London Transport Board
The London Transport Board (LTB ) was a transport authority, which was responsible for public transport in and around London from 1963 to 1969. Like all transport authorities in the years 1933 to 2000, she stepped under the brand name of London Transport in appearance.
History
The LTB was born on January 1, 1963 entry into force of the Transport Act 1962 and replaced the London Transport Executive (LTE ) from. He was an independent public body, which was directly under the British Ministry of Transport.
The mid-1960s put the LTB before the so-called Reshaping plan for the London bus, which the increase in costs and staff shortages through the increased use of one-man buses should meet (even in inner-city areas and in population centers outside of it). In addition many lines should be shortened and focused on the use of priorities. Therefore, the use of Eindeckbussen with high passenger capacity (very large amount of standing room ) with unit prices (flat fares ) and use of machines was designed for passenger clearance. 1966 was intended to save 13,000 Schaffner services in the sequence. The use schaffner loose double-decker buses at the time was not yet allowed, in particular the trade unions were against it. Nevertheless, there were experiments with new double-decker buses with double doors front only the driver ( Leyland Atlantean / Daimler Fleetline ), the latter drove in off-peak time blocked off and stairs to the upper deck in the one-man transport.
In the city, the Red -Arrow - express bus system ( 500 line number range) has been introduced, whose lines linking the main railway stations directly with the City of London and Westminster. The Eindeckerbusse employed here AEC Merlin series (LTB Code MBA) had only the raised area behind the center door seating. The area in front was lower (then low-entry bus with only one stage in the bus ) and from the front to enter by two parallel turnstiles, in which one (then sixpence pieces) had objected to release matching coins. About the wheel arch there was a money exchange machine. Up to the exit door in the middle of the standing area was with the handrails. End of 1967, London Transport 66 372 employees, including 30 151 in the bus sector, 11,177 in the railway sector, 19,814 in the workshop area and 1,814 in the general administration. There were 73 bus depots with a total of 6520 buses, of which 161 are one-man cars, 4031 subway cars, 21 depots and railway workshops, 227 stations with 200 escalators and 92 lifts.
On January 1, 1970, with the entry into force of the Transport ( London) Act 1969 transferred responsibility for public transport in Greater London to the Greater London Council (GLC ), the bus outside the GLC area and the Green Line coaches to the newly founded society of London Country bus Services ( subsidiary of the National bus Company ).