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Night buses

from Cathy (cathyvpreece@aol.com)

South London Press

Night buses are being improved all the time

Dec 20 2002

THE driver of the night bus who reporter Oscar Mortali describes in the 'Seeing Red' column "Hard work getting home on the night bus", (South London Press, December 6) took exactly the right action by not leaving Trafalgar Square overloaded.

I'm disappointed that Oscar's father had a long journey home on this occasion and I hope that he will continue to use our services.

We are making night buses more extensive and more and more people are using them - last year 19million trips were made on night buses alone across the capital.

Under the Mayor's transport strategy we've made them cheaper, increased frequencies and improved security through more vehicles with CCTV, lighting at bus stops and introduced a dedicated uniformed policing presence on 26 key routes.

South London is now served by more night buses than ever before - since autumn 2000 we've introduced brand new services to Lewisham, Clapham, Crystal Palace, Tooting, Camberwell and Deptford. From early in the new year, passengers travelling from central London to Kennington, Brixton and Streatham will be served by a new night bus N133.

If your bus is full, it shouldn't be too long until the next one. The driver Oscar describes was not stubborn at all but took exactly the right action to make sure passengers had a safe journey.

Peter Hendy
Managing Director of Surface Transport
Transport for London

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