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This transportation category is responsible for managing the bus network throughout London, largely by sub-contracting services to private sector bus operators. London's bus network is one of the largest and most comprehensive urban transport systems in the world. It plans routes, specifies service levels and monitors service quality of the bus services. The bus services are operated by private operators, which work under contract to London buses. It is also responsible for bus stations, bus stops and other support services.
Every weekday over 6,800 scheduled buses carry around six million passengers on over 700 different routes. Over the last few years there was growth in its network as evident in Bus usage growing at its fastest rate since 1946. Bus ridership also grew more than 38 per cent between 1999/00 and 2004/05 that by now, buses in London carry the highest number of passengers since 1968, worldwide. In the year to March 2005 alone, there were 1.79 billion passenger trips on the network. Clearly, bus mileage in London is higher than at any time since 1957, with 450 million km operated in 2004/5
The network, in an effort to respond to changes in London's growth and changing needs annually re-tender a fifth of the bus service. Along this, around half of the network is subject to some level of review.
London TfL decided that buses are the best option for increasing public transport capacity in the short-term. Initiatives are especially taken to make bus journeys as reliable, quick, convenient, comfortable, easy to use and as affordable as possible.
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