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are I suggest that the crisis of adition foreseen by the keen eye of The Hawk" (CM May 17) with the ivent of an against-the-flow bus lane i Buckingham Palace Road may have aen overstated?
Even if the Guards found they could o longer be six abreast as they 'arched from Chelsea Barracks to ucking ham Palace, their many :Imirers should be confident that lilitary resource would be equal to the .:casion without adding appreciably i the traffic problem.
On the other hand, a lot of people avel by bus and the advantages for iem which the new lane will bring are t least worth a mention. It will save on werage more than five minutes' lurney time per -bus during the lorning peak, and give smaller, but onetheless significant, savings at [her times. It will also reduce the disince each bus has to travel by about a Liarter-of-a-mile, will enable bus assengers to board and alight at :ctoria Station — instead of 200 ards away, as now — and will prode a direct bus link between the r.i
ach and railway stations.
The Hawk quotes a cost of over 8,000 but this figure applies to the hole of GLC scheme for the area and not all attributable to the bus lane hich will save some £35,000 a year bus operating costs and passengers' e.
F. E. WILKINS Chief Public Relations Officer London Transport