Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 28

The Metropolitan

London Transport News

October

September

London Overgound gives 81% satsfaction in recent survey
Extra Police Officers join elite cycle service
Construction of new maitenance facility began at Neasden depot
Elephant & Castle's southern roundabout to be replaced by traffic lights on 11 October
Larger vans and minibuses to be included in the Low Emission Zone from January 2012
North Acton Tube station scoops fruit and veg award while High Barnet blooms in light of Best Overall Garden prize
New electric stock completed for London Overground
New Central Line platform at Stratford
Kender Street Triangle to switch to two-way traffic this weekend

August

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

Four were promoted to featured article status in August; plus two were promoted in September
Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway was promoted in August and Aldwych tube station in September to Good Article status.
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield is currently a featured article status candidate
A series of articles related to Brill Tramway were promoted to featured topic status in October
There are currently 2,656 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

User:WhisperToMe (talk · contribs) has requested photos of the Compass Centre at Heathrow, especially if the BAA logo is included if possible.
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
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 participation in the project, the usefulness of Category:Transport architecture in London, unopened stations in London, reorganising the District Line's RDT, a brief celebration of four years of the project and some of the articles have been selected for Wikipedia 0.8 release.
In other project related discussions included the unopened stations, identifying train vehicles and a request for taking photos of the Compass Centre

Members

Newest members: Redrose64 (talk · contribs) joined in August and Sgreen93 (talk · contribs) joined in September
Number of active participants is 75

Editorial

Editor: Simply south (talk)
All suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcome at feedback page or User talk:Simply south

Best Articles

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Most visited pages

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