Policy - Page 8

Transport for London is launching a new campaign to tackle violence and aggression against its staff, based on the message ‘Abuse has consequences’.

ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, has secured a pay offer that it will recommend its members accept.

Passengers on London Underground’s Victoria Line often swelter in temperatures of over 31 degrees, and the situation is getting worse despite efforts to cool down stations and install air conditioning on trains.

Transport for London is starting design work on making a further three Tube stations step-free: Alperton, Arnos Grove and Eastcote.

Transport for London (TfL) has announced plans to move forward with a Docklands Light Railway extension from Gallions Reach to Thamesmead, via Beckton Riverside, following overwhelming public support for the project.

Eventual rail nationalisation moved one step closer to reality as the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill cleared its first hurdle as MP’s voted 351 to 84 to give the bill a second reading on 30 July.

DfT OLR Holdings Limited (DOHL) the company which runs the nationalised train operators on behalf of the Department for Transport has released its annual report, showing it was a challenging year for performance as well as showing slow progress in cutting the subsidies paid for each of the four operators that it currently runs.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released its annual assessment of the industry, highlighting that overall performance of the network had stabilised during the last year (excluding the Wales and Western Region) however, it did warn that Network Rail had work to do on coping better with severe weather.

Labour’s new team at the Department for Transport is a mixture of the familiar and the unknown.

To some, Royal Mail’s decision to move its postal deliveries from rail to road, and in turn decommission its remaining fleet of trains (which currently stands at a fleet of six Class 325 electrics), was a long time coming.