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LONDON TRANSPORT bus se vices are to be cut by about te per cent from the end of July a part of the economy package a tached to last month's 100 N cent fare increase.
LT says that demand has fa len by 20 per cent since the far increase. It at present runs aboi 95 per cent of its scheduled ar nual 201 million bus miles. Wit reduced demand and the nee to operate within an agreed buc get, LT's new schedules are ft 172 million miles for which hopes to provide a 100 per cer service.
Only 17 of LT's 350 bus route are to be withdrawn and nin new ones will be introduce( Only 20 miles of LT's 1700 mil network will lose services altc gether, although some will los evening or Sunday services. Si) teen routes are to be converte to one-man operation. LT e)4 pects that its bus fleet will b cut by 700 to 800 buses.