Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 32

The Metropolitan

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London Transport News

April

Final weekend closures announced for Jubiliee line upgrade, occcuring in May and June.
Traffic restrictions introduced on Wilton Road for Victoria Station Upgrade
Tour of Britain cycle race to start in London in September
Expansion joints to be replaced on A406 Redbridge flyover
For 2010-2011 financial year, passenger figures on London Underground top 1.1 billion.
18 buses to be trial fitted with equitment to tackle nitrogen oxide emissions
Work to begin in summer on building Thames Cable-Car
Gold membership announced for freight operators
Bombardier awarded new signalling contract on Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines
Two Berclays Cycle Superhighways now under construction
Taxi and private hire license fees frozen
Northern Line to not stop at Tottenham Court Road until November due to upgrade

March

New District Line timetable will see increase in Wimbledon trains with weekday withdrawal of Kensington Olympia service
TfL publishes Business Plan
Wi-fi to be available across 120 stations by June 2012
Bidders shortlisted for new Croydon trams
Taxi fares increase by 2.7%
New ticket hall open at Stratford Regional station
Over 100,00 people use Congestion Charge Auto-pay
Works to improve traffic flow at Henlys Corner begin in April
Out-of-London permits to be abolished from Oyster card and other Oyster improvements announced
TfL relaunches teen road safety campaign with help from young TV stars
Staff recognised at Dial-a-Ride Awards 2011
Blackwall tunnel to only close for three more weekends.
Staff recognised at London Bus Awards 2011
Essential escalator works to begin at Holborn for six weeks

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times) Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

Project News

Articles

Hugahoody (talk · contribs) suggested various London Underground related GA nominations which were later withdrawn.
William Henry Barlow was promoted to Good Article status in March, RAF Northolt in April and Frank Pick in May
The featured article 1910 London to Manchester air race was added to the project.
There are currently 2,754 project pages; all have been assessed for quality and importance. If you see a new article on a project topic which is not rated, please add the banner to the talk page and assess it.

Portal

The portal has now been automated by DavidCane (talk · contribs) and is going through featured portal candidacy

Requests

Haynestre (talk · contribs) has requested comment on London General Omnibus Company
WhisperToMe (talk · contribs) has requested photos of various companies across London including airlines.
Tyw7 has requested help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
MRSC has requested help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital
Lifelike (talk · contribs) has requested more info be added to rail line infoboxes
Usage data has been published on National Rail stations by the DfT. The recent 2009/10 includes Oyster usage.
File:Thames tunnels.svg (below) requires updating (leave a note here explaining what needs doing)

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Other

Discussions within the project included redirection of WP:TFL, Good article nominations of the London Underground and Frank Pick, renomination of the portal as a featured portal, project colour schemes, splitting of London Underground stations and abandoned London Underground proposals
Other project related discussions included naming conventions on classes of trains, S-rail blunders, railway gauge discussions, banners, capitalisation of lines, St Pancras station naming and water navigation categories.

Members

Editorial

Editor: Simply south (talk)
Many, many apologies for not having an April edition but here is the May edition. Does anyone fancy doing June?
It is sad to see that Kbthompson (talk · contribs) passed away in mid-December. Condolences to his many family and friends.
All suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcome at feedback page or User talk:Simply south

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