The £14.8bn Crossrail project faces “increasing cost and schedule pressures” ahead of planned Elizabeth Line launch January 24, 2018 London’s transport commissioner has said the £14.8bn Crossrail project is facing “increasing cost and schedule pressures” with deadlines looming for the new railway, which is planned to open in stages from December. Among board papers published today, a report from Transport for London's commissioner Mike Brown said: Overall the Crossrail project, which is now 90 [...]
Mapped: Here’s how the Elizabeth Line will open in stages as the Crossrail project wraps up January 24, 2018 In December, Transport for London (TfL) revealed its updated Tube map for the Elizabeth Line once the Crossrail project wraps up. But with phasing of the project occurring until the full line is open, certain parts will be in operation at various times before the full railway is in action in December 2019. So, TfL [...]
Gatwick Airport mulls use of emergency runway to boost capacity as it waits for expansion green light January 22, 2018 Gatwick is investigating the potential of using its emergency runway to boost capacity, as it waits in the wings for government to back expansion of the London airport. In minutes from a November meeting of the Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee, the airport's chief executive Stewart Wingate said Gatwick will be looking at "the capability of [...]
London mayor Sadiq Khan names the next 13 Tube stations going step-free January 19, 2018 London mayor Sadiq Khan today announced the next 13 Tube stations going step-free and said they will be completed by spring 2022. The stations to benefit are North Ealing, Rickmansworth, Wimbledon Park, Boston Manor, Burnt Oak, Debden, Hanger Lane, Ickenham, Northolt, Park Royal, Ruislip, Snaresbrook and Sudbury Hill. Combined, they record more than 33m passenger [...]
The UK’s best and worst train companies ranked by passengers January 16, 2018 Southern rail has been given the lowest customer score among train passengers, followed by Southeastern and Thameslink and Great Northern, according to a Which? report out today. The majority of 2,865 respondents said they hadn't seen any improvement in train services over a year, with 67 per cent saying they felt their service had stayed [...]
TfL doesn’t “fully understand” why passenger numbers are falling, says London Assembly Budget Committee January 16, 2018 London Assembly members are not convinced that Transport for London(TfL) "fully understands" why its passenger numbers are falling, according to a report out today. The London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee has published a response to the mayor's draft budget, saying it was seeing more indications that TfL was experiencing "financial difficulties", which will impact [...]
Gatwick just announced it had a record-breaking 2017 as passenger numbers near 46m January 12, 2018 Gatwick Airport rounded off a trio of records for London airports, announcing today it welcomed 45.6m passengers last year. It comes after both Heathrow and Stansted reported their best years to date yesterday. Gatwick had its busiest December on record, with 3.2m passengers travelling through the airport, up 1.5 per cent on the same time [...]
Ranked: London’s worst Tube lines for delays January 12, 2018 Londoners have already declared their favourite Tube line, but this ranking of which Tube lines face the most delays may give passengers more food for thought. Over a year from 1 September 2016 to 1 September 2017, the District Line faced the highest number of days with delays to service (which could include anything and [...]
Wizz Air has just announced a new European base in Vienna and 17 new routes for 2018 January 9, 2018 Low-cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air is making Austria its next choice for a base as it plugs $331m (£245m) into setting up in Vienna in June. The carrier said it will establish base operations at Vienna Airport with one Airbus A320 initially, followed by two Airbus A321 aircraft in November. Wizz Air plans to operate [...]
What you need to know about this week’s mass rail strikes across South Western Railway, Southern and Greater Anglia January 8, 2018 Commuters may still be smarting from the rail fare rise that greeted them at the start of the year, but there's more misery on the way in the form of a series of strikes next week. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has announced 24-hour walkouts across Northern, Merseyrail, Greater Anglia, Southern, South Western [...]