Mayor Boris' Transport Strategy
Turnham Green on the Piccadilly Line
http://www.london.gov.uk/publication/mayors-transport-strategy
After discussion with EPTUG, Caroline Pidgeon AM has persuaded London Underground to display a message on the boards to say that trains only stop early mornings & late evenings.
EPTUG outside Turnham Green tube station
on
Saturday 27th March 2010 with Caroline Pidgeon AM
She had been given a letter for Mayor Boris Johnson requesting a meeting
to discuss getting Piccadilly line trains to stop at
Turnham Green all day.
Meeting the parties last September
EPTUG were the first to get the politicians together before the election.
At our meeting on 21st September 2009, support for the plan to move local buses off Haven Green and into a purpose built bus station over the platforms of Ealing Broadway Station received a welcome boost. All three parties represented on the Council as well as the Greens confirmed that they would include the plan in their election manifestos.
However Angie Bray (the then prospective parliamentary candidate) expressed concern that a £50m bus station at Ealing was “not on at the moment”. Angie is now MP for Ealing Central & Acton.
Chiltern Line
See agreed timetables from May 2010
Buses
Members meeting
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route 607 runs on Sundays
Tuesday 13th April 2010 in Ealing Town Hall, Nelson room.
The speaker was Tim Bellenger of London Travelwatch
High Speed 2 announced
Greenford Line
At that time there will be 4 trains an hour between Greenford and West Ealing which should connect with 4 Crossrail trains an hour.
Rolling Stock
Freedom Passes
Serious overcrowding and passengers being left behind at stations in the Borough cannot be allowed to continue.
That was the clear message given to the Minister for Transport, Chris Mole MP by representatives of EPTUG when they met the Minister at the House of Commons recently.
All existing passes will cease to be valid at the end of March so if you have not applied to renew your pass you must do so immediately. Forms are available from any local Post Office and once completed should be handed back together with a passport size photograph, a utilities bill confirming residency and the current Freedom Pass, although the latter items will not be retained.
Progress of the new pass issue can be followed by referring to the TfL website www.tfl.gov.uk
Crossrail Scrutiny Committee
Ealing Broadway station
Lido Junction
Read the presentation by Richard Chilton
of Save Ealing's Centre
EPTUG has been helping local residents with the problem of pedestrian safety in this area. A report has been produced and sent to politicians at all levels.
Buses at Ealing Broadway
Chiltern Line
But these bus routes terminate at the station precisely because that is where the passengers want go to/come from. The bus routes are rather like extensions to the two underground lines.
But there is one possibility:
Route E8 could be linked to route 112 as both routes run at the same frequency.
Chiltern Railways Timetable Changes in December 2009
The morning and evening peak services between Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham are slightly retimed in order to accommodate the London Underground timetable changes.
In addition some changes are made to the evening peak services out of Marylebone in order to improve on reliability; otherwise the rest of the timetable remains largely unaltered.
CROSSRAIL
Our Proposal
We would like to see a new service operating twice hourly between Greenford and Clapham Junction. This would be a 3 car diesel service requiring the allocation of 3 units and crews. These could be provided by FGW or when post 2012 the Gospel Oak – Barking Line is electrified, units from that service.
25th February 2009
Crossrail’s
wider economic boost to London and South East revealed
A study shows the new railway will deliver over £1.2bn a year in
transport and productivity benefits.
The benefits for the London Borough of Ealing are predicted to be £56.9
million per year.