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London Transport News
November
- 200 toys donated from TfL Lost Property Office to the Salvation Army
- Third tube strike occurs
- A new capaign is launched on dangers of unbooked minicabs
- Kender Street Triangle improvement works completed
- Cycle Hire scheme to be available for casual users
- East London Transity has been awarded the Infrastructure award at 2010 UK Bus awards
- Facelift of London Bridge bus station begins
- Six-month trial of PM10 dust surpressant to reduce air pollution
- Finsbury Park bus station closes until 10 December
- Bus route 18 goes double-decker
- Victoria Station upgrade wins 2010 Bentley Be Inspired award for "most outstanding project within the Rail and Transit sector"
- Electric vehicle charging network to go live spring 2011
- EU funding helps TfL obtain three more hydrogen-powerd busses
- Ticket office reopens at Victoria
- Another tube strike occurs
October
- Wi-Fi made available at Charing Cross tube station
- Celebrities help promote teen road safety campaign
- Congestion Charge Western Extension to end by Christmas but with launch of Congestion Charge Auto-pay
- Minimal fare rises with concessionary ad free travel protected in 2011
- Bus route 149 goes to double-decker reducing fare dodging
- North London film maker wins Cycling film award
- Maida Vale tube station receives National Rail Heritage award
- Teenage winners of an international poetry competition have their poems displayed on the London Underground
- Cycle scheme hits one million journeys
- Director of London Rail, Ian Brown, to retire
- Drivers urged to look out for motorcyclists in bus lanes
- Tube strike occurs
For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)
Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list
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- Many, many apologies for skipping another month but i had to leave it due to unexpected personal reasons (not Wikipedia related). Anyway, here is the December edition.
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