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Jubilee Line needs urgent action as reliability falls
24 March 2012 - 8:54pm — AdministratorCommenting on another major disruption to the Jubilee line during the rush hour on 22nd March, Caroline Pidgeon said:
"This line is critical to ensuring London keeps moving during the Games, but far from seeing improvements, reliability has been falling.
"The Mayor and Transport for London need to detail actions that will be taken in the next three months to turn this round."
And just 4 days later, hundreds of passengers had to walk out of a broken down train and through a darkened tunnel to safety.
Caroline said:
Time for honesty over Jubilee line fiasco
28 January 2012 - 10:25pm — AdministratorAs news emerges that TfL has had to pay £25m to the company that owns Canary Wharf in compensation for the major delays to the Jubilee line upgrade, Caroline Pidgeon commented:
"Users of the Jubilee line have faced years of misery as the upgrade programme over-ran. To learn now that millions of pounds has been shelled out to Canary Wharf Group, while passengers have not been compensated, adds insult to injury.
"It is time the Mayor and TfL were honest with Londoners over the real cost of this long-standing fiasco. We are entitled to know the details of every penny that has been spent."
You can read full coverage in the Evening Standard, the Docklands & East London Advertiser and the Wharf website.
Jubilee Line fiasco costs more and more
5 August 2011 - 7:48pm — AdministratorAfter years of disruption on the Jubilee Line new evidence has come to light revealing some of the real costs of the years of dragged out weekend closures.
Following extensive freedom of information requests Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, has now discovered that the costs of the weekend closures since April 2007 on the Jubilee Line include:
- 32 million passengers being affected by the weekend closures, leading to a loss in ticket revenue of a staggering £15.7 million
- Transport for London having to spend £13 million on replacement buses
Commenting on these immense figures Caroline Pidgeon said:
“A year ago the Mayor and Transport for London admitted that the upgrade programme on the Jubilee Line would slip once again. After years of disruption to passengers, communities and businesses they announced a further year of weekend closures which has only just finished.
Making London's roads safer for cyclists
30 May 2011 - 3:39pm — Administrator
Caroline Pidgeon is continuing to support action to tackle the high number of accidents and fatalities that face cyclists on London's roads. London faces an especially serious problem with accidents involving collisions between lorries and cyclists at junctions.
A recent question asked by Caroline to the Mayor revealed that in 2009 six cyclists were killed on London's roads in accidents involving a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), and with a further two cyclists killed in accidents involving a refuse lorry and a cement mixer. In 2010 there were two cyclists killed in accidents involving vehicles and two further two fatal collisions including a skip lorry and a cement truck.
Caroline has already given her full support to the campaign by the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) for better training for lorry drivers and recently received the petition that had already gathered more than 10,000 signatures. Read more information about the campaign here.
Another day of rush hour Jubilee line chaos
20 May 2011 - 6:57pm — AdministratorThe Evening Standard reports on the rush-hour chaos on the Jubilee line yesterday, with a loose screw on a platform door at Westminster causing major delays along the line.
Caroline told the Standard:
The ongoing problems and delays on the Jubilee line cannot be dismissed as isolated incidents. There is something seriously going wrong with one of London's most important transport links.
It is time that the Mayor provided proper answers and not just excuses over the running of the Jubilee line.
Mayor’s unbelievable latest broken promise over Jubilee Line
18 May 2011 - 9:02pm — AdministratorCaroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on the Mayor’s admission made today at City Hall that substantial improvements in capacity on the Jubilee Line will only be completed by the Autumn, said:
“Passengers will find it truly unbelievable that there is yet another delay to when the Jubilee Line will be operating at full capacity, seven days a week.
“Today’s admission is the fourth broken promise made by the Mayor as to when improvements to the Jubilee Line will finally be completed.
Why are there yet more delays on the Jubilee Line?
28 April 2011 - 9:01pm — AdministratorCaroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on today’s admission by the Mayor and Transport for London that weekend closures and upgrade work on the Jubilee Line will not be completed until July, said:
“The Mayor, who is Chair of Transport for London, must now apologise to Londoners for this further delay in completing the upgrade of the Jubilee Line.
Barnet Lib Dem members visit City Hall
29 January 2011 - 6:19pm — Administrator
Caroline Pidgeon AM took a small group of members from Barnet around City Hall on Thursday 27th January. Caroline talked about the work of the Assembly in holding the Mayor to account as well as showing the team the amazing views form the top of City Hall - London's Living Room.
£11.6m cost of replacement buses for Jubilee Line closures
5 December 2010 - 8:04pm — AdministratorThe Independent and the Daily Mail have both covered the Mayor's admission, in response to questions from Caroline Pidgeon, that £11.6m has been spent so far on rail replacement bus services during the Jubilee Line upgrade works.
Caroline said:
The delayed upgrades to the Jubilee Line has been bad enough for passengers and businesses, who have had to put up with terrible disruption and closures for far too long. It is now rubbing salt into the wound to discover that farepayers are picking up another huge bill.
Thameslink go-ahead is a great day for commuters
29 November 2010 - 9:30pm — Administrator
Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on today’s confirmation that Thameslink will go ahead in its entirety, virtually doubling the number of north-south trains running through central London at peak times said:
“This announcement is a great day for commuters and London’s economy.
“Firstly Crossrail and now the confirmation that the Thameslink project will go head in full means that train capacity across the whole of London will be greatly increased within an decade.
“At a time of such tight public finances and when difficult short term decisions are having to be made in so many areas it is excellent news that long term plans to improve transport in London have not been compromised.”
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