Transport for London to face funding squeeze as journey numbers will ‘never hit pre-Covid peak’ March 29, 2021 Transport for London to face funding squeeze as journey numbers will never hit pre-Covid peak
Ministers must set out 30 year rail electrification plan, MPs warn March 23, 2021 The government needs to lay out a 30 year plan for electrifying the UK’s rail network if it is to hit its climate targets, MPs have today warned. A new report from the Transport Select Committee argued that the government should commit to a programme of rolling electrification projects over the next three decades if [...]
TfL accepts emergency funding extension until May March 22, 2021 Transport for London (TfL) has this morning agreed to an emergency seven week extension to its current funding deal to keep it going amid the pandemic. The transport network had been hoping to strike a long-term funding agreement with the government to begin fixing its finances, but last week transport secretary Grant Shapps pulled the [...]
London needs a transport shake-up, with cheaper rail prices, e-scooters and new funding systems for TfL March 20, 2021 One year into the pandemic and London is on the brink of a transport revolution. For many the only obvious step change has been a retrograde one. Londoners continue to avoid public transport with almost the same zeal with which we once crammed ourselves onto tube carriages. Driving cars, while not quite back in vogue [...]
Government offers extension of emergency TfL funding deal until May March 18, 2021 The government has today offered to extend its emergency funding deal with Transport for London (TfL) until May, ensuring that services will be able to continue running. The proposed deal would be TfL’s third bailout in the past year, after the body’s revenue plummeted by more than 90 per cent last March during the first [...]
Reducing TfL service levels risks ‘cycle of decline’ in capital, ministers warned March 18, 2021 Forcing Transport for London to reduce service levels as part of its new bailout package could hamper the capital’s recovery from the pandemic and instigate a “cycle of decline”, a group of London business leaders has said. It came as the transport network warned that it had no more mega-projects planned after current works are [...]
More than 2,000 TfL bus drivers have caught Covid-19 since October March 17, 2021 More than 2,000 Transport for London (TfL) bus drivers contracted Covid-19 in the four months between October and January, new data from the operator has shown. According to figures collected from the contractors which run the capital’s bus services, 2,017 of around 25,000 drivers caught the virus in that period. The operator only started collecting [...]
City Corporation welcomes plans to reopen Waterloo and City line March 17, 2021 The City of London Corporation has welcomed a commitment by Transport for London (TfL) to reopen the Waterloo and City line in the coming months. Services on the line – London’s second-most intensively used – have been stopped since March 2020. A TfL board meeting was told yesterday that the line would restart in May or June. [...]
Waterloo and City line to reopen as early as May, London Underground chief says March 17, 2021 London Underground chief says Waterloo and City line to reopen as early as May
Half of Londoners think Sadiq Khan has not done enough to improve London’s affordability March 16, 2021 New polling shows more than half of Londoners think Sadiq Khan has not done enough to make London more affordable as his near 10 per cent council tax rise begins to take effect across the capital.