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[email protected] · March 21st 12, 01:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

There's a whole long history as to why the arrangements in London
turned out as it have - it's a legacy of many things. What I'm less
clear on is how much of a debate there was, if any, about a
comprehensive 'London PTE' that would include rail back in the late
60's when the PTA/PTE concept was devised and the empowering
legislation, the 1968 Transport Act, was formulated.

At the time of the 1968 Transport Act which first created PTAs/PTEs London
Transport was still Government-owned but had been separated from British
Rail when the London Transport Board was created and the BTC abolished in
1963 or thereabouts. In 1970 municipal control of public transport was
returned for the first time since 1933 but only of parts of the LTB. Country
buses were hived off, initially to the National Bus Company and privatised
after 1985.

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Colin Rosenstiel