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It’s push-back the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades at the London Transit Commission.

Londoners objecting to increased bus service in their neighbourhood are expected to show up at its board meeting Wednesday in numbers not seen in 20 years.

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At issue is a sweeping set of changes – the final instalment in a broader five-year strategy intended to increase and expand transit service in the city, straightening out some winding routes, adding new ones, and deleting others – that have fired up residents along the new and expanded bus paths.

Dozens of route changes are being recommended to the transit commission Wednesday, but the opposition is to a few in the north end of the city.

“We’ve never really encountered this before,” London Transit Commission (LTC) general manager Kelly Paleczny said of the large volume of presentation requests. Nine people are scheduled to speak to the transit commission.