Lib Dem Leader and GLA member Lynne Featherstone has secured a vital meeting this week with Mayor Ken Livingstone in an effort to put back on track plans for the new bus route between Muswell Hill and Swiss Cottage via Hampstead and Highgate. The delegation is to meet Mayor Livingstone at City Hall this Wednesday. It will be led by long serving bus campaigner Keith Tarn and will include key members of other local groups, such as the Highgate Society and Haringey Buswatch, who have also long supported the route.

Pressure has been growing on Ken Livingstone to intervene in the campaign for the route since Transport for London’s recent controversial attempt to shelve the plans. There has been a huge response from Muswell Hill and Highgate residents to the local Lib Dem campaign on the issue. Locals have been writing in large numbers to the Mayor to express their continued support for the route.

Lynne Featherstone comments:

“This meeting will be a vital opportunity to impress upon Ken Livingstone how essential the new route is for Muswell Hill, Highgate and Hampstead. We will be urging the Mayor to overturn TfL’s ludicrous decision and to make real his promise to support the route when he was elected three years ago. Ken should be backing buses, and the campaign must have his full support.”