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Description: | Established in 1965, the Greater London Council (G.L.C.) oversaw strategic planning across London's 32 boroughs.
It also had financial responsibility for London Transport from 1970, and allocated large sums to improving public transport. The high levels of taxation and spending were frequently unpopular with central government.
The Conservative government in 1983 resolved to get rid of the G.L.C. In 1985, a government Act was passed to abolish it, even though polls showed that only 16% of Londoners wanted the G.L.C. to go.
This photo from 1984 shows a London bus with a poster in support of keeping the G.L.C. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics | Temporal: | 31/12/1983 - 01/01/1985 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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