Tag archive for ‘Tube’
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Mayor calls on Darling to plug PPP ‘black hole’
Boris Johnson has written to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, requesting that the Government ensure Londoners are not shortchanged after PPP Arbiter Chris Bolt determ[...]
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RMT Announces Two Tube Strikes
The RMT has announced members working as cleaners and maintenance staff on the London Underground are to stage two strikes over pay.
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Metronet Control Passes To TfL
Control of the failed tube contractor Metronet, which collapsed last year after shareholders withdrew support from the company, officially passed to Transport for London at one min[...]
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Mayor Appoints New Chief of Staff
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has named businessman Tim Parker as his new Chief of Staff and ‘Chief Executive’ of the GLA Group, City Hall announced earlier today.
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Livingstone Sets Out ‘Transport Choice’
Ken Livingstone has said the future of transport in London is 'the big choice' facing voters next week.
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Negativity at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings
Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and Brian Paddick spent this morning at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings at Reuters House, Canary Wharf where they addressed an audience of business lea[...]
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Candidates Condemn Tube Strikes
Mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick have condemned the announcement of a 72-hour strike by London Underground workers in a row over safety.
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Darling, Brown and Byers – May We Have Our Apology?
Many of the critics who slammed Ken Livingstone's decision to mount a legal challenge against the Tube PPP are now ministers hoping he'll secure their party a much needed victory i[...]
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Livingstone Vindicated as Brown Bails Out Metronet
The Government yesterday performed a humiliating u-turn when it announced a £1.7bn 'grant' to pay creditors of Metronet, the failed PPP operator responsible for maintenance of 9 [...]
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Johnson Vows To ‘Stop RMT Stranglehold’ on London
Tory Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has committed himself to 'stopping the
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TfL Submit Formal Metronet Bid
Transport for London has formally bid to take over collapsed tube maintenance company Metronet it has been announced.
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Livingstone Attacks Johnson ‘Transport Blunders’
As the Conservatives enter the second week of hustings to select a candidate for Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has attacked what he called front-runner Boris Johnson's 'damaging [...]
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Tube Strike Goes Ahead
Tube passengers have been hit disruption this evening after the RMT union proceeded with a planned 72-hours strike.
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Mayor Calls For Strikes Not To Proceed
Ken Livingstone has today written to all unions representing staff at troubled Tube PPP contractor Metronet calling for their planned strikes not to proceed in light of assurances [...]
