Maida Vale Tube: Unacceptable Delays

We are continuing to put pressure on Transport for London to pull their finger out over Maida Vale tube.

Late last month we reported how, yet again, Ken Livingstone was letting down the residents of Maida Vale by delaying tube works for the fourth consecutive time. We remain completely unconvinced by TfL and the inadequate responses that they send to our questions and queries. We will continue to push for answers and, more importantly, guarantees on dates (which, no doubt, TfL will continue to refuse to provide).

The Evening Standard last week published a damning indictment of Metronet and the shoddy working practices which have left us all worse off (see here). The real villains of the piece, however, are the idiots who forced these contracts on London in the first place - led by Gordon Brown.

After Jan, Alastair and myself tore a strip off TfL for abject incompetence, they have now promised to send us updates on the progress of their works in Maida Vale. We'll post their response tomorrow (and each time, in future, that we receive one).

Lee