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Video - Caroline talks to Hampstead traders about weekend tube closures

9 March 2010 - 8:09pm — Administrator

Caroline Pidgeon joined Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner for Hampstead and Kilburn, Ed Fordham, and talked to local people about the impact to them of planned closures on the Northern, Metropolitan and Jubilee lines. Watch the videos here...

Crossrail is vital but needs to learn lessons

24 February 2010 - 9:15pm — Administrator

The London Assembly Transport Committee has launched a new report, questioning the sums Londoners are paying for the Crossrail project, and criticising the way compulsory purchases of businesses and homes have been handled.

In the report, 'Light at the end of the tunnel', the Committee recognises the value of the £16bn rail link project, which will bring an extra 10% capacity on London’s overcrowded rail and Tube network, thousands of new jobs and a massive boost to the national economy.

However, it questions the fairness of Londoners contributing the majority of the funding, when 8 of the 37 stations are outside Greater London, and the project is expected to generate £22bn for central government over the next ten years. It also points out Crossrail's poor handling of displaced businesses and residents whose premises are compulsory purchased to make way for construction work, especially in Soho.

Keeping track of Crossrail

22 December 2009 - 10:49am — Administrator

Caroline went on a site visit on Friday 18th December to look at works at Tottenham Court Road for Crossrail and the upgrade of the London Underground Station.

Visiting Euston Fire Station

13 December 2009 - 8:41pm — Administrator

Member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority Caroline Pidgeon AM visited Euston Fire Station in December to meet the Borough Commander and to discuss the challenges of fire safety work at an inner London Fire Station.

Caroline was joined by Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner for Holborn and St Pancras Jo Shaw.

”It was a very interesting visit to see the training that takes place and hear about the programmes for young people run by the Fire Brigade in Camden” commented Caroline.

New ticket hall improves access for King's Cross passengers

13 December 2009 - 6:34pm — Administrator

Caroline visited the new ticket hall at the underground at King's Cross station just before it opened at the end of November 2009.

The new ticket hall will help passengers get around form rail and bus to tube far more easily, and has disabled access to most of the platforms.

Caroline at the Marchmont Street Festival

17 September 2009 - 9:25pm — Administrator

Caroline Pidgeon joined Camden Lib Dems at the Marchmont Street Festival in the King's Cross area. She appears in the Lib Dems' video of the event, talking about the "Twenty Is Plenty" campaign for 20mph speed limits to make the area's roads safe for pedestrians and cyclists.

Caroline joins Camden Lib Dems' 20mph campaign

9 September 2009 - 7:52pm — Administrator

Caroline Pidgeon, the chair of the London Assembly transport committee, came to the launch of a Liberal Democrat campaign in Camden to introduce 20mph limits on streets across the wards of King’s Cross and Bloomsbury.

Caroline said: “Lib Dems London-wide are pushing for greater action on speeding than either the current or previous London mayors have been prepared to take.”

Lib Dem parliamentary campaigner for Holborn and St Pancras Jo Shaw, and King’s Cross Lib Dems, have welcomed the fact that money will be spent on improving the dangerous junction on Marchmont Street. But they said that pedestrians deserve to feel safe everywhere.

Jo Shaw commented: “Residents across the south of Camden have told that they feel unsafe and uncomfortable walking around the streets of their own neighbourhood.

“A 20mph limit for our streets would at a stroke make the traffic less intimidating, less noisy and, most importantly, unlikely to hurt anybody.”

Northern Line could close from 10pm on weekdays

2 September 2009 - 9:44pm — Administrator

The Evening Standard reports on plans for sections of the Northern Line to close at 10pm on weeknights, as signalling systems are replaced over the next two years.

In the article, Caroline gives her views:

Caroline Pidgeon, Lib-Dem transport spokeswoman on the London Assembly, encouraged TfL and Tube Lines to “think outside the box” and suggested that full-line closures, lasting several weeks at a time, may be more efficient than repeated weekend shut-downs.

Dangerous junction at Tavistock Place and Marchmont Street

23 June 2009 - 8:47pm — Administrator

Caroline recently visited the junction of Tavistock Place and Marchmont Street with local campaigner Lee Baker and Local Residents’ Association Chair Ricci de Freitas, to look at how dangerous the road layout had become.

The junction had been redesigned by Transport for London, resulting in a very strange cycle lane, with arrows going in all directions at one point, and pedestrian crossings not where people actually cross the road.

Caroline takes the One Hour Bus Ticket campaign to Islington and Camden

1 June 2009 - 9:31pm — Administrator



Caroline took the London Liberal Democrats' campaign for a one-hour bus ticket to Islington last week. She joined Lib Dem Parliamentary campaigner Bridget Fox to talk to local residents about the campaign, and to ask them to sign a petition to the Mayor.

Caroline also joined Sarah Ludford MEP and Lib Dem campaigners from Holborn & St Pancras, meeting voters in Camden and collecting signatures for the petition.