50% More London Bus Miles Lost
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'THE amount of London bus mileage L which had to be cancelled during the three weeks before Christmas was 50 per cent, greater than in 1958, London Transport said on Tuesday.
In the "pink zone" and the rather larger zone of special police control, conditions were much better. Bus journey times in. crossing these areas were 10-15 minutes less thanin the corresponding period of 1958. But,conditions were much worse than ever before outside these zones, ,notably in the City of London, the East End, King's Cross, Shoreditch, Hammersmith, Chelsea, the Borough and Vauxhall.
Overall, traffic congestion in the three weeks before Christmas caused the cancellation of the equivalent of some 30,000 bus trip's, compared with about 20,000 in 1958. Most of the mileage was lost in the fringe areas outside the "pink zone."