the GLC wil take a lot of convincing tha. there is any ready mad( congestion-cutting solution.