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Medley Wrote:

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> Hardly Tory privatisation Sue


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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if memory serves Labour came to power in 1997?


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/london-buses-to-be-privatised-next-year-1561527.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_London_bus_services

Hope you can mention the extension of route 63 in this meeting, Renata - it would plug several gaps.



Renata Hamvas Wrote:

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> I'm meeting Val Shawcross (GLA) this afternoon at

> 3pm at Honor Oak Park Station to

> discuss/investigate the problems with the buses in

> the area.

> Renata

  • 2 weeks later...
Normally when new Transport hubs open other public transport is realigned to make the most of it. Yet when the London Ovwerground opened at Honor Oak As far As I know NOTHING was changed. Sure either extending a brockly bus to Peckham or the 63 to HOnor Oak station is so obvious that any traffic integrator would do it as a matter ofcourse. I would certainly use it if there was bus there. The hill and my Arhritus wont let me use it at the moment.

Integrated transport? But this is Britain!





the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> Normally when new Transport hubs open other public

> transport is realigned to make the most of it. Yet

> when the London Ovwerground opened at Honor Oak As

> far As I know NOTHING was changed. Sure either

> extending a brockly bus to Peckham or the 63 to

> HOnor Oak station is so obvious that any traffic

> integrator would do it as a matter ofcourse. I

> would certainly use it if there was bus there. The

> hill and my Arhritus wont let me use it at the

> moment.

We live at the end of Dunstans Road and use Honor Oak Park every day (I work in Canary Wharf, my partner near London Bridge). It's only a 15-20 minute walk, but even for relatively young, fit people that hill can be painful! An extension to the 63 route would certainly make our lives much easier.

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