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Counties newspapers have been making great play with the travel situation around London in recent weeks, not least in Kent where both London Transport and the management of London Country have been moved to make public replies. I was pleased to see that they made little attempt to paper over the cracks: they accepted that services had been
pretty bad, but were able to offer the genuine hope that the vehicle and spares situation looked like improving enough to restore some of the cuts and improve the reliability.
Particular wrath had been aroused by the withdrawal of the very long-established Green Line 701 service from Dartford to Victoria, but the management pointed out that the service had lost no less than E100,000 a year and that the county authorities have refused a grant to support it.
I can understand the