The London Transport Board was the organisation responsible for public transport (except main-line trains) in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

, England, and its environs from 1963 to 1969. In common with all London transport authorities from 1933 to 2000, the public name and operational brand of the organisation was London Transport.

History

The London Transport Board (LTB) was established on 1 January 1963 pursuant to the Transport Act 1962 and replaced the

London Transport Executive The London Transport Executive was the organisation responsible for public transport in Greater London, England between 1948 and 1962. In common with all London transport authorities from 1933 to 2000, the public name and operational brand o ...

(LTE) upon the dissolution of the British Transport Commission. It was an independent statutory undertaking reporting directly to the Minister of Transport, whose responsibilities were similar to those of the LTE, but with the addition of some railway lines previously the responsibility of

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ways. The first Chairman was Alexander Valentine, who had been the Chairman of the LTE. The LTB was responsible for the

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and for bus and coach services within the London Passenger Transport Area, an area with a radius of about 30 miles from

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established when the

London Passenger Transport Board The London Passenger Transport Board was the organisation responsible for local public transport in London and its environs from 1933 to 1948. In common with all London transport authorities from 1933 to 2000, the public name and brand was Londo ...

was formed in 1933. Services were generally maintained and not cut as elsewhere in the country, as train services were under the Beeching cuts. The board was responsible for the Bus Reshaping Plan in 1966, a comprehensive programme of changes to bus services. By 1970 the roads in London had become so congested that the Greater London Development Plan included in its scope policy to reduce dependence on the car. On 1 January 1970 responsibility for public transport within Greater London passed to the

Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 198 ...

(GLC) under the Transport (London) Act 1969, with the ''London Transport'' brand retained by the GLC. Bus services outside the GLC area and Green Line Coaches were passed to a new company,

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, formed on 1 January 1970 as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company.GLC and London Transport '' Buses'' issue 177 December 1969 page 515

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* * * {{Authority control British Transport Commission Defunct transport authorities in London Government agencies established in 1963 Intermodal transport authorities in the United Kingdom 1960s in London 1963 establishments in England 1969 disestablishments in England