GLC's zonal call
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AN URGENT review of the prospects for zonal fares throughout London's public transport system has been called for by the Greater London Council's planning and communications policy committee.
The GLC want to see a major programme of simplification of LT bus fares over the next few years and has requested that LT bring forward firm proposals to introduce suburban flat fares in the spring.
Flat fare experiments in the Harrow and Havering areas of outer London introduced last February have been successful in promoting additional travel, maintaining revenue income, and speeding up one-man operated buses.
The review should, says the GLC, be carried out jointly by the GLC and LT and will cover how a zonal system will apply to bus, tube and British Rail local networks, legislation for penalty fares, and an examination of the bus route structure with a particular regard to minimising transfers from rail.