City of London Transport (or CLT for short) is British transport company from London, England.
Information[]
City of London Transport was founded on July 3rd 2000. It is a public transport company and provides most of the public transport in the city, with only a few private companies around. CLT owns buses, trains, tubes, trams, coaches and some taxis, though taxis are mainly owned by private companies instead of one parent company. CLT routes cover all of London, from the the slums of the South to the wealthy West, it also covers the nitty infested North and the eccentric trendy East. The company is governed by the Mayor of London, and all the decisions made are made by aforementioned mayor. The CLT run all the train services. They also run Coaches, Canals, London Taxis/Cabs and Rent-A-Ride services, though they are less popular as private companies still manage those ways of transport.
History[]
CLT was founded on July 3rd 2000 after Mayor John Cornerstone won a Bar brawl with British-Conservative MP, Andrew Fuller, who was against CLT. Also around this time, many private transport companies began to fade out as corporate companies began to show up and take over the transport business, these companies would then be bought out by CLT, who would then turn them into CLT services such as, London Underground, Tramlink and DLR. CLT replaced London-Travel co., the head of transport from 1912-1999. Buses were the first service CLT took over, in which they managed the Bus companies, then they took over Underground, then Overground and created CLT Tramlink in March 2003 and CLT Quick Railway in January 2007.
Transportation owned[]
CLT own 85% of all public transport running through London and the outskirts of the City, they include.
- Buses
- Underground
- Overground
- Tramlink
- QRW
- Coaches
- Taxis/Cabs
- Rent-A-Ride