London cannot afford a bus service slowdown

Road traffic congestion is damaging the capital’s most important form of public transport with a variety of ill-effectsAll over Britain, buses are slowing down. They’re doing it in Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Hull and most of all they’re doing it in London. Over the past year, speeds on a third of London’s bus routes have fallen by more than 5%, reducing some of them to walking speed: route 11, which runs between Fulham Broadway and Liverpool Street stati