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Post by snoggle on Sept 8, 2013 14:58:30 GMT
Looks like our politicians are reving up in anticipation of the imminent TfL Board Meeting which I expect will include the fares increase paper
(interestingly never shown on meeting agendas) plus lots of other questions.
There are questions on :-
- projected fares increase for 2014.
- assessments of 1 hour bus ticket, early bird ticket, part time travelcard (all Caroline Pidgeon long standing issues).
- angry questions about the divergence between Oyster and bank cards over the introduction of weekly capping.
- cost of NB4L conductors and total projected numbers.
- cost of guards on Overground services.
- spend and allocation of Green Bus funding.
- costs on spend to date and criteria for the introduction of white on black bus blinds.
- details of what was done to resolve the NB4L "Roastmaster" problems.
- update on the proposed Bromley extension of the DLR.
- update on planning of Barking Riverside extension of GOBLIN.
- demands for extra Countdown signs from Tory assembly members who support cuts to public spending (!)
- demands for the rezoning of stations on SWT from Tory assembly members who support cuts to public spending (!)
- dear old manhood Tracey demanding the removal of cash fares on buses and the closure of ticket offices as soon as possible.
- request for the reinstatement of Junction Road station near Tufnell Park.
I do sometimes despair of our political class given their ability to face in opposite directions at the same time!
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Post by M1104 on Sept 8, 2013 15:20:27 GMT
If cash transactions are finally withdrawn from buses will oyster prices rocket to the inflation level of cash fares?
That's one question I would love to ask.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2013 1:20:20 GMT
manhood Tracey really has a problem of being unable to comprehend much beyond his dogmatic agenda. He always seems to ask questions when it comes to transport that betray his total ignorance of the subject, and willingness to waste time and tax payers money to try and pathetically bash union leaders and the rights of employees to form workers unions.
Just for the record, he won his seat with 43.1% of the vote, ie, not an outright majority, cast by 40.9% of the eligible electorate, ie, less than half of who could have voted.
Thus, if his favourite idea, to ban the ability of unions to call strikes unless a clear majority of ALL members voted for it (not just the majority of those who voted) were applied to politics, he would not hold a position on the London Assembly. But then again when have Tories ever been bothered by double standards or hypocrisy...
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Post by 6HP502C on Sept 10, 2013 17:51:22 GMT
Very interesting. I'm going to City Hall tomorrow, quite looking forward to it!
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Post by snoggle on Sept 10, 2013 18:52:44 GMT
Very interesting. I'm going to City Hall tomorrow, quite looking forward to it! I don't know if you've looked at the paperwork for Mayor's Question Time but obviously only a few questions are answered orally. The rest are for written answers. One of the oral questions is about an Orbital Metro line for London (which I, ahem, missed in my list) as recently suggested by Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport. Given there has been next to no detail about the orbital metro it will be interesting to hear what Boris says. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 0:54:36 GMT
If they cant even follow through with orbital express bus services, what chance does a fully fledged metro line have?
Personally I think the aim should be to develop the DLR into an orbital network for London, taking over and converting Tramlink in the process, with the central Croyden on street parts converted to cut and cover/bored/elevated.
Back in the real world though, surely a step in the right direction would first be to advertise on a new, clear, London Connexions map useful, high frequency bus links between various transport corridors, such as the 222 or 140.
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Post by snowman on Sept 11, 2013 6:28:11 GMT
Very interesting. I'm going to City Hall tomorrow, quite looking forward to it! I don't know if you've looked at the paperwork for Mayor's Question Time but obviously only a few questions are answered orally. The rest are for written answers. One of the oral questions is about an Orbital Metro line for London (which I, ahem, missed in my list) as recently suggested by Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport. Given there has been next to no detail about the orbital metro it will be interesting to hear what Boris says. There have been many thanks thoughts of orbital rail over the years so will be interesting. Various schemes involve linking overground in Kew to the Strawberry Hill line (with extra tracks as SWT line busy) then by Kingston ( and some widening of trackbed was done just before WW1 New Malden- Earlsfield) but I guess a spur to Sutton Common line or Tooting line makes more sense, should then be possible to link to Crystal Palace. Other options involve using the Kew bridge spur via Putney to link Clapham (all need flyovers to avoid conflicts). There has also been suggestions of an outer ring approx linking main towns in zone 6 and Heathrow etc by linking some lightly used branches (think Tattenham Corner, Belmont, Chessington, Claygate, Hampton, Colnbrook, Heathrow, Uxbridge etc Have to wait and see |
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Post by 6HP502C on Sept 11, 2013 21:56:26 GMT
Very interesting. I'm going to City Hall tomorrow, quite looking forward to it! I don't know if you've looked at the paperwork for Mayor's Question Time but obviously only a few questions are answered orally. The rest are for written answers. One of the oral questions is about an Orbital Metro line for London (which I, ahem, missed in my list) as recently suggested by Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport. Given there has been next to no detail about the orbital metro it will be interesting to hear what Boris says. Not much other than "watch this space" really, where it came to talking about an orbital railway. The notion of orbital bus routes did crop up, with the X26 getting a mention but I think the success and viability of orbital bus routes was called into question. Some serious heckling took place with some opposing cuts to the fire service. None were expelled, but things did get rather heated. |
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Post by snoggle on Sept 11, 2013 22:14:40 GMT
I don't know if you've looked at the paperwork for Mayor's Question Time but obviously only a few questions are answered orally. The rest are for written answers. One of the oral questions is about an Orbital Metro line for London (which I, ahem, missed in my list) as recently suggested by Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport. Given there has been next to no detail about the orbital metro it will be interesting to hear what Boris says. Not much other than "watch this space" really, where it came to talking about an orbital railway. The notion of orbital bus routes did crop up, with the X26 getting a mention but I think the success and viability of orbital bus routes was called into question. Some serious heckling took place with some opposing cuts to the fire service. None were expelled, but things did get rather heated. I followed proceedings via Twitter. I had picked up that the FBU might well turn up and start heckling so I decided not to watch the webcast! Thanks for the feedback on the orbital metro - sort of what I expected. I have a horrible feeling this is one of those "squiggles on a map" exercise to show "something is being done" even though it is so far off into the future that there is no possibility of it being built for 30 years. |
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