17 September –
Piccadilly line services to Heathrow Terminal 4 (T4) station resumed service on the morning of Sunday 17 September, signalling the latest milestone in the project to extend the line to Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5).
27 September – The
Central line was named as the best rail link in London at the National Rail Awards, held in the capital earlier this month.
30 November – The
Piccadilly line is 100 years old on 15 December. To celebrate the centenary of one of the Tube's most well-loved lines, London Underground (LU) is planning a series of events.
4 December – Londoners are once again set to benefit from free travel this New Year's Eve, thanks to a deal announced today by Transport for London (TfL).
5 December – Eleven stations currently managed by Silverlink Metro will become the responsibility of LUL when the North London Railway transfers to TfL next November.
5 December – Docklands Light Railway (DLR), part of Transport for London, has scooped the London Planning Award for 'Best Public Sector Planning Organisation'.
6 December – TfL Commissioner reveals plans to upgrade Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.
6 December – Metronet Rail today unveiled the look of new air-conditioned Tube trains, which will run on four of the 12 lines on the London Underground.
7 December – On 10 December, the stretch of the North London line from Stratford to Canning Town will close in order for its conversion to
DLR operation.
8 December – Annual Tube Christmas alcohol safety campaign launches,
London Underground and
British Transport Police today officially launched its annual Christmas alcohol safety campaign.
11 December – The project to extend the
Docklands Light Railway to Stratford International reached a major milestone, with part of the North London line transferring to DLR.
13 December – An extra public exhibition is being held today as part of the consultation on route options for the extension of Croydon Tramlink to Crystal Palace.
2007
15 January –
Ken Livingstone and Transport Commissioner
Peter Hendy today opened a newly improved
Finsbury Park Transport Interchange, one of the busiest stations outside of central London.
26 March – Ford joins London campaign to reduce the number of cyclists injured in collisions with HGVs.
28 March – Transport for London (TfL) today revealed that over the last year London Underground (LU) carried one billion passengers for the first time in its 144-year history.
3 April – New-style Bus Saver tickets are now on sale after the tickets had to have a complete make-over to help combat the biggest counterfeit operation ever seen on the capital’s transport system.
4 April – Transport for London revealed that during 2006, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) carried more than 60 million people, a first in its 20 years in operation.
12 June – Faster, cheaper, easier Oyster ticketing has led to a massive reduction in tickets sold at stations, heralding changes in the way some Tube stations will be operated and passengers cared for, London Underground (LU) said today.
11 April – This year’s annual taxi fare revision has been held down below the rate of inflation.
30 September – Transport for London has announced that fares on buses will be 10p cheaper using Oyster so down to 90p. This is being funded by revenues from other public transportation, with no increase in costs.
27 November – Visitors to the Bond Street area will be able to find their way around with ease from today (27 November), thanks to a new system of pedestrian information called
Legible London.
6 December – Transport for London (TfL) is bringing Congestion Charge penalties into line with the rate of penalties issued by London Boroughs for traffic and parking offences.
10 December – A new station on the
Docklands Light Railway was opened today at
Langdon Park, Tower Hamlets, providing better access throughout London's public transport network for thousands of residents.
27 December –
Transport for London revealed today that Friday 7 December 2007 was the busiest day on
the Tube ever.
15 January – With the start of the Low Emission Zone on 4 February, Transport for London (TfL) today reminded operators with vehicles that don't meet Low Emission Zone standards to make sure that they have taken all reasonable steps to comply, for example, by fitting their vehicles with emissions abatement equipment.
21 January – The London Low Emission Zone, which aims to reduce harmful emissions from the most polluting diesel-engined lorries, coaches, and buses goes live on Monday 4 February.
21 January – Bombardier To Supply 24 Diesel Multiple Unit Cars To Angel Trains In 44 Million Euro Contract For The UK.
2 February –
Shepherd's Bush underground station on the
Central line closes for eight months of rebuilding and refurbishment works including the reconstruction of the surface building and replacement of escalators.
16 February – Last
District line train to be refurbished carries passengers for the last time today (15 February 2008).
18 February – Fifth Anniversary of Congestion Charge that changed transport policy across the world. Today (17 February) is the fifth anniversary of the central London Congestion Charge.
17 March –
Transport for London has announced that it is to take over running
Tramlink in order to reduce costs, have better integration and focus more on investment.
18 March – TfL will be running up to 16 buses an hour to serve the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The changes to the TfL bus service will be introduced on Saturday 22 March in readiness for the opening of Terminal 5 on 27 March.
