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£400 million short? Tube Lines dilemma to upgrade Piccadilly, Northern and Jubilee Lines 
Posted on  08-03-2010 10:11:40 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Transport Desk

Transport Desk

Tube Lines the company which has the job to upgrade the Piccadilly Line, is according to a report by The Guardian, seeking to raise a further £400 million to "keep alive" the so called PPP or the public private partnership, which ...

  
Heathrow omitted from High Speed network - 10 miles to connection - Crossrail cop out 
Posted on  05-03-2010 02:42:49 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Heathrow airport will not have a direct link to a new high speed rail network, according to the outlays of a government white paper.

Airport passengers wanting to use the new London-Birmingham link will have to trek nearly ten miles to a new station at Old Oak Common ...


  
Thieves strip Tube station of power generators 
Posted on  05-03-2010 01:38:52 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

British Transport Police have launched an investigation after thieves made off with a tube stations portable power generators.
 
The two petrol powered generators worth £1000 each were stolen from Stonebridge Park London Underground depot in February.

A warning was also issued as the units have to ...


  
National Rail strike ballots open - tens of thousands to walkout - unions "stuck in the past" 
Posted on  26-02-2010 11:20:59 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Tens of thousands of National Rail staff are gearing up for strike action that could parallelise Britain’s transport network.
 
One ballot opened yesterday involving 13,000 maintenance staff and the other involving all signaling and supervisor workers is set for 4th March.

The Rail Maritime and Transport Union decided ...


  
Mayor finally gets cash out of DoT - £17m snared for electric car charge points 
Posted on  25-02-2010 05:43:34 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Nearly 2,000 electric car charge points will be installed across London in a major boost to the flagging scheme.

Currently there are only 250 points in the capital and 1,700 green vehicles registered - Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged 25,000 by 2015 with 100,000 electric vehicles by 2020.


  
Another day, another Thames crossing closure - Greenwich and Woolwich shutdowns 
Posted on  25-02-2010 02:04:24 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

It has been a bad month for those wanting to transverse the River Thames as another north-south crossing prepares to shutdown for maintenance work.

Four bridges — Albert, Hammersmith, Southwark and Waterloo along with Blackwall tunnel are currently subject to closures, sometimes simultaneously.

And now the Greenwich and ...


  
Legal challenge to Heathrow's third runway 
Posted on  23-02-2010 03:54:42 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  News Desk

News Desk

Legal challenges to the proposed third runway have commenced a coalition of thirteen organisations backing the legal challenge. It is made up of local councils, leading green groups and residents’ groups, representing millions of people.

The coalition’s lawyers ...

  
Lord Adonis goads Mayor - "I'll take over TfL" - fund request "not acceptable" 
Posted on  19-02-2010 01:08:57 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis delivered a serious slapdown to Mayor Boris Johnson today in a funding row and threatened to take over Transport for London.

Johnson had demanded that central government step in with the £400m needed to bridge a budget gap in maintenance and upgrades to the ...


  
Rail unions declare National Strike ballot over "jobs massacre" 
Posted on  18-02-2010 01:37:35 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Rail unions are set to parallelise Britain’s transport network after they declared a National Strike ballot.

Thousands of maintenance workers will be asked to vote yes following what Rail, Maritime and Transport Union called a "jobs massacre" that will "threaten the safety of passengers and staff".

The ballot ...


  
M25's hard shoulder to become 'new lane' - not all sections covered - £2bn contracts 
Posted on  18-02-2010 01:18:00 PM (GMT +01:00)

The M25 will abandon it's hard shoulder to increase capacity, the Highways Agency has ruled.

Motorists will be allowed to drive on the section after successful trials and a Department for Transport “road map” report on the future of the network.

Much of the orbital motorway is eight ...


  
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