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My name is Leon Daniels, I'm the Managing Director for Surface Transport at Transport for London...
and I'm approaching my third anniversary in this job.
Well, we're driving today on route 148, which is the latest of our routes to be converted to the new Routemaster.
It runs between Camberwell Green and White City.
We've just gone underneath the railway at Waterloo.
It's pouring with rain, the most atrocious conditions that you might expect to want to drive a bus in London.
The rain always makes the traffic much worse and its Friday afternoon, so we've got everything going against us today.
The biggest challenge in my job, we have to keep London moving, so whilst we have lots of exciting projects,...
lots of long term plans, improvements to make for London.
What really makes me proud at work is we have a most sensational team of people.
That's the experts that design and engineer our road networks,...
the traffic signals, the computer controls that our people run to keep the traffic moving.
And when things happen I know that we've got the best brains in the country working on them.
I can remember coming up to London with my father when I was five...
and they had a thing in those days called a Red Rover ticket for five shillings, two and six for children...
and we would travel around London using the bus network, and I fell in love with London...
and I was determined to live here, so I just became fascinated by how the whole thing worked.
We're just arriving now, into the terminus at White City.
We've managed to have got all of our passengers safely to where they wanted to go.
Reasonably briskly without causing any concerns and having just arrived,...
we can have five minutes break.