LT's Speedbus plans
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• London Transport's plans for a network of Speedbus routes — limited stop services using reserved lanes — is expected to be approved by the Greater London Council next week. The plans, described in CM last week, are being recommended by the GLC's transport committee. "In principle" approval is likely to be given by the full council at its meeting on July 24..
Once approval is given detail planning of the traffic measures necessary to implement the bus lanes will begin. The first service is expected to run in October 1974 with the remaining nine routes coming into use within the following few months. Meanwhile, a GLC spokesman denied a story in the Daily Telegraph this week that parking at meters in London before 10.30 am would be banned. He knew of no plan which incorporated this provision. However, a five-year, £5m programme of providing park-and-ride car parks at suburban rail stations is continuing.
The GLC announced this week that it is considering converting King's Road. Chelsea, to a bus and taxi precinct on the lines of the Oxford Street scheme. A detailed plan. involving the creation of several one-way streets, is to be drawn up for a final decision in October.