Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 27

The Metropolitan

London Transport News

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Bus crime lowest in six years
Early closure of Northern Line cancelled
Exhibition at Aldwych until July 9th
More air-conditioned Underground and Overground trains on their way
New electric vehicles with special livery to distinguish them join the taxis
Hammersmith & City and Circle to close between 24th July and 15th August for upgrade work as well as works to do with Paddington station and Crossrail
Rotherhithe tunnel to be southbound during weekend closures
New Digital Countdowns to be trialled telling people how long they have to cross the road
Deaths and serious injuries on roads half that of a decade ago in London
Improvements such as maps, signs and timetables as well as flags showing "River Buses" for commuter boats and "River Tours" for tourists to be introduced

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

One article was promoted to featured article status and one to featured list status in July
Three articles were promoted to Good Article status in July
Underground Electric Railways Company of London has been nominated for featured article status and Aldwych tube station has been nominated for good article status
There are currently 2,649 project articles; 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

Please vote on potential selected articles, images and biographies for the Portal
You can suggest a Did You Know? for the Portal

Requests

New usage data has been published by TfL for the London Underground for 2009. These could be added to station article infoboxes
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
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Members

Newest members: Alzarian16 (talk · contribs) and Sillybillypiggy (talk · contribs) joined in April
Number of participants is 81

Editorial

This month's guest editor: DavidCane (talk)
Usual editor Simply south (talk) has requested a volunteer edit the September edition of this newsletter
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