Gospel Oak to Barking Line Question No: 2018/5316 Andrew Dismore My understanding is that the earliest driver training could start for this line is in mid-January. Due to further faults causing several pauses in testing, mileage accumulation has only just started again on new trains and it will be probably be the new year before the first units could be […]
Read moreTransport for London (TfL) have announced that they are going to re-examine their scheme to extend the 384 bus from High Barnet to Edgware, after a campaign by residents, led by East Barnet Labour Councillors Jo Cooper and Laurie Williams and Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore, which encouraged over 1,300 people to respond to the […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has praised the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan for investing over £1 million in ensuring there are Fire Cadet branches in every London borough, including Barnet and Camden. There are already over 200 Fire Cadets in 15 branches across London, with the new funding providing places for 300 more. Fire […]
Read morePlease see below a short briefing on the subject of tube noise within carriages: I agree that is not fair for anyone to have to put up with excessive noise, residents, passengers, or indeed train drivers: but TfL as yet have no engineering solution to the problem. Equally, I do not think it is right for TfL to play ‘divide […]
Read moreBarnet Council spent £1,086,999 last year renting back homes sold under the Right to Buy according to the response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which shows that 44.3% of homes in the area, bought through the Right to Buy scheme, are now privately rented out. According to the 2017 London Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), London needs 30,972 […]
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