In an Evening Standard article on Boris Johnson's failure to meet his election pledge to extend Tube opening hours on Friday and Saturday nights, Caroline Pidgeon comments:
Extending Tube opening hours across the whole underground on Friday and Saturday nights was one of the most high-profile promises that Boris Johnson made to Londoners to secure his election. Yet so far he has not added a minute to the opening hours of even one line.
Caroline attended a special Ibero-American event at the Elephant and Castle on Sunday 11th April, speaking to thousands of Londoners.
Caroline stressed the need for people to register to vote and to use their vote.
“Only the Liberal Democrats have the big ideas for fundamental structural changes in the way our country works to make it fair” commented Caroline.
Caroline also highlighted Gloria Gormez and Fernanda Correia Sefzick who are standing in Princes Ward and Stockwell Ward in Lambeth.
In the Evening Standard, Ross Lydall reports on calls for the current works on Albert Bridge to continue 24 hours a day, in order to shorten its 18-month closure.
Caroline Pidgeon is quoted in the article, saying:
If London’s gridlock is to be seriously tackled we need to think of imaginative ways to ensure roadworks and repairs to bridges are carried out far more quickly. Work carried out around the clock could play a key role in ensuring far less grief and disruption for Londoners.
Caroline Pidgeon is backing a campaign by Vince Cable MP to reroute the 110 bus route through Whitton. Caroline has already received a huge petition of over 2000 signatures from local residents which she will present at Mayor's Question Time in May. In the meantime, she has also written to the Mayor urging him to consider extending the bus route.
Vince Cable has also this week met a delegation from Transport for London to persuade them of the case for the extended bus route.
The London SE1 website has an article on the calls by Simon Hughes MP and Caroline Pidgeon AM for the subway at Bricklayers Arms to be closed down, following recent muggings in the underpasses.
You can read the full story here.