We’re also investing to increase capacity at key interchanges like Victoria, Tottenham Court Road and Paddington.ĭuring the Games we saw how effective travel demand management could be – working with businesses to retime the working day, and giving passengers information about where the peak demand was likely to be so they could find alternative routes.īut with the Games over, the trick now is to see how we can use that experience to help customers use our network differently. Some of the most important parts of the network are in urgent need of upgrading – we are only able to operate 24tph on the Piccadilly line for example, the vital line that serves Heathrow, King’s Cross and London’s West End. That means the main way to increase capacity is to increase the frequency of trains – we recently introduced a 33 train per hour timetable on the upgraded Victoria line – and new investment across the network is essential if we are to keep pace with demand. LU has old, small tunnels, so we can’t make the train much bigger. "For station projects, we typically design for expected growth over the next 50 years." But we’ve got to see continued investment alongside our will to think differently, so that we hit the new heights of performance necessary to keep London working. We’ve already made fantastic inroads into improving reliability, at the same time as carrying record numbers of passengers, upgrading the network and keeping some of the oldest trains and signalling in Europe going until they too can be replaced. The system is operating intensively at capacity, so a single interruption can quickly create a domino effect of delays.įor example, it’s not uncommon for customers to be taken ill on a train – that in turn can lead to a train being held in platform for a few minutes, while help is summoned, during which time the time between trains has stretched from a minute and a half to three or four minutes, allowing platforms to overcrowd and causing queuing at the busiest stations. TfL figures show that 75% of commuting trips are made by Tube in the morning. "LU has old, small tunnels, so we can’t make the train much bigger."ĭavid Waboso: Although morning peaks are the network’s busiest period, increasingly evenings and weekends are experiencing challenging levels of demand, driven by the growth of London.
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