John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

On 15 Jan, 06:21, (Neil Williams)
wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:03:10 -0800 (PST), Mizter T

wrote:
Two things to say here. Firstly, you speak confidently of what is
being proposed in London - please do tell me where I can find out
even some bare-bones outlines of the these purported proposals,
because I don't know about them.

Sorry, I'm perhaps being a bit confusing. I was just going on
comments earlier in the thread.


And sorry if I came across as rather adversarial - that wasn't really
the intention!

I think we shall have to wait for the new Mayor's Transport Strategy
to know what his (and his team's) thinking is on the matter, as he
hasn't really provided even as much of a hint as to what it is thus
far, apart from his vague talk during the election campaign and then
the increase in frequency of the X26 from hourly to half-hourly.

I'm not sure whether this is the West London Transport Strategy which has
been bubbling away for a decade or so.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/acro...la_w.html#WLTS


For just a moment there I thought you were joking that the once a week
Ealing via Kensington to Wandsworth Rd 'ghost bus' (the original topic
of this thread!) formed the basis of the West London Transport
Strategy!

Jokes aside, that's most interesting. I don't think there really have
been any official pronouncements from the Mayor or TfL on this issue,
and thus far going by what has been said, or rather the lack of what's
been said, it's difficult to get much of a grasp on what any upcoming
plans might involve. But the WLTS does serve as a reminder that there
are a whole host of proposals and initiatives out there, some of which
have been well researched and developed over a number of years. It's
an obvious point, but I'll make it anyway - tapping into some of these
longstanding plans could at least help to form part of the basis of
some of the future transport policies, such as that concerning express
bus routes.

I note the West London Transport Strategy is alive and well, having
been updated in 2005 - it is a 'key programme' of the West London
Alliance, which is a joint initiative of six London Boroughs that
exists to promote West London. See:
http://www.westlondonalliance.org/Page/Transport
http://www.westlondonalliance.org/Page/AboutWLA

The WLTS is similar to other partnership bodies such as Seltrans and
SWELTRAC, except that it resides within the West London Alliance
rather than existing as a specialist transport concern on its own
right as the latter two bodies do.
http://www.seltrans.co.uk/
http://www.sweltrac.org.uk/