Southwark Rail Users Group News
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200 South London Line Campaigners Pack Mayor’s Question Time
Tue, 10/11/2009 - 09:30 — eileenSave our South London Line Campaign PRESS RELEASE
200 South London Line Campaigners Pack Mayor’s Question Time
Biggest contingent ever on a single issue at any Mayor’s Question Time
Mayor to lead delegation to see Transport Minister
read press release
Mayor takes rail battle to the Government
Tue, 10/11/2009 - 05:07 — eileenTfL / Mayor of London Press Release
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will this week meet with the Transport Minister, Sadiq Khan, on behalf of Londoners living in the south of the capital in a bid to resolve their concerns over the future of rail
services in their area. read press release
Boris Johnson fights plan to shut commuter route
Mon, 09/11/2009 - 14:52 — eileenEvening Standard 9th November 2009 Dick Murray, Transport Correspondent
Boris Johnson is fighting proposals to close a rail route into Victoria and London Bridge stations after accusing the Government of ducking out of its responsibilities to pay for an alternative service. read Evening Standard ...
Southern Stakeholder Brief Nov 2009
Sun, 08/11/2009 - 02:07 — eileenFrom the Southern Stakeholder Brief: Oyster pay as you go top ups
Passengers in South London can now ‘top-up’ their Oyster pay as you go cards at Southern stations using the ticket vending machines. This addition comes in advance of the roll out of Oyster pay as you go on the National Rail network in London planned for early 2010. Read Stakeholder Brief
TfL under pressure to reconsider axing
Fri, 06/11/2009 - 04:45 — eileenSouthwark News 5 November 2009 John Prendergast
Pressure from campaigners has led Transport for London (TfL) seriously to reconsider saving the South London Line (SLL), after TfL initially sent out mixed messages about its retention. read more...
Success – TfL Review to cover London Bridge!
Tue, 03/11/2009 - 04:50 — eileenThe TfL invitation to the Stakeholder meeting on 24th November reveals that the campaign has successfully got trains to London Bridge back onto the agenda. These originally were excluded from the TfL review which was looking only at services to Victoria. The letter says:
Read moreTfL Review: Stakeholder Meeting 24 November 2009
Tue, 03/11/2009 - 04:35 — eileenLetter from TfL: 2nd November 2009
I am writing to provide an update on progress of the TfL/London TravelWatch South London Line options study. ... We are now proposing to hold the first meeting on 24 November (as opposed to October as stated in our initial letter). We will report back on the outcome of the above work at this meeting. Read more
Boris agrees to meet on rail
Fri, 30/10/2009 - 04:16 — eileen
web report: Southwark News 29 October 2009 John Prendergast
Mayor Boris Johnson has finally agreed to meet with campaigners and talk through the future of the South London Line.
Read moreBoris agrees to South London Line meeting
Tue, 20/10/2009 - 13:22 — eileenLONDON Mayor Boris Johnson finally agreed during a City Hall question time to meet rail campaigners about plans to axe a train line. Boris said he would receive a cross-party deputation about plans to axe both the South London Line (SLL) and its proposed replacement. He also said he would head a joint meeting between campaigners and the Department for Transport (DfT), who reached a deal with the City Hall’s transport arm TfL to abandon the planned replacement service. Read more
See & here this exchange on the City Hall webcast - 10 minutes in on Mayor's Question Time here: http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/webcasts.jsp
Read moreBoris Transport Plans on ITV London Tonight
Sat, 17/10/2009 - 08:03 — eileenfrom ITV London Tonight 12 October
click here for broadcast clip: http://www.itv.com/london/boristransportplans57650/
THIS IS FROM THE TRAM FACEBOOK PAGE: INDOMIE Thursday 15 October 2009 2.50pm
Some of you may have seen this week’s announcement of the Mayors new Transport Strategy for London (not to mention today’s steep bus fare increases too!)
You can read the document at http://mts.tfl.gov.uk/default.aspx but I’m afraid there is very little in there about South East London and no mention of the Cross River Tram at all [or the South London Line]! There is now a vague mention of a possible extension of the Bakerloo Line sometime after 2020, but this is subject to further research. It’s an option that has been looked at in the past and ruled out on cost and technical grounds – hence the preference for the Tram. There is a real danger now that our needs will be pushed further down the list of priorities as any Bakerloo extension is unfunded and could well fall foul to a change of Mayor in the future. We seem to be going around in circles!
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