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Description: | This photo was taken at 9am during the bus strike of 1958 on the south side of Trafalgar Square. The photo shows grid-locked cars but not a single bus.
The strike was over busmen's pay and lasted for seven weeks, during which time there were no familiar red buses driving around London. There were however a few 'pirate' services run by private operators.
The strike had strike two main effects. One was to drive the public to seek alternative transport to buses; many never returned. The other was the subsequent withdrawal of lesser-used services. Because many people began to use the car to drive to work, London's congestion problems increased. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 20 Jun 1958 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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