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Description: | Eric Midwinter was Chairman of the London Regional Passengers Committee (L.R.P.C.) when the bus tendering process began in the 1980s.
It started in 1985 with the creation of the Tendered Bus Division. London Transport (L.T.) operators had to compete with private sector operators to run bus routes. Tendering was completed in 1994-5 when L.T. sold off its bus routes.
Tendering and competition was intended to improve the quality of service while maintaining reasonable costs. Buses are now tendered but the private companies involved have agreed on some issues. They all use the same fares throughout Greater London and use the distinctive red colour for the buses.
Here Eric recalls what was happening at the time. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Public Services Transport | Temporal: | 1980-1989 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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