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The Metropolitan

The WikiProject London Transport Newsletter
Issue 15 - July 2009)

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London Transport News

June 2009

Wrexham & Shropshire has become the first train operating company to sell Oyster cards to passengers before they arrive in London.

Art on the on the Underground, London Underground's art programme, has won an international award for culture on public transport systems.

Transport for London have announced a five month improvement scheme for the A316 Richmond Circus road junction, with increased accessability for cyclists and pedestrians.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has tested London's first air-conditioned tube train.

New superhero artwork has been added to Charing Cross and Embankment tube stations.

Due to the ongoing tube strike, and the lack of Chiltern services, over 70,000 football supporters were without transport after the World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium.

Union RMT announced a 48 hour tube strike, which began at 18:59 on Tuesday 9 June.

The new Three Mills Lock has opened in Bromley-by-Bow.

Transport for London has announced that six bus manufacturers have qualified to bid for the contract to design and build the new bus for London.

To aid overseas travellers, London Underground has upgraded all touch screen ticket machines to 17 different languages.

May 2009

TFL launches search for new, free London morning newspaper to replace The Metro which ends its contract on March 2010.

Victoria Coach Station has become the first organisation in the London transport sector to achieve the Government's Customer Service Excellence (CSE) standard award.

The construction of Crossrail has begun at Canary Wharf station.

The Mayor of London has started a cycle revolution; all are welcome to join the events hosted to reduce impact on the environment.

New pedestrian crossings at Marble Arch, have allowed a "more mobile service" around the station.

Crime is down by 8% on the tube since last year.

Work to build the new Crossrail station at Tottenham Court Road begins on 15 May; rebuilding work will cost over £1 billion and the new ticket hall will be six times the size of the existing one

The replacement of all trains on the Piccadilly line by 2014 is announced

A flyover bridge at Canning Town is due to be put in place in late May as part of the DLR extension along the former North London Line from Canning Town to Stratford

April 2009

The Thames boat services are to be made easier with for example, more integration, a new ferry service from London Bridge to Canary Wharf, extending Tower Pier and acceptance of Oyster Pay as you go.

The London Overground's Stratford platforms will open later this month

Taxi fares in London increase by 3.4%

A bird photo competition, with partnership between tfl and RSPB, is launched

Member News

We have two new members! We welcome Trainzamania and Cɧrɩs, who both joined on 2 June.

There are currently 71 members!

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

It has certainly been a fantastic month for featured articles, with no less than three articles being promoted in June, Albert Bridge, London, Battersea Bridge and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. We would like to thank all the editors who worked so hard to get these articles where they are now. Richmond Bridge, London, which was promoted in May, was featured on the main page on 17 June. Chelsea Bridge has been nominated for featured status- I invite you to review or comment on the article here.

Concluding the news on featured articles, the List of London Underground stations article went through another featured list review. Fortunately, the list was able to keep its featured status.

The project gained two new members in June, Cɧrɩs and Trainzamania, bringing our total membership up to 71. We'll soon make it to 100!

As usual all suggestions to improving the metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

The following WikiProject London Transport pictures have been selected as amongst the best from the Project and are displayed in random rotation on the London transport Portal.

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Selected pictures

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From the editor

This is my first time editing the newsletter, so I hope everything's alright. I've added a bit more colour to the assessment section so that GA and FA/FL stand out more. Any further improvements are welcome, so please comment on what could be done better. Suggestions for alterations to the layout of the newsletter will be appreciated.

I would like to thank all the members of the WikiProject who helped create this issue and all those who have contributed to the articles which have made featured status in the past month.

Contributors to this Issue

OllieFury (talk) (Guest Editor and Distributor)
Simply south (talk) (Contributor and Distibutor)

Credits to all who fix grammar, spelling and punctuation in this newsletter.

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Lists of articles needing cleanup
Expand : These top 10 favourite articles to Good Article: J. P. Morgan · Heathrow Airport · River Thames · London Bridge · London Underground · London Bridge (Lake Havasu City) · Gatwick Airport · London Congestion Charge · Tube map · Tower Bridge These top importance articles to Good Article: 7 July 2005 London bombings · Buses in London · Crossrail · London Passenger Transport Board · London Transport (brand) · London Transport Museum · Transport for London · Transport in London
Photo : Upload your non-copyrighted London transportation images to Wikimedia Commons
Stubs : Improve a stub article
Update : London low emission zone, London congestion charge
Other :
- Suggest: A Did You Know...? fact here or an Anniversary fact here.
- Patrol: Recent changes
- Join: Become a member of WikiProject London Transport or encourage others

Assessment

GA

A1 road (London) A215 road Docklands Light Railway Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge

Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

FA/FL Albert Bridge Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway List of London Underground stations London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge

FAC/FLC

Chelsea Bridge

A
None

Other assessment notes

None

Other announcements

Three articles have been promoted to featured status:

Albert Bridge, London
Battersea Bridge
Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

The Chelsea Bridge article has been nominated as a featured article

Richmond Bridge, London was featured on the main page on 17 June.

The Church Road (Harlesden) article was deleted following an AFD discussion.

Did you know...

...that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
...that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?
...that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
...that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
...that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
...that Albert Bridge (pictured) in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
...despite the many motorways serving London, only four (the M1, the M4, M11 and M25) actually enter Greater London?
...out of the 32 London Borough, six have no underground stations- all of them south of the River Thames.
...Marylebone tube station opened with the unusual name of Great Central, reflecting the main line company that ran trains out of the terminus?
...that Routemaster's are still used on two heritage bus routes in London, routes 9 and 15?
...that for two years, from 1883 to 1885, the District Railway ran services along the Great Western Main Line to Windsor?
...that the Circle line was only designated as a separate line in 1949?
...Jerry Springer maintains that he was born in East Finchley tube station when his mother took shelter during the Blitz, despite East Finchley being a surface station.

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