31 March – A giant 350-tonne bridge has been lowered into place by a crane for the
East London Line extension through Shoreditch.
1 June – A ban on the consumption of alcohol on the Underground leads to the closure of six stations when protests got out of hand.
30 June – Giant cinema-style screens to beam movie trailers and advertising to Tube passengers
2 July – Twickenham Bridge celebrates its 75th anniversary on the 3rd of July.
4 July – TfL announces a competition for designing a new iconic bus for London, to be based on the
Routemaster.
7 July – The second phase of the
London Low Emission Zone begins, affecting buses and coaches, and lorries over 3.5 tonnes. New emission standards are set and a 28 day warning is given to vehicles that do not comply.
12 October – Shepherd's Bush Underground station on the
Hammersmith & City line is renamed
Shepherd's Bush Market to distinguish it from the Central line and London Overground stations of the same name.
18 December –
London Overground will be closed from
Gospel Oak to
Stratford between 20 February and 1 June 2010 for line, signalling and platform upgrades.
2010
2 January – Use of
Oyster cards is extended to all 350
National Rail stations in London area, bringing a single payment system into use for Underground, DLR, trains, buses and river services.
24 June –
Hammersmith & City line and
Circle line services between
Hammersmith and
Paddington will close for upgrade works for three weeks from 24 July to 15 August. Upgrades will include platform lengthening and track work.
2 August – The first of 191 air-conditioned
S Stock trains enters passenger service.
4 August – A £300 million contract is let for the upgrade of
Bond Street station.
13 August – Following a failure of a coupling, an engineering train runs out of control on the
Northern line for nearly four miles from
Archway to
Warren Street.
5 September – The
Central line gains an additional westbound platform at
Stratford station, affording passengers improved access to/from the
Jubilee line and the
DLR, as well as the station exit.
28 September – Roundabout at
Elephant & Castle to be removed and replaced with a traffic light signalled junction to improve traffic flow.
20 October – The western extension of the
London congestion charge zone will be removed from 25 December. An automatic payment system will be introduced for the remainder of the system on 4 January 2011 and the minimum non-concessionary charge will increase to £9.
15 April – A scrap yard fire in
Mill Hill, north London closes seven miles of the
M1 motorway between junctions 1 and 4 owing to damage to the structure of a pre-cast concrete bridge carrying the road.
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27 May – London Mayor
Boris Johnson launches
Source London, a city wide network of electric vehicle charging points. Starting with 150 locations, the network is planned to expand to 1,300 locations by 2013.
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27 May – London Mayor
Boris Johnson test drives the first engineering prototype of the low-emission
New Bus for London, planned for introduction in 2012.
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31 May – City Cruises announces a new three deck, 37 metre-long 600 passenger River Liner. The boat is due to enter service in time for the
London 2012 Olympics.
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3 June – Crime on the London Underground and Docklands Light Railway fell by 7 per cent in the past year. Over the same period, crime on
London's buses fell by 4 per cent.
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3 June – A new bridge under the
A11 at
Bow reconnects two sections of the
Lee Navigationtowpath enabling an uninterrupted walking and cycling route from the River Thames to
Hertfordshire.
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7 June – Forgetful passengers left 207,000 items on
Transport for London operated services last year, the highest number of misplaced items in the Lost Property Office's history.
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16 June –
Heathrow Airport launches a noise reduction plan which aims to eliminate noiser aircraft by 2015.
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23 June – Strikes planned by transport union
RMT over the sacking of a tube train driver have been called off following an
employment tribunal decision that he should be reinstated in a non-operational role.
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29 June – 2.3 billion passenger journeys were made on
London's buses in the last financial year, an increase of 60 percent since 2000.
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5 July – Network Rail submits a planning application for the redevelopment of
London Bridge station.
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19 August – After being lifted from the River Thames,
Tugboat "Chiefton" is placed on a barge to be taken away for investigations. The body of the missing crew man was discovered in the river on 15 August.
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22 August –
Transport for London announces a consultation on proposals for a lane rental scheme to reduce disruption caused by roadworks.
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19 September – The first section of the refurbished roof over
King's Cross mainline station is revealed after up to 10 mm of paint is grit-blasted off and yellowed
fibre-glass sheets are replaced with new glazing.
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20 September –
Heathrow Airport formally unveils Heathrow Pods, a system of driverless electric vehicles which can carry four passengers along a 3.8 km guided route between
Terminal 5 Business Car Park and the main terminal. Up to 500,000 passengers are expected to use it each year.
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28 September – Plans are unveiled for a new public square in front of
King's Cross station which will replace the 1970s concourse extension.
