Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 21

The Metropolitan

The WikiProject London Transport Newsletter
Issue 21 - January 2010)

December 2009 | February

London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

January 2010

East London Line extension nearly complete

Rotherhithe Tunnel to close from Sunday to Thursday nights for the next three weeks for installation of pedestrian signage, power cables and additional pollution monitoring equipment.

December 2009

Oyster Pay-as-you-go introduced across all London stations in early January

Wrightbus to build the routemaster-based new London bus design

RMT accepts London Underground's staff payment deal

Closure of Fareham Street means bus diversions. This is so that there can be construction works on the Crossrail interchange at Tottenham Court Road station.

Arbiter finds that costs of Tube Lines upgrade closer to London Underground ltd estimate than theirs.

Leigible London scheme introduced to make information more available for pedestrians. This is first being used in the borough of Richmond upon Thames

When the London cycle hire scheme is launched, the first half hour will be free

Over £3 million to be spent on improving loca transport in Merton borough and other funding allocated to ther boroughs across London for transport improvements

Borough High Street to be northbopund only untril July due to major utility and gas works

Redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road to begin in early 2010

Permits for roadworks to be introduced on January 11th 2010

ING direct sponsor free travel on the Underground at New Year's Eve

Maida Vale tube station received the National Rail Heritage Award due to its modernisation

Member News

No new members to report.

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

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is now a candidate for featured article. Otherwise this and the last last couple of months have again been fairly quiet. The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved.

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

View of Old London Bridge, circa 1632 by Claude de Jongh.

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Sunil060902)

Stratford International station opened for Southeastern preview services on 30 November 2009.
Westbound platforms at Stratford International.
The new northern entrance and ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station opened on 29 November 2009.
The new northern ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station.
The footbridge linking the mainline (c2c) and DLR platforms at Limehouse station opened in late November 2009.
The new South Quay DLR station opened on 26 October 2009.
South Quay new station platforms looking west.
The bay platform at Mudchute DLR station opened in early October 2009.

From the editor

Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.

Thank you to Sunil060902 for the December gallery update

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Contributors to this Issue

Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

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

Featured Articles & Lists

FAC/FLC

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Good Articles

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is currently a featured article candidate. Well done to all involved.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was demoted from featured article status in mid-November.

Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

The percentage of article assessed remains roughly the same as in October

Other announcements

Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

requested to be updated

Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts

Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

Did you know...

...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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