LT's future: trouble
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eason tickets valid for over a feek until after its 100 per cent ares increase on March 21. It ays it cannot afford to go on elling post-March 21 fares at le current low rates.
Meanwhile, a Conservative 01P has backed LT chairman Sir eter Masefield's call for the unertaking to be transferred to a .ansport policy board under Deartment of Transport control, nd for the concept of a f1-for1 revenue support system to be onsidered by the Government. In a motion which he has thled in the House of Cornions, City of Westminster and addington MP John Wheeler
says that the cheap fares sought by LT can best be achieved by running the undertaking outside direct political control.
He said that LT management would then be able to run an efficient service with correct manning levels, and a mileage schedule "consistent with the concept of a reasonably balanced public service". It was wrong, he argues, for the Greater London Counbil to have imposed such a sizeable burden on ratepayers.