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28 September – To provide additional trains on the
District line, weekday tube services on the
Kensington (Olympia) branch will end in December. Services will continue to run at weekends and for exhibitions.
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30 September – Temporary repairs will be carried out to the
Hammersmith Flyover to keep it open whilst plans for permanent replacement are made.
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21 December – From 3 January 2012 large vans and minibuses will be subject to
London low emission zone controls. Buses, lorries and coaches will be subject to higher
Euro IV emission standards.
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23 December – Urgent structural investigations close
Hammersmith Flyover until the beginning of January 2012.
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2012
12 January – One lane of the
Hammersmith Flyover opens in each direction for cars and light vehicles only whilst repairs to the structure continue.
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30 January – The service interval on the
Bank to
Woolwich section of the DLR is reduced to eight minutes and trains are extended to three cars.
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12 April – Installation of tensioning cables will begin on
Hammersmith Flyover next week. The work, which will require overnight closures, will bring the structure back to full operation by June.
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15 April – After
Addison Lee encourages its
minicab drivers to ignore restrictions and to drive in
bus lanes,
Transport for London warns that they may face prosecution and lose of their private hire licence.
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4 May – Phyllis, the first of the 1,000 tonne tunnel boring machines to be used in the construction of
Crossrail starts boring at
Royal Oak, heading towards
Paddington.
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15 May –
TfL announces that passenger journeys for 2011/12 hit a new annual record of 1.171 billion with trains travelling 72.4 million kilometres.
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18 May – The final two platforms to open at
Blackfriars station are brought into use, enabling 700 more trains to serve the station each week.
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1 June – Up to 80 Underground stations will have
wifi services by the end of July, with up to 120 by the end of 2012.
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27 June – The proposed
Silvertown Tunnel, planned to relieve the
Blackwall Tunnel, is designated a nationally significant project, making it more likely to happen.
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29 June – Road markings for the Olympic Route Network are put on roads in advance of their usage from 25 July.
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10 July – Use of the
hard shoulder of the
M25 motorway by traffic will be permitted between junctions 5 and 7 if plans for a
managed motorway upgrade to increase capacity proceed.
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13 July – The
M4 motorway reopens after being closed for a week of emergency repair works on the Boston Manor viaduct between junctions 2 and 3 in west London.
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31 August – The Docklands Light Railway celebrates 25 years since its opening with 15 stations on 31 August 1987. Extensions mean it now serves 45 stations.
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9 January –
Royal Mail issues a set of commemorative stamps to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first part of the
London Underground.
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5 February – Business group London First announces final route and station proposals for
Crossrail 2 running from south-west to north-east London.
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24 July – Payment of
London congestion charge fees in shops and petrol stations end. All payments must be made through one of the existing automatic payment methods.
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5 August –
Transport for London seeks proposals from architects to convert
55 Broadway to a residential development once the organisation moves out of its headquarters.
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23 September – Overnight closures of the
Hammersmith flyover will begin in October to enable structural repairs, drainage upgrades, waterproofing and resurfacing to be carried on the 1960s elevated road.
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27 September –
Eurostar announces plans for a London to
Amsterdam service to start in December 2016.
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4 October – Train manufacturer
Siemens reveals a mock-up of a future tube train to be offered to
London Underground when the next train supply contracts are tendered.
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29 May – In an effort to resolve a dispute with the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association over the operation of
Uber in London,
Transport for London seeks judgement in the High Court on whether
GPS-enabled phones using Uber
mobile apps constitute illegal private use "
taximeters".
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18 July – The contract to operate
Crossrail services is awarded to
MTR Corporation for eight years with an option available to
Transport for London to extend the concession for a further two years.
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30 January – After being suspended for three days due to flooding in the tunnels near
Farringdon,
Thameslink services resume through-running between Farringdon and
St Pancras.
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4 February – Plans are approved to expand facilities at
London City Airport to enable an increase from 70,000 flights to 111,000 flights per year.
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13 May – The first mile-long section of new track for
Crossrail services has been laid in south-east London.
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4 June – Tunnel boring works on
Crossrail are completed with the final break through at
Farringdon station marking the end of the excavation of 26 miles (42 km) of tunnels.
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2016
24 May – A spillage of fuel and
hydraulic fluid in the
Blackwall tunnel causes the northbound bore of the tunnel to be closed for clean-up and resurfacing of the road.
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14 June –
Transport for London introduces Quietway 1 running between
Waterloo and
Greenwich, the first of a series of
Quietways, pedestrian and cycle routes planned to follow quiet roads and footpaths avoiding traffic.
