Just about every day recently these have been flagged. When I click through I'm told that it's owing to a shortage of trains. Why? Is it trains or drivers? How can this continue day after day?
Susan Kelly ● 1005d11 Comments
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Peter Yale ● 1004d
Peter, are you sure of yourself? Which party refused to bail TfL out? None of this provides the answer to Susan's questions. It just so happens I was at White City this evening when there was a change of driver. Ironically I asked him what was meant by the shortage of trains; it is the trains themselves he told me - but then he probably would not say 'a shortage of drivers' would he? So believe what you want!
Ben Owen ● 1004d
No need for speculation or conjecture. A quick google of “why are there a shortage of trains in the central line” will yield around half a dozen results from reputable news outlets. They’ll quote named spokespeople from TfL explaining that component shortages, primarily motors, are affecting the planned refurbishment of the rolling stock.
Andy Hamm ● 1004d
Good info.
David Burke ● 1004d
Shockingly poor service to people at West/North/East Acton, White City and so forth. Fine for Ealing Broadway where people have other options.
Susan Kelly ● 1004d
TfL's budget has been woefully mismanaged while, at the same time, the number of employees on six-figure packages has TREBLED under Khan, who holds ultimate responsibility for their (lack of) performance.
N V Brooks ● 1004d
Where do the motors come?
Nicholas Beard ● 989d
Its to do with procurement being interfered with by political interventions.More than one fleet of trains are affected. The Piccadilly Line is in it's third month of daily train unavailability.Expediture has been diverted and ironically some of it is deliberate to reduce dependency on using the tube as the default means of transport.Such is the regime at TfL that no-one dare risk their careers by going public. But take a close look at several reputable transport websites and read between the lines.Its just a damn shame that lazy spoon fed journalists don't do more research and digging and reveal this enough to lance the boil and bring the poison to the fore.
Raymond Havelock ● 988d
Are "Private Eye" onto it?
Rosco White ● 988d
Elections are on the way. Vote for lies, corruption, crookedness.They are all your 2faced friends now, but beware.There needs to be a major upheaval of our “democratic system”
Peter Yale ● 987d
Don’t worry, you can ask Sadiq questions at the next people’s question time. Oh, hang on. He’s decided it has to be online because last time some people disagreed with him over policy. Even the police said there’s zero threat to him.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68165444.amp
Simon Hayes ● 987d