Talk:London Dial-a-Ride

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Origin
I was asked to take on the accounts of what was then the Greenwich Association of the Disabled in about 1985, because what had previously been a simplistic bookkeeping operation was about to spin off the Dial-a-Ride service and they needed some accounting knowledge to do so. GAD had started a local transport service in the late 1970s, with a grant from the Local Authority (and possibly the GLC, although that was history by the time I arrived). The aim of GAD-About was to offer GAD members equivalent transport to that available to the general public, primarily within the borough, at the same fares London Transport charges. It's success attracted a wider aspiration than fit within GAD's remit, so a duplicate operation, Dial-a-Ride, was created. As I was aware that London Transport might be privatised, and therefore allowing for easy roll-out to more divisional/franchised operation, I included scope for scalability in it, and am extremely pleased to see it in robust health forty years after its birth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.9.109 (talk) 01:30, 16 August 2020 (UTC)