Youth organisations have criticised the deputy chair of London’s transport committee after he said he would recommend ending free transport for under-18s in the capital. Roger Evans, deputy chair of the London Assembly’s Transport Committee and a Conservative Assembly member, made the comments in his web log, http://www.city-hall.blogspot.com, last week. About 365,000 under-18s have free bus travel, but London mayor Ken Livingstone, who introduced the £55m scheme, told Assembly members last month that 2,033 passes had been withdrawn from under-16s for a variety of reasons. Evans said: “Given the cost of this concession, the levels of antisocial behaviour, and the...