Devolved transport powers for mayors represent exciting prospect, but traffic and costs are still a major hurdle
Can you make everything better with a bus? “I can’t speak for everyone,” says Janet McGlone, 74, onboard the SL3 Superloop service from Thamesmead shopping centre on her way home to Bexleyheath in south-east London. “But this has been a godsend for us.”
The Superloop, a psychedelic-branded network of express orbital buses dreamed up by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, at the height of opposition to Ulez, has been running for just over a year, attempting to provide better public transport in the capital’s outer boroughs.
