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Transport Watch: The mayor is pressed for answers

THE Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was on good form when he addressed a packed Greenford Hall last month on transport issues in the capital.Read

Transport Watch: Latest round of new year fare increases

* As always the transport industry has welcomed the new year with a round of fare increases and, as usual, this has led to cries of 'unfair' and 'unjust.Read

Transport Watch: Your festive fair increases

TRANSPORT chiefs in London have given their customers their usual Christmas message, an announcement of higher fares starting on the first Sunday in 2011.Read

Strikes cause disruption on London rail services

Due to strike action by RMT and TSSA union members, the following tube services are disrupted until Wednesday morning.Read

Transport Watch: Crossrail gets green light while lost brollies pile up

SO IT looks as though Crossrail's future has been confirmed and the work that has already started on many sites can continue apace. Crossrail's future may now be assured but there is still no decision yet about the planned electrification of the line between Paddington and Bristol and Swansea.Read

Transport Watch: Crossrail gets the go ahead but questions remain

Both the Mayor of London and the new Minister of Transport, Phil Hammond, have said that Crossrail will go ahead but as always, "the devil is in the detail”, and rumours about Crossrail still abound.Read

Transport Watch: Tube crime falling despite stabbing

The recent fatal stabbing at Victoria Underground Station during the peak perhaps overshadows the news that crime on the Underground is falling. Read

Transport Watch: Light at the end of the tunnel for train commuters?

Serious overcrowding and passengers being left behind at stations in the Borough cannot be allowed to continue.Read

Transport watch: Fares up but is there more to come?

* BUS and train fares in London have risen, much to the consternation of all passengers, but Londoners have been warned there may yet be more fare rises to follow.Read

Transport Watch: Footsore residents get bus service

AT LAST the footsore residents of Wood End are to get a bus service. It may not exactly follow the route that they hoped it would but at least it is a step forward and it comes into being on September 5.Read

Transport Watch: 'Tube crime down for third consecutive year'

LESS than one in three passengers on the Greenford Branch surveyed by the Ealing Passenger Transport Users' Group favoured a high frequency shuttle service to West Ealing rather than a less frequent service continuing along the line to Ealing Broadway and Acton.Read

Transport watch: commuters could soon be travelling to work by Aston Martin

The dust has yet to settle on the National Concessionary Fares Scheme, but it is now clear that the concession does not extend to services where more than half of the seats can be pre-booked, nor to special events, seasonal or short season services.Read

Transport watch: Changes could benefit bus passengers

After a long period of silence London Buses has unveiled changes which could benefit bus passengers in the borough.Read

Transport watch: Introducing winter timetables

If you are planning a train journey later this month do check the departure times, because next weekend is the day all the national rail operators introduce their winter timetables.Read

Transport Watch: Overground revenues rise

The London Overground, which operates services through Acton Central and South Acton has seen its revenues rise by 17 per cent and ticketless travel fall from around 15 per cent to three per cent since it took over from Silverlink a year ago.Read

Transport Watch: Designing the bus of the future

Could you design London's bus of the future, and go down in history as the designer of the new Routemaster?Read

Transport watch: Green lights will be history before Crossrail arrives

There can be few, if any, people in Ealing who now do not know that Crossrail has been given the 'greenRead