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Obviously not TfL, but of note is the ongoing progress at London Bridge. Next month about half the new through platforms are due to reopen and Southeastern trains from Charing Cross will resume calling. At the same time about half the new undercroft concourse with direct access to St Thomas Street should open.

In 2018 the whole thing should be finished and trains will start running from London Bridge through the Thameslink core again, but at vastly increased frequencies and to a wider range of destinations.
October 2017: Dangleway finally ceases.
No, the Dangleway is quite a reasonable, and viable, tourist attraction. And we're going to need those, especially when the money men all leave. The Dangleway should just have never come near the transport budget or the tube map. But I doubt if that's going to be put right any time soon.
Will the completion of works at London Bridge mean that the current problems with Thameslink should be cleared up by 2018? Thameslink 2000, at long last?

Crossrail in two years too. How time flies. Does the Heathrow Express have any future?

And what is "Automatic Train Control". Is that driverless trains?
Surprised to see no mention of the "Night Tube" launch. Should we be worried?
No mention of the Piccadilly line have the plans for that been put back?.

Once Brexit takes full effect I expect London's population to go back into decline, so maybe we will not need these planned increases in passenger capacity.
The Commissioner's report contains some glaring errors including a claim that running Victoria line trains at 34tph mean they are 100 seconds apart. D'oh.

It will be Reduced length unit seven-car trains for stage 1 Crossrail. The eight cars come from the days when it was assumed carriages would be 20m long but they are 22.5 metres long so only seven car long trains will be possible.
No completion date for Cassiobridge station? (or is it the same as Vicarage Road?)
Slightly surprised you missed the completion of the North ticket hall at Victoria in Dec 2016.

I believe the report is wrong as it is the South Ticket Hall (expanding the existing one and adding new escalators) that is due in Feb 2018. TfL's own project page for Victoria confirms the two phased opening at Victoria.

dg writes: As you say, the report is probably wrong, hence my confusion/omission. List now updated, thanks.
@ Anon 0746 - the new Deputy Mayor for Transport has said she is not minded to do anything with the Dangleway. It's not going to be closed down or sold off, just left to continue as is. No doubt because of the Emirates sponsorship deal and the need to pay back the EIB loan used to build it. Why reduce income and create a need for reductions elsewhere given the Dangleway makes a surplus towards its construction costs. It's still an utter waste of time and money in transport terms but we're stuck with it. Given the budgetary issues the last thing anyone should do is make matters worse.
Sorry, you appear to have made a mistake throughout this post - Crossrail should read "Elizabeth line"

*runs away*
Are there any further details on the mobile ticketing app? I'm intrigued...
Is GOBLIN electrification not a worthy milestone? Maybe two dates will be needed, as they may get the wires up by mid-2017 and then find there are no available trains to run under them!

dg writes: No milestone date appears in the report. "Early 2018" is the current target.
@ Martin - a wild guess on my part but I guess the app will give access to a TfL account and the cards registered on it. I'd expect it will allow people to check their balance, add value or renew a season via their phone and then you collect the value at a nominated station. I'd expect things like incomplete journeys / refunds to be also possible via the app. It's just a new secure interface into a TfL Account. I'd not be surprised to see CC / ULEZ charging to follow as well as cycle hire when that's been made compatible with Oyster / TfL accounts.

When Oyster has been converted to "dumb" from "smart" then the transactions would only ever be held in your account as the card won't hold a balance or ticket in future. Therefore interacting on the move via phone will simply be sending instructions / receiving conformations on the phone with the account updated accordingly.

I think TfL will need to swap out the Oyster Card population with new cards during 2017 so having the app in place beforehand makes a great deal of sense. You will note that the Oyster weekly capping follows on a year later. This is after the card swap over process has run its course in 2017.

Note this is all my surmising about how the Future Ticketing Project will work.
So what does Oyster going dumb mean for people who use weekly travelcards that don't start on a Monday?
@ John - nothing really. If you wish to buy a Travelcard then you'll do so with whatever start date and end date. It will be a transaction on your card account and when the usage data is processed by the Central System it will look to see if all the trips are in the zones you bought. If they are then fine. If you've done an extension then that will be charged against the PAYG balance.

The weekly capping is really just a safety net for those using PAYG who may or may not, depending on their circumstances, make enough travel in the M-Su period. I can't see TfL moving purely to PAYG and capping unless they can drag the train companies across. Given the minimal interest from the TOCs in investing in Oyster compatible ticket office kit or in their own online systems they would object to TfL "stealing" all their customers who use Travelcards. I assume a lot of work is being / has been done on this issue










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