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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

TfL Commissioner: Bakerloo extension could be running by 2030

Mar

2015

BC's prediction is that the Bakerloo line extension south to Lewisham will come a decade sooner than originally predicted and will be operational by 2030.Our reasoning has been that it is cheap and easy to deliver (by the standards of London transport schemes), has obvious regeneration benefits and will cause minimal disruption. For these reasons, ...

East London Line to go all night from 2017 [UPDATED]

Feb

2015

The BBC reports that London Overground will run 24-hour weekend services from 2017 as part of a a wider programme to boost London's night-time economy. The article says:"Weekend trains are due to start running 24-hours on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines by the end of the year. Night-time services will be extended ...

96% of Londoners say get on with the Bakerloo Line extension

Jan

2015

An easy question, with a resounding answer. Does everyone want a southern extension of the Bakerloo Line? Yes. Yes, we do.The public consultation is now over and the margin of victory for the yes camp is on a par with the referendum asking the Falkland Islanders asking them if they want to remain a UK ...

Orange order for TfL’s tangerine dream

Jan

2015

Officer Gilpin: You ever hear the expression the simplest answer is often the correct one?Detective Boney: Actually, I have never found that to be true. - Gone GirlThe Transport Committee's statement in support of the Bakerloo Line extension also asks for some much-needed clarity in terms of the options to extend the East London Line south ...

London Assembly Committee backs Bakerloo Line extension

Jan

2015

The Transport Committee of the London Assembly has announced its support for the Bakerloo Line extension to South East London, but has shamelessly copped out of backing one of the proposed routes (the Old Kent Road) over the other (Camberwell).The letter, which you can read here, argues that whichever route is chosen, the loser should ...

TfL launches Ultra Low Emissions Zone consultation

Jan

2015

TfL has launched a public consultation on its plans to create an Ultra Low Emission Zone in central London. Air pollution is a major killer in London and the capital has regularly failed to meet European air quality standards, so drastic action is required. A ULEZ would be similar similar to the Congestion Charge zone, requiring ...

National Infrastructure Plan namechecks Bakerloo and Rotherhithe bridge

Dec

2014

An email from Southwark MP Simon Hughes provides more evidence that the Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham is moving steadily up the transport agenda. There's also an encouraging nod towards the idea of a bridge at Rotherhithe. He writes:In today's National Infrastructure Plan (page 52), the government has signalled its interest in a Bakerloo Line ...

Elevator bitch

Nov

2014

The lift access to the northbound platform of Brockley Station is not only ugly and over-engineered, it's also taking an age to build.Now, thanks some probing from BCer Peter Laurie, London Overground have confirmed that the lift won't be operational until next year.

Longer East London Line trains are here!

Nov

2014

TfL's just-in-time delivery means that extra capacity on the East London Line should just about offset the extra space taken up by passengers' winter coats this Christmas. Monkeyboy sent us this release and these photos from the launch of the longer trains yesterday, which confirmed that five-carriage service will start next week. TfL says:A special preview ...

TfL unveils plans for a better (but not much) Deptford Broadway

Nov

2014

Deptford Dame has found TfL's plans to remodel the disastrous Deptford Broadway road junction, which is scary to navigate on foot, on a bike or in a car. TfL's main objective is to make it safer for pedestrians, but as DD says, the plans are basically putting lipstick on a pig and the provision for ...