Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 22

The Metropolitan

The WikiProject London Transport Newsletter
Issue 22 - February 2010)

January 2010 | March

London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

February 2010

Motorcycling is to get safer with the creation of the London Motorcycle Policy Unit, a division of the Metropolitan Police that is a new dedicated team of motorcycle safety experts working to reduce motorcycle casualties across the Capital.

Major improvement works set for the New Cross area

Smart Travel Sutton scheme sees a 75% increase in cycling and sustainable transport usage in the brough of Sutton

Taxi fares to increase by 2.3 per cent to meet higher running costs

New Pegasus crossings intalled over A3 between Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park

Bounds Green has gained Grade II Listed status from English Heritage

January 2010

A new walking route from Covent Garden to Holborn is completed, with a public space at Great Queen Street at its centre

RMT strike planned

London Undeground celebrate's the Royal Society's 350th Anniverseary with a set of poems

DLR Bank platforms reopen in February following upgrade works

Investment Programme Advisory Group set up

Bus routes 10 and 33 will become 24 hour services

Life stories are introduced on the Jubilee Line

Average speed cameras to be trialled on the A13

Safety, lighting and communication improvement works are to begin february to bring Blackwall Tunnel to 21st century standards

Twelve Outer London boroughs are selected to become cycling havens

Grants are given to community groups to boost cycling

New posters on the Underground network help to promote face equality to help tackle stereotypes on children with disfigurements

East London Line extension nearly complete

Rotherhithe Tunnel to close from Sunday to Thursday nights for the next three weeks for installation of pedestrian signage, power cables and additional pollution monitoring equipment.

Oyster Pay-as-you-go introduced across all London stations in early January

Member News

APHST (talk · contribs) joins the project bringing our total number of participants to 78. Welcome to APHST!

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is now a featured article and Upminster Bridge tube station is also now a good article. BOAC Flight 712 has also bee nominated for Good article status. North Greenwich railway station was proposed for being moved but faced with opposition, this did not happen.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

View of Old London Bridge, circa 1632 by Claude de Jongh.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Arriva436)

Docklands Light Railway trains on and under the Westferry flyover.
Three Routemasters of The Arriva Heritage Fleet at Covent Garden.
London General articulated Citaro passing Trafalgar Square on route 453.
Arriva London articulated Citaro turning in Shaftesbury Avenue, on now double-deck route 38.
Three Transdev London buses lined up, decorated for the Kingston park and ride.
A Northern Line train leaving the tunnel just north of Hendon Central station.
A Greyhound UK coach, usually running between London, Southampton and Portsmouth, seen in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on a promotional visit.

From the editor

Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.

Thank you to Arriva436 for the February gallery update

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Contributors to this Issue

Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)
Arriva436 (talk · contribs) - (Gallery)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Lists of articles needing cleanup
Expand : These top 10 favourite articles to Good Article: J. P. Morgan · Heathrow Airport · River Thames · London Bridge · London Underground · London Bridge (Lake Havasu City) · Gatwick Airport · London Congestion Charge · Tube map · Tower Bridge These top importance articles to Good Article: 7 July 2005 London bombings · Buses in London · Crossrail · London Passenger Transport Board · London Transport (brand) · London Transport Museum · Transport for London · Transport in London
Photo : Upload your non-copyrighted London transportation images to Wikimedia Commons
Stubs : Improve a stub article
Update : London low emission zone, London congestion charge
Other :
- Suggest: A Did You Know...? fact here or an Anniversary fact here.
- Patrol: Recent changes
- Join: Become a member of WikiProject London Transport or encourage others

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to featured article status in January 2010. Well done to all involved.

Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article.

Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.

Other announcements

Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

requested to be updated

Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts

Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

Did you know...

...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
…that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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