A long-running campaign to improve facilities at Wembley Central tube station has paid off, as Transport for London announced details of new lifts and a stair lift installed at the station.
Brent’s Liberal Democrat Councillors have long campaigned for improvements to Wembley Central. Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson and Alperton councillor Daniel Brown, who has lobbied Network Rail and Transport for London on the issue, said:
Speaking to the South London Press about a row of homes in Catford which Transport for London owns but has left empty since 1987, Caroline Pidgeon said:
It is shameful these publicly owned properties have been empty for 25 years. Not only has this been a terrible waste of public money, but the properties are a complete eyesore. It is time TfL stopped making excuses.
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Caroline recently gave her full support to campaigners challenging Boris Johnson's proposals for an international airport in the Thames estuary.
On the day of the London Assembly's Annual General Meeting protesters from No Estuary Airport, Airport Watch and Campaign against Climate Change decided to protest outside City Hall to make the views known to the Mayor of London. The campaign against a Thames Estuary Airport is also strongly supported by the RSPB.
Some of the key arguments against the Thames Estuary Airport include:
Caroline joined Brian Paddick, Duwayne Brooks, Assembly Candidate Bridget Fox and local Lib Dem councillors and campaigners out and about in Islington on eve of poll.
The team had a great response from local people.
After lobbying from local MP Simon Hughes and Caroline Pidgeon, Chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee, TfL have now started work to improve the junction at Abbey Street, where cyclist Ellie Carey died in a collision with a lorry last year.
TfL has now told Ellie Carey’s father Allister in an email that work is about to start to provide advanced stop lines for cyclists at the junction. Trixi mirrors, which allow lorry drivers to see cyclists waiting at traffic lights, will be installed on the Tower Bridge Road by the end of May. This comes after Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker MP changed the rules to allow trixi mirrors to be installed by local authorities without permission from the Department of Transport.
TfL also said that they would be holding a full consultation on proposals for an improved scheme for cyclists and pedestrians at Abbey Street later this summer.