Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Transport Spokesperson, commenting on today’s announcement that there will be a reduced programme of weekday evening closures for the Northern Line this summer, said:
"Where closures are absolutely necessary for tube upgrade work we should be seriously looking at short term blockades as opposed to very long periods of evening and weekend closures.
“With plenty of advanced notice and with alternative transport put in place temporary blockades of short sections of the Northern Line would often lead to far less pain than the drawn out and chaotic impact of many months of weekend and evening closures.”
“This announcement must be just the beginning of a new approach to upgrading the tube."