Kingston Area Travellers' Association

TfL confirmed that the pay-as-you-go service will be accepted on all overground services into Waterloo, including Kingston and Surbiton, by the end of 2009.

Violence against the person accounted for 94 of the 276 bus offences recorded in Kingston between January and November 2008, a 22 per cent fall from 2007.

Sean Kinsella, 22, of Limpsfield Rd, Sanderstead pleaded guilty to seven charges of criminal damage between May 2007 and March 2008 for vandalism at Streatham Hill depot, Coombe Way Tram Depot, Norwood Junction, East Croydon and South Croydon railway stations, Fairfield Road rail bridge and Selhurst rail depot.

The graffiti vandal received an eight-month suspended sentence at Southwark Crown Court. He was also handed a 12-month supervision order, a six-month curfew and five-year ASBO prohibiting him from possessing graffiti paraphernalia and from entering parts of the railway.

Councils opposing a third runway at Heathrow are set to unveil plans showing how the airport could instead be used as a rail hub for up to 40 trains an hour. A Heathrow rail hub could link 150 stations within a 25-mile radius of the airport to mainline services, including a high-speed line from London to Scotland.

Britain's train operators face a "potentially devastating" blow from the economic downturn and need government assistance to stave off disaster, public transport chiefs warned ministers yesterday.

The heads of the five largest train companies – Stagecoach, National Express, Go-Ahead, Arriva and FirstGroup – urged the transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, to consider shortening trains, rewriting the financial terms of franchise agreements and putting up state funding for an extra 1,000 staff across the rail network.

Train users were given a boost when it was announced four station ticket offices earmarked for closure on Sundays would now remain open on the Sabbath. Last week Lord Andrew Adonis, transport minister, told South West Trains (SWT) it could not proceed in full with a plan to reduce ticket office opening hours at 114 stations across the network.

The rail operator has responded to Lord Adonis’ announcement - and the rejection of proposals to reduce hours at offices during times when on average 12 or more tickets are issued hourly - with a new list of opening times and Barnes, Hampton, Hampton Court and Strawberry Hill station ticket offices will continue to open on Sundays.

Plans to slash weekday ticket office opening hours at Hampton and Strawberry Hill stations has also been scrapped as have plans to close the office at Fulwell station on Saturdays and cut opening hours at St Margarets on Sundays.

Hundreds of unemployed Kingston residents will get half-price bus and tram travel from April. The concession, which will benefit many of the 1,421 residents in Kingston currently receiving Job Seeker's Allowance, is designed to help people back to work by making it easier to travel to interviews, and access libraries, job centres, and other amenities.

The scheme was announced today as part of Mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s Economic Recovery Action Plan.

Staff manning ticket offices at South West Trains’ stations may lose their jobs after it was announced that almost 500 posts are to be cut by the rail operator.

A new night bus will serve passengers in Kingston from June, it has been announced. The N65, which currently runs from Ealing Broadway to Brook Street in Kingston, will be extended to serve Chessington and Hook from midnight under the new plans.

Transport chiefs have defended a "ghost bus" which runs once a week from Ealing Broadway to Wandsworth Road - but does not stop for any passengers. Every Tuesday - at 9.45am precisely - the 50-seat executive coach draws up at a bus stop F outside Ealing Broadway station in west London. No one ever get on and it departs, empty, on a 70-minute trip to Wandsworth where it waits for two hours before returning, again carrying no passengers.

This mysterious phenomenon occurs when a section of railway track becomes unuseable and a replacement bus service has to be implemented to cater for passenger needs. Rather than follow the lengthy and expensive public consultation procedure to shut down a railway line or station, which is a legal requirement, the Government instead keeps a bus service running that costs a fraction of the price.

The Mayor of London today officially opened a £180 million extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to Woolwich Arsenal, which delivers another vital north-south link across the capital. The extension has opened seven weeks ahead of schedule linking King George V station on the north of the river with a brand new station at Woolwich Arsenal in the south.

The London Assembly’s Planning and Housing Committee will examine proposals to raise £200m of Crossrail funding from a levy on additional office space in central London and the Isle of Dogs at its meeting on Monday 12 January.

South West Trains (SWT) passengers will be the last to be able to pay for their rail travel using their Oyster cards.Oyster agreements with most train companies are near completion but negotiations with SWT are not as advanced.

The Mayor of London today delivered on another key manifesto pledge when he announced an additional 50 British Transport Police officers to patrol trains and stations in outer London.

Transport for London (TfL) will be investing more than £6m during the next two years to fund the extra officers on non-TfL services as part of the Mayor’s commitment to clamp down on low-level crime and disorder at outer London rail stations.