Category Archives: Sutton Link
TfL forced to bin costly £560m tram extension into Sutton
Transport for London has binned the proposed Sutton tram extension due to its “weak business case”. According to a senior official at City Hall this week, it’s unlikely that the Sutton link will be revisited any time soon. “It’s hard … Continue reading
TfL needs to find £50m to replace Croydon’s oldest trams
Transport for London needs to replace two-thirds of its fleet of trams – but still has to secure the funding to pay for them. The original 24 Bombardier-built trams have been trundling from Beckenham Junction and New Addington through Croydon … Continue reading
London is ’23 days from disaster’ over transport funding
With one-fifth of buses and 10% of Tubes under threat of cuts, ‘TfL could become a byword for managed decline’ warns Mayor Khan as Tory government plays brinkmanship with the capital’s economy London’s transport system is “23 days away from … Continue reading
TfL confirms changes to 13 routes across Croydon and Sutton
Transport for London is going ahead with three new bus routes to serve Croydon and Sutton, with significant changes lined up for 13 existing south London routes. With no prospect of the long-requested tram extension to the Royal Marsden Hospital … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