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20 August – 50,000 passengers use the
Night Tube on its first night of operation.
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24 September –
Gospel Oak to Barking Line closes until February 2017 to enable the second phase of modifications to tracks and bridges needed for the electrification of the line.
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1 October –
Tower Bridge closes for three months for replacement of the road deck.
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26 October – Following many years of review, the government has approved construction of a third runway at
Heathrow Airport in preference to proposals for
other airport expansion projects. The new runway will be constructed to the north-west of the existing runways and over the
M25 motorway.
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29 October – Completing the
M25 motorway, the final section between junctions 19 to 23 was formally opened 30 years ago by Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher.
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13 July – The final timetable for
Elizabeth line services is published with off-peak services in the central section increased to 20 trains per hour and
Heathrow Terminal 5 station being added to the service.
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14 September – The installation of the permanent track for the Elizabeth line is completed with the last piece installed at
Whitechapel station.
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22 September –
Transport for London announces that it will not renew
Uber's licence to operate when it expires on 30 September as it considers that the company "is not fit and proper to hold a
private hire operator licence".
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30 October – The first examples of a new model of the
Santander Cycles bikes come into use. Manufactured by
Pashley Cycles, it will gradually replace the original model.
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30 November – The
Mayor of London announces proposals to extend the
Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (due to come into force in April 2019) London-wide for Lorries, buses and coaches from 26 October 2020 and to the boundary of the
North Circular and
South Circular roads for cars, vans and motorbikes from 25 October 2021.
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31 August – The opening of the
Elizabeth line has been delayed from December 2018 to Autumn 2019 to provide time for infrastructure to be completed and trains to be test.
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11 December – The government grants a further loan of £1 billion to
Crossrail to fund project overspends and it is announced that the delayed opening date of Autumn 2019 is not going to be achieved.
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20 February –
Transport for London begins a four-week consultation in
Sutton of an app that allows users to book minibus seats in advance of a one year trial.
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10 April –
Hammersmith Bridge closes indefinitely to vehicles due to critical structural faults being identified. Repair costs are estimated to be at least £40 million.
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25 April –
Crossrail announces that the central section of the Elizabeth line will be completed and opened between October 2020 and March 2021, except for
Bond Street station, which will open later.
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9 July – An engineering train derails on the approaches to
Victoria station blocking lines into the mainline station and disrupting services all day.
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3 September – Closed since April 2019, the first phase of repair works begins on
Hammersmith Bridge. The estimated total cost of the repairs is £120 million.
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6 September –
Transport for London announces plans to lower speed limits to 20 miles per hour on 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) of main roads that it controls in central London.
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9 September – After 86 years at
Baker Street, London Underground's Lost Property Office will move to Pelham Street in
South Kensington in October.
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24 September –
Transport for London issues
Uber with a two-month operator licence extension to the existing conditional licence.
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26 September –
TfL Rail will take over the operation of stopping services between
Paddington and
Reading replacing
GWR on 15 December. From 2 January 2020
contactless payment will be available on the route.
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25 November –
Transport for London announces that it will not grant
Uber a new private hire operator's licence due to a "pattern of failures". Uber will appeal the decision and will continue to operate during the appeal process.
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10 January –
Crossrail announces that
Elizabeth line services through central London are expected to begin in the summer of 2021.
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27 February – A
judicial review decides that the government failed to consider its Climate Policy when approving
Heathrow Airport's third runway.
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2 March –
Transport for London introduces a 20 mph speed limit on central London roads it manages.
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10 June – Demand for the
Santander Cycles hire system achieves its highest ever number of hires in a week and
Transport for London announces plans to introduce 1,700 additional bicyles bringing the fleet to more than 14,000.
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5 August – A third escalator will be installed at
Marylebone Underground station replacing a fixed start before the existing escalators which date from 1943 will be replaced one by one.
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13 August – Having been closed to road vehicles since April 2019,
Hammersmith Bridge is closed to pedestrians and cyclists following the discovery of more microfractures in cast iron thought to be caused by high temperatures.
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28 October – Tunnelling work at
Bank Underground station is completed as part of improvements of the stations facilities.
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28 October – Repairs to Hammersmith Bridge are expected to cost more than £125 million and take up to 6.5 years, the panel established to manage its repair advises.
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1 November –
Transport for London obtains £1.8 billion financial support from the government to help cover the shortfall in revenue caused by COVID-19-related reductions in passengers.
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28 July –
Transport for London begins a consultation on
congestion zone charges, including restoring the normal weekday end time, making weekend charges permanent and applying charges on bank holidays.
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