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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Sadiq Khan has pledged to create a new London bus company which would look at bringing routes into public ownership. The Labour candidate for City Hall, who is campaigning for a record third term, announced he will launch a new transport firm to review public bus ownership after three decades. Labour says the capital’s bus network of 675 routes is currently operated by 16 privately-run bus firms – and that under Khan’s new policy, once contracts expire public ownership under the new operator would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Khan said he was “delighted to confir…

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