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Speedbus routes Concession face major snags fare scheme
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MAJOR SNAGS lie ahead of London Transport's much publicized Speedbus system of continuous bus priority measures, following a decision by the Greater London Council. The scheme calls for long distances of priority measures over large sections of cross-London bus routes. At a GLC meeting last week Dame Evelyn Denington, chairman of the transport committee, said that there were serious problems affecting the Speedbus route proposals.
She said: "Feasibility studies indicate that the proposed measures could provide substantial benefits to bus passengers, but it is not possible to provide continuous routes without rerouteing other traffic and this in turn throws up unacceptable environmental disbenefit".
The studies have been carried out by consultants for the GLC on four routes: Hackney-Oxford Circus, Putney-Marble Arch, Waltham Cross-Oxford Circus and S ydenhamOxford Circus.
A spokesman for LT told CM this week that the only route which had been closely studied was that between Marble Arch and Hackney. He understood that the GLC had not intended to veto the whole scheme, although more snags seem to have cropped up since the idea was first considered