London Transport Board

The London Transport Board was the organisation responsible for public transport in London, UK, and its environs from 1963-1970. In common with all London transport authorities from 1933 to 2000, the public name and operational brand of the organisation was London Transport.

The organisation was created in 1963 by the Transport Act 1962 and replaced the London Transport Executive. It reported directly to the Minister of Transport. There was a severe lack of investment during this period caused by policy favouring the primacy of the motor car. Despite the lack of investment services were not cut as elsewhere in the country, under the Beeching Axe.

The London Transport Board was responsible for the London Underground and for bus and coach services within the London Passenger Transport Area, an area with a radius of about 30 miles from London established when the London Passenger Transport Board was formed in 1933. In 1969, bus services outside the area of the Greater London Council, together with Green Line Coaches, were passed to a new company, London Country Bus Services, which in 1970 became part of the National Bus Company.

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. In 1970 responsibility for public transport was passed to the Greater London Council under the Transport (London) Act 1969, with the London Transport brand retained by the GLC.

See also

• Sir Alexander Valentine - Chairman, 1962 to 1965
• Sir Maurice Holmes - Chairman, 1965 to 1969

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