4 JANUARY 1957, Page 27

TIME OUT OF JOINT

It is at last possible to travel about London quite quickly in a bus. Or at least it would be possible to do so if the London Transport Execu- tive could shorten the time a bus is meant to take on its journey. As it is, one nearly always gets into a bus which is in front of its schedule and which marks time at all official slops and lingers longingly at traffic signals waiting for the lights to go red.