On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:21:56 +0100, Dave
wrote:

The changes were announced back in March.

"To slash the time buses spend at stops, from this summer the few
remaining cash passengers will need to buy tickets before boarding in
London's West End. Starting in August more than 300 ticket machines will
serve all the stops in the West End used by 60 routes to enable
passengers to buy single journey or day pass tickets before getting on
the bus. This is expected to cut boarding times by more than 10 per
cent."

TfL conveniently seem to have forgotten about all the Routemasters
running in the West End, which don't suffer from the increased boarding
times of most OPO buses as they have a separate conductor performing
revenue duties...Ho hum...

Cya,

Barry