• IF I hear the ad which says “to the Mayor of London every journey matters!” just one more time, I swear I will hurl my radio across the room and smash it. It is such a patent lie!

Right across London, our buses are being systematically reduced in service frequency. And, yes, we all know about public service cuts, but a Labour mayor should not be allowing these to impact on the most vulnerable.

Buses are still the cheapest form of public transport and for the elderly, for school children, those on low incomes, parents with babies and toddlers and all those with reduced mobility, they are a lifeline.

Here in West Hampstead, where we have been denied an accessible tube station for so long, buses are the best alternative. In the autumn, without warning, the C11 (which is our vital east-west link to schools and hospitals) was cut by one-and-a-half buses an hour.

This was done with no consultation as was the case with a number of other bus routes across London. And the next list for cuts by stealth includes a new proposal to cut back on the frequency of the 328 – another vital link running through north west London.

And why have we heard no protests from Camden’s Labour council? Lack of consultation by the Labour mayor? Or does no one care about NW6/2?

Well I and my fellow Liberal Democrats and a large number of concerned residents do care. Please sign our petition at www.camdenlibdems.org.uk and show that we, at least, think every journey does matter!

CLLR FLICK REA
Liberal Democrat, Fortune Green ward