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40 routes. It is the step in implementing Ion Transport's plans to ove the capital's bus ser eater London Council's Ion Transport committee -man, Harold Mote, told a ing of the committee that changes would begin in T London first, for admintive reasons.
Le five point plan involves: implifying the mass of (end routeing and alterna routes to standardise Lees raking the times of buses y memorable with fixed utes past the hour time-.
e for buses with less Jent services n proving bus links with stations and other wellpopular destinations ducing bus mileage on 28 :es which duplicate pate rail services, to free cies and staff for areas a.r more pressure hortening five services to rove reliability where no nvenience will be caused. r Mote says that there will .eductions in services on e routes where passenger rand has fallen and he es that this will lead to uter reliability for ,engers.
e hopes that many of the ;ent cancellations caused staff shortages will be fiated by the new scheme. rough only 40 routes will ffected next month, it will ease to 84 by October.
he plan to make LT more ible is seen as part of the 1". conservative group's aci on election promises le a year ago, which inled an overhaul of the Ltal's public transport sys