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Road works blamed for slump in capital’s bus patronage

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

07 March 2016
TfL has curtailed some bus routes in response to congestion
TfL has curtailed some bus routes in response to congestion

 

Transport for London has blamed roadworks and rising road traffic volumes for a slump in bus passenger numbers. 

Figures for the four most recent four-week periods of 2015/16 show that, in each period, bus patronage was between eight and ten million below levels in the corresponding periods in 2014/15. 

Leon Daniels, TfL’s managing director, surface transport, blamed deteriorating service reliability, “which can be largely attributed to a combination of increased traffic...

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