London Regional Transport
- London Regional Transport
London Regional Transport (LRT), commonly known as London Transport, was the organisation responsible for the public transport network in Greater London, UK from 1984-2000.
The organisation was created by the London Regional Transport Act 1984 and was under direct state control, reporting to the Secretary of State for Transport. It took over responsibility from the Greater London Council in 1984, two years before the GLC was formally abolished.
In 1985 London Underground Limited (LUL) was set up to manage the tube network as a wholly owned subsidiary of London Regional Transport.
In 1985 the operation of some bus services was put out to tender for the first time and, for a number of years, buses bearing a variety of different colour-schemes operated alongside those still operating in the traditional red livery. The variety of liveries was found to be confusing to tourists and non-Londoners expecting to find red-painted buses and, after lobbying from the tourist board, it became a requirement when contracts were retendered that bus liveries must be predominately red.
Upon privatisation of the main line railways, the Waterloo & City Line passed to the London Underground and LRT management in 1994.
LRT remained in control of public transport in London until 2000 when Transport for London, an agency of the newly-created Greater London Authority took over responsibility under the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
ee also
*History of transport in London (1933-2003)
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