A customer was assaulted whilst West Finchley Station was left unstaffed on Sunday evening. It took nearly a quater of an hour for British transport Police to arrive on the scene. This incident follows the release of LUL documents revealing that nearly a third of stations could at times be unstaffed.
EAMONN LYNCH
T/Op E&C DT
1/19/2011
Dear Colleagues,
As you are aware, I was summarily dismissed from LUL on October 13th 2010.
This letter is my chance to set out the facts of the case rather than the half truths, rumours and spin LUL have chosen to fill the media with.
On August 9th my train had a defective trip cock at Stonebridge Park. When this incident was being investigated, I was given assurances by Bakerloo senior managers that my job was not on the line and I would face a misconduct charge at the most.
David Cameron has discussed making democratic ballots invalid where under fifty percent of members vote. This idea was originally mooted by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson was elected following a vote of less than fifty percent of Londoners.
Click 'read more' to see the BBC report.
TfL have accepted Wonga.com as sponsors of free travel on New Year's Eve.
Wonga is a 'pay day loan' company with a typical APR of 2689%. If you were to borrow a fiver from them for one day - enough to cover a single journey on the tube, you'd owe them £10.60.
For many Londoner's, these loans may seem to be the only way to access funds, more so as decent jobs are cut and employee rights eroded following the ConDem goverments and bosses attacks on working class people - as can be seen at LU where 800 positions will be cut.
I've signed up to this statement and campaign against 'kettling' and other repressive police treatment of protesters.
We should all have the right to protest without being held captive or violently assaulted. Please read the statement and consider adding your name too.
BBC London is asking for viewers questions, related to public transport, for London Mayor Boris Johnson.
The article is here should you want to ask him anything.
This website has several articles regarding Boris.
Hi, I'm Les Bruty, H&S Rep At Wembley Park.
I'd like to welcome all members to your local Website pages, somewhere you can vocie your views or annouce someones birthday its your choice.
So please take time to ask your reps to upload your entries.
Transport For London's commissioner Peter Hendy was recently interviewed by Dave Hill for The Guardian.
In the interview Hendy says that TFL will be facing cuts in its budget of 21% over the next few years. Future job losses are discussed with Hendy foreseeing that "The other thing you take a hit on is the cost of running the place. We will be doing less in some areas, so we will need less people to do it"
In an interview on LBC Radio, Boris Johnson is asked "For the record, the mayor of London believes London will be adequately protected from fire by twenty-seven appliances crewed by part time staff, trained for on average two weeks." Boris didn't confirm the safety of the plans, dodging the question by answering 'The preparations were perfectly good.'
I have sent the following message of support to French rail strikers. You can read about their action here.
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I am writing on behalf of the London Transport Region of the National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) here in the UK. I write to tell you of our strong support for the action you are taking in defence of pensions.