Lynne Featherstone

Stakeholders meeting for the 603 bus route. TfL are going to be reviewing the route’s success and viability and possible expansion to a full service in the summer. I have a slight dispute with them in that the email I had received from Peter Hendy (TfL supremo on this) implies that the review will be ongoing until August/September and on that basis I am encouraging people to send in views to Customer Services at TfL of which Peter has said they will take notice as it is a criteria for judging the success etc of the route. The officer at the meeting wants them in now. I manage to persuade him to give us an extra three weeks – not enough – but better than nothing.

There is still a great deal of disagreement about how TfL assess the viability of the route and expansion proposals which I won’t bore you with. They are wrong and the campaigners and me are right! We all know how much a full service is needed and what it will enable people to do without a car. They argue it’s no more or less needed than any other route that local people want anywhere in London. The campaign goes on!