London’s bus budget under scrutiny

Former transport minister and Transport for London board member Steven Norris has called for cuts to the capital’s £650m bus budget

The success of London’s bus network in recent years is well known. Under former mayor Ken Livingstone, between 2000 and 2008 passenger kilometres rose by 74% to reach 7.7bn each year. However, this has come at considerable cost, with operating subsidy for the capital’s bus network rising to £653m in 2007/08, a significant increase on the annual subsidy of £41m in 1999/2000 and well up on the historic lows seen in the mid 1990s.

But London’s bus network is about to...

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