Jubilee Line needs urgent action as reliability falls

Commenting 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:
“With just 123 days to go to the start of the Olympics we need absolute assurances from the Mayor and TfL that last week’s fiasco on the Jubilee line will not occur again during such a critical period for London.

“After eight years of upgrade work we were promised that the Jubilee line would finally deliver trains in both directions throughout the busiest times of the day.

“Sadly the new timetable does not even deliver 30 trains for a full hour every morning. The Mayor and TfL have been caught out overselling the new timetable.”

You can read more in the Evening Standard here and here.