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LT to ask Roy Jenkins for help with hooligans
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HOME SECRETARY Roy Jenkins is to be asked by London Transport to persuade magistrates to take tougher action on bus thugs. The move follows a meeting of bus delegates from LT garages at the Transport and General Workers' Union. The meeting heard of a new and simpler warning system which the driver could activate from a cab switch. When operated the vehicle's lights and horn would be operated.
Mr Ralph Bennett, deputy chairman and managing director (buses) of LT, said: "We shall ask the Home Secretary to get magistrates to take a tougher line. "A TGWU official, Charles Young, said: "f10 fines are not enough. We want to see adequate punishment meted Out."
The meeting took place before the weekend when bus crews from two LT garages held a 24-hour strike in protest against recent incidents of hooliganism and violence to crews on recent late-night Saturday buses.