TfL gets green light to sign £1.5bn contract with Siemens for Piccadilly Line upgrade November 20, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) has signed a £1.5bn contract with Siemens to design and build a new fleet of Piccadilly Line trains after the High Court lifted a temporary restriction that had put it on hold. TfL first announced it was awarding Siemens with the contract in June, but its ability to sign the contract was put [...]
Train delays: TfL Rail hit with severe delays between Shenfield and Liverpool Street November 20, 2018 Severe delays hit TfL Rail this morning, causing commuters pain just a day after problems at a major London station led to rush hour chaos. Transport for London advised commuters to take an alternative route this morning if possible after a signal failure at Stratford led to severe delays between Shenfield and Liverpool Street. Commuters [...]
Waterloo chaos: South Western Railway tells commuters not to travel November 19, 2018 Commuters heading to London this morning have been told not to travel by rail operator South Western, after Network Rail engineering works overran this weekend. Stations at Working, Surbiton, Raynes Park and Earlsfield are all closed as a result, with no trains able to depart Wimbledon or Clapham Junction until the works conclude. South Western said [...]
Junk food adverts to be banned on London Underground to tackle growing child obesity November 16, 2018 Junk food adverts are set to be banned on the London Underground as well as at bus stops in a new measure to tackle increasing child obesity. Plans to introduce the ban across the Transport for London (TFL) network will be announced soon according to City Hall, once the London Mayor Sadiq Khan has fully studied [...]
London Assembly launches new probe into scrapped Garden Bridge project November 15, 2018 The Greater London Authority (GLA) is to investigate the scrapped £200m Garden Bridge project that was promoted under former mayor Boris Johnson. The GLA announced at an oversight committee this morning that it had set up a cross-party working group to scrutinise decisions on the Garden Bridge taken by the Garden Bridge Trust and Transport for London (TfL), [...]
TfL bosses stopped claiming expenses during the summer as the Elizabeth Line hit the rocks November 15, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) bosses did not claim any expenses over the summer while it was embroiled in troubles regarding the £15.4bn Elizabeth Line. From July to September, TfL bosses claimed no expenses for work-related activities such as travel costs, dinners and work mobile phones for the first time since 2013, the first year for which data is available. In 2013, [...]
New Crossrail boss to be paid £45,000 more than predecessor Simon Wright amid ongoing project troubles November 14, 2018 Incoming Crossrail boss Mark Wild is set to earn £415,000 – a £45,000 increase on the earnings of his predecessor, Simon Wright. Wild, the current managing director of the London Underground, will retain his Transport for London (TfL) salary of £285,000 on top a non-consolidated allowance of £130,000 for his role as Crossrail CEO. He [...]
TfL to lose £200m from Crossrail delay next year November 14, 2018 The delay to Crossrail will cost Transport for London (TfL) nearly £200m in lost passenger fares and advertising revenue next year, the London Assembly has found. Cash-strapped TfL, which is facing a £1bn operational deficit this year, was relying on the £15.4bn Elizabeth Line to shore up its balance sheet. After months of assurances, the project [...]
London Assembly accuses Sadiq Khan of ‘incompetence’ over Crossrail delay November 9, 2018 London mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of showing "incompetence" in his handling of the delay to the £15.4bn Elizabeth Line. The London Assembly's transport committee branded Khan's response to a letter it wrote in October – in which it accused the mayor of misleading the public about the delay – as "wholly unsatisfactory". On 31 August Crossrail announced [...]
Strike action hits Central Line and Waterloo & City Line, forcing commuters to find other ways to work November 7, 2018 Both the Central Line and Waterloo & City Line are not running today due to strike action. The strikes started at midnight after the RMT and Aslef unions voted for action to address industrial relations between drivers and Transport for London (TfL) that it claimed was at “breaking point”. The action will go on until [...]