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Crossrail, the largest addition to the transport network in London and the South East for more than 50 years has completed its Parliamentary process, with the Crossrail Bill receiving Royal Assent.

The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) will be promoting cycling throughout the coming months, through innovative events and the ongoing “You’re better off by bike” campaign. The aims of this campaign are to encourage existing cyclists to use their bikes more regularly, and promote cycling to the estimated 1.1 million Londoners who have access to bikes but don’t use them.

The new bosses of Croydon's Tramlink service cannot guarantee fares will not rise after Transport for London (TfL) took over the running of the service.

Seven bosses at Tramtrack, the company that has run the town's tram service for the last 11 years, are to be made redundant following the takeover this week.

The publicly-funded TfL was forced to bail out the service with up to £4m a year to subsidise it, with costs predicted to rise.

In the last week of April Hammersmith & Fulham Council (H+F) agreed a multi-million pound funding package that will enable Imperial Wharf overground station, talked about for nearly twenty years, to be built.

An H+F spokesman said: "It has been a long road to get here but after 15 years there is finally light at the end of the tunnel for Imperial Wharf. Thanks to the collaboration of H+F and Kensington & Chelsea councils our construction partners can get on and start building this important station."

The new station, on the West London Line will be built by Imperial Wharf developers St George Central London Pic. This news should assist local people trapped in one of west London's most notorious transport dead ends. The area scores just two, out of six, on official 'transport accessibility' maps and recent developments like Imperial Wharf, Chelsea Harbour and Lots Road Power Station are adding to the number of commuters experiencing those access difficulties.

A council spokesman continues: "Without Imperial Wharf Overground Station the full development potential of the south of the borough is unlikely to be realised. More car traffic would be created adding to local congestion and pollution and those without cars would struggle to get around easily."

This long awaited station will be built just north of the West London Line railway bridge over the River Thames. The station will allow residents interchange with the District Line at West Brompton and with many rail services from Clapham Junction. Rail experts expect the station to open in 2010.

By Stephen Aselford

All aboard for a classic bus running day in the Worcester Park and North Cheam area of south London on Sunday 10 August 2008.  This will recreate the bus routes of 50 years ago - free services using buses of the period.

Click on the above link for full details of this event.

Thousands of commuters will need new Oyster cards after a fault on the network at the weekend. Up to 40,000 cards are expected to have stopped working as a result of the problem on Saturday.

The Department for Transport today announced shortlisted applicants to build an entirely new fleet of trains for Thameslink routes, valued at around £1.4bn. They are: ALSTOM Transport, Bombardier Transportation UK Limited, Hitachi Europe Limited and Siemens Transportation Systems.

Bidders will be asked to produce 1,100 new carriages for Thameslink routes which will increase the current fleet size by around 380 carriages.  This means that passengers will see around 14,500 extra seats.

East Sheen students are facing long waits, two-hour journeys and uncooperative bus drivers on a daily basis, according to their head. Shene School has conducted a survey which estimated that about 15,000 hours of pupils' education was lost last year due to the lack of service from Transport for London.

Richmond rail commuters could be facing long journeys to north London when engineering works begin in September. Regular passenger Mary Pritchard has criticised Transport for London (TfL) for failing to adequately notify travellers in the borough who rely on the London overground line, which runs from Richmond to Stratford.

This is a review of available evidence on public attitudes to passenger transport. It covers attitudes across travel modes and attitudes about transport policy goals.

Click on the link above to access the report.