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Category Archives: Sutton Link
Let’s build new tram lines with routes where people want to go
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The ‘Fantasy Tram Network’ map, showing the various undeveloped extensions and new destinations which have been spurned over the past 20 years, underlines the desperate need for better public transport in south London, says STEPHEN SPARK Thanks for … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
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What might have been: how Croydon Trams should have grown
Have you ever wondered what the Croydon Tram network might look like if the Crystal Palace extension, or the much-talked-about Sutton line, had ever been built? Loyal reader Anthony Norris-Watson certainly, and he put together something which Ken Livingstone or … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Commuting, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Tramlink, Crystal Palace, London, Mayor, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London
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Tories play politics over covid emergency funding for TfL
The emergency cash bail-out for London’s transport system sees the capital’s Labour Mayor hand much control to the Tories running the government, reports WALTER CRONXITE The Tories have put political point-scoring ahead of public health, after the government last night … Continue reading
Posted in London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon and Sutton (London Assembly constituency), Labour, London, Mayor, Mayor of London, Neil Garratt, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London
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Author tracks 20 years of history with Croydon Tramlink
KEN TOWL reviews an extensive and exhaustive new book about the local light rail network, which opened for service in May 2000 As former ITN newsreader and “The Voice of Tramlink”, Nicholas Owen notes in his foreword that the transport … Continue reading
Posted in Ken Towl, Sandilands derailment, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon Tramlink, Gareth David, Ken Towl
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TfL backs Sutton Tram Link – but lacks £420m to pay for it
Transport for London has plumped for a tram extension that links Sutton town centre with the Northern Line Tube at Colliers Wood. But they just don’t have the £420million needed to pay for it just yet. The outcome of a … Continue reading
Posted in Merton, Sutton Council, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Mayor of London, Merton, Merton Council, Sutton, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London
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