London News and Comment
The demands are the result of Westminster Council’s decision to walk away from TfL and Mayor Sadiq Khan’s flagship project to pedestrianise Oxford Street and are set out in a ‘closedown report’ presented to the TfL board last month but withheld from publication.
Jubilee line passengers will be able to make and receive mobile phone calls on platforms and in tunnels for the first time from March 2020 after Transport for London confirmed it will switch on 4G coverage between Westminster and Canning Town for a trial period.
The capital’s transport agency has hired aviation executive Andy Lord, previously Executive Vice President for Menzies Aviation and a former British Airways worker, to take over from Tube boss Nigel Holness.
Officials will assess whether it can help planners and policy makers better understand how local populations move around during the course of the day and where visitors to a given area originate from.
The prospect of a Boxing Day service was first raised in 2016 when the new contract between TfL and Arriva made provision for trains to run on the bank holiday.
