Category Archives: Transport

Contractors fined £1m after worker fall at East Croydon Station

Posted on April 24, 2018 by

Contractors working for Network Rail at East Croydon Station have been fined nearly £1million after a painter working for them fell through a ceiling into a passenger waiting room on the platforms. BAM Nuttall and McNealy Brown were fined £900,000 … Continue reading →

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More calls for TfL officials to face questions over tram crash

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

A public transport safety campaigner has called for a former Transport for London director to be called in for questioning over his handling of a safety audit on the tram network following the 2016 crash at Sandilands. The report was … Continue reading →

Posted in London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sandilands derailment, Steve O'Connell, TfL, Tramlink, Transport | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

What a relief! Boxpark traders get helping hand from council

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

Boxpark, the booze and food outlet in a collection of old shipping containers next to East Croydon Station, has been given yet more help from the council in an attempt to staunch its exodus of tenants. Boxpark’s dwindling number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Boxpark, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Westfield pulls plug on £15m payment for tram network

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on the vanishing millions which Westfield were supposed to provide for improving local infrastructure Westfield and Hammerson have pulled a promised £15million investment in Croydon town centre. The money was to have gone towards the cost … Continue reading →

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More questions after TfL is forced to publish tram fatigue report

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on an intriguing turn of events over a previously suppressed Transport for London report Within days of Inside Croydon highlighting the failure of Transport for London to share a safety audit report into driver fatigue with … Continue reading →

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Sutton LibDems ‘didn’t know’ about £4.5m electric car fund

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

BELLE MONT reports on how the LibDems in Sutton have been exposed once again for their incompetence on environmental issues The incinerating LibDems in Sutton have managed to miss out on a share of a multi-million-pound fund to encourage environmentally … Continue reading →

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TfL withheld key audit report from tram crash investigators

Posted on March 14, 2018 by

A transport safety campaigner has accused Transport for London of suppressing vital information related to the causes of the Sandilands tram crash by keeping secret an audit report into the events of November 9, 2016, even to the point of … Continue reading →

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