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TfL travel experts to offer one-to-one advice sessions

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 One-to-one sessions will be held to help residents learn how they can save time and money, improve their family’s health and do their bit for the environment while travelling.

Funded by Transport for London (TfL), the personal travel solution sessions will allow residents to meet with a travel expert, who will advise them on healthier, cheaper and more convenient ways of getting around the area.
10:06, 30 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees

Kingston University's suburban chief calls for investment in public transport

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The country’s expert on suburbia has called for more Government investment in transport in Kingston and Surbiton, so she and others like her can cut down her commute. Dr Vesna Goldsworthy, director of the UK’s first Centre for Suburban Studies, based at Kingston University, spoke on the publication of a new report calling for more investment in the suburbs of London.
13:01, 21 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees

Money row 'risks plans for Tube'

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Tube trains could become more crowded and improvements on London Underground scrapped unless a "funding crisis" is resolved, the London Assembly has said. Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground maintenance firm Tube Lines disagree on the cost of upgrade work.
10:41, 19 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees

Croydon commuters call for tram extension

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Cross party political support and pressure from the community is the way to get the Tramlink extension to Crystal Palace back on track, a public meeting was told.Around 40 people attended the meeting organised by Labour's prospective Parliamentary candidate Gerry Ryan at Stanley Halls, in South Norwood, to launch the "Reinstate Tramlink" campaign.

11:15, 13 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees

Surbiton train service 'slower than before the war'

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Today’s London commuters rely on trains that run slower than before the Second World War, according to an expert at one of the capital’s leading universities.

Studies of the busiest train services in and out of London have shown that rail passengers have an increased waiting time for services that take longer.

11:54, 10 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees

Transport 'superhubs' key to revitalising outer London's economy

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One or more 'superhubs' could be created in south London to revitalise its flagging economy. That was one big idea floated by William McKee, chairman of the Mayor of London’s new Outer London Commission (OLC) at our Listen to Business meeting at Twickenham Stadium on Tuesday.

Croydon has already been shortlisted as one possible superhub around which radial transport links would be improved, as have Stratford in the east, Brent Cross in the north and the Heathrow area in the west.
16:31, 04 Mar 2009 by Matthew Rees