TfL abandons plan to reverse capital’s bus ridership decline

Andrew Forster

31 March 2017

The capital’s bus use is projected to fall 2.3% next year

Transport for London has dropped plans to grow the capital’s bus patronage and is instead planning for demand to fall 2.3% next year.

TfL’s five-year business plan published last December said that, to achieve its financial milestones, public transport use would have to increase in the short-run, “primarily by attracting customers back to the bus service” (LTT 16 Dec 16).

The plan projected that bus patronage would rise 1.4% in 2017/18 to 2.310 billion, and reach...

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