London Transport News
March
- Blackwall tunnel to only close for three more weekends.
- Staff recognised at London Bus Awards 2011
- Essential escalator works to begin at Holborn for six weeks
February
- East London Line extension to Highbury opens three months early
- Barclays Cycle Hire wins Transport Category of Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
- East London Transit celebrates first anniversary
- 'Good times' artwork by Eva Rothschild appears on Pocket tube map cover
- Officers from the Metropolitan Police Cycle Task Force target bike thieves and returned 12 stolen bicycles to their owners
- Transport for London assumes responsibility for key Olympic transport plans
- Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations receive major upgrades to increase capacity
- Northern Line not to call at Tottenham Court Road April to November.
- Oyster main ticket for National Rail passengers
- Closures London Bridge bus station allow for Borough rail project. Facelift of London Bridge bus station also begins.
- Drivers urged to check before they travel through the Blackwall tunnel
- Taxi fares increase 2.7percent to meet increased running costs
- Automatic Train Operation installed to most of Jubilee line
- Barclays Cycle Hire customers cycle to the moon and back 13 times in the first six months
January
- Work on Henlys Corner junction improvement scheme to begin in February 2011
- New trams proposed for Croydon Tramlink
- New ticket office opening times on London Underground
- Sites of 400+ collisions will see enforced average speed cameras beginning with the A13
- London Overground rated as more frequent, reliable and welcoming under TfL
- New Low Emission Zone standards for 72000 larger vans and mini-buses
- Christmas crackdown on illegal taxi drivers see 177 arrests
- Traffic restrictions in place at A40 Gypsy Corner for vital utilities work
- Sponsorship deal on TfL oyster wallets agreed
- Works begins to replace Victoria tube's 42 year old escalators for 2012
- Improvement scheme on Tottenham Hale thoroughfare begins
- Increasing numbers using Barclays Cycle hire, especially on Barclays Cycle Superhighways
- Latimer Road station closes for three months for engineering works
- London Taxi and Private Hire removes the initial talk in 'the Knowledge' for applicants, replaced with an information pack.
For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)
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- Many, many apologies for not having a February edition. I ran into computer troubles and whilst i was editing around that time, i did not have time to do the newsletter until mid or late February. Hope that can be forgiven. Here is the March edition.
- It is sad to see that Kbthompson (talk · contribs) passed away in mid-December. Condolences to his many family and friends.
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