London is not the rosy picture it looks from outside

In reply to Cllr Peter Davies (You Write last month), I get a bit fed up hearing about how Londoners should be grateful to Transport for London.

From the outside I am sure it looks a very rosy picture, but bus use in London has been in steady decline for a few years now and clearly TfL does not have a clue about what to do about it.

Bus travel only boomed in previous years because of an increase in population and the fact that many people had little choice other than to use buses. Nowadays, Uber and the like have given people a choice and they are voting with their feet.

Shiny new buses might look nice externally, but once inside they are rather bland, with no high specification seating, no free Wi-Fi and few buses have USB chargers.

Instead of using Fareham and Gosport as a comparison, I suggest to Cllr Davies that places like Brighton, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Reading would be a better comparison with London to show what can be achieved in a deregulated environment.

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