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The two-way cycle lane on Westfield Avenue has been there all along, it's just spent a large chunk of its existence being closed for construction work. In theory it links Stratford High Street to Here East, but it's got some bobbins bits of infrastructure along the way, including some cobblestones. I think they've got rid of the bus shelter though.

martin | 19.11.17 - 7:17 a.m. | #

But where were they relocated from, I assume they didn't find a load of staff hiding in a cupboard, didn't they have offices in Croydon, is West Kensington still used?

Still anon | 19.11.17 - 7:18 a.m. | #

Mostly relocated from Canary Wharf. Stratford is less expensive.

100andthirty | 19.11.17 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Will the department that looks after bus stop timetables be situated at Stratford? It's just down the road from M . . .

RayL | 19.11.17 - 8:22 a.m. | #

They have moved from Windsor House and 55 Broadway - the former is to be filled by DE XU allegedly

Quite a few staff didn't want to move and left which may be one reason not to make too much fuss about the move at this stage

John | 19.11.17 - 8:42 a.m. | #

There's been a big move of TfL staff around the city recently. I used to work at 15 Westferry Circus, but we were all uprooted to move in to Palestra (Southwark). They also moved all the people from 20 Cranbourn Street (Leicester Square) to Palestra, and a few people have gone to Templar (Holborn) or Pier Walk (North Greenwich). They realised that by implementing Neighbourhood Working, whereby you don't get your own desk anymore, they could save a bit of money.

Regarding Endeavour Square, I was there on Friday. It's an odd place. The lifts seem to have been made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - you select your destination before getting in to the lift, and then it tells you which lift (sorry, elevator as the system says) to go to. And then that lift hopefully takes you there.

TheNewNo2 | 19.11.17 - 9:00 a.m. | #

@TheNewNo2 We also have this lift system - it’s a lot more efficient for large numbers of people because it groups them by floor.

Great to see the use of Johnston. I really hated these buildings as they were being constructed but they do look nice now the tenants have started to personalise them.

Matthew | 19.11.17 - 10:52 a.m. | #

The move is gradual and is happening over the course of the next few months whilst tfl goes through a re-structure, which is why there is 0 fanfare. Westferry workers were moved in first, as the lease was due to expire. There are a lot of shuffles coming, with the aim to put departments that need to work together near each other - that's not the case at present.

Goonhilly | 19.11.17 - 11:38 a.m. | #

That lift allocation system isn’t new. Parts of the Broadgate complex (over platforms 15/18 at Liverpool St) have used it for over 20 years

IslandDweller | 19.11.17 - 12:03 p.m. | #

Interesting that the new TfL towers is being occupied now. I did wonder if it was still happening given the reversal over the sale of 55 Broadway. Can't imagine that people who were used to a stroll from a main line terminal like Victoria or Waterloo to Victoria St are delighted at the extra drag to Stratford. If I was still working for TfL and had been moved to Stratford I'd be able to commute by bus!

PC | 19.11.17 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Those lift allocation systems are all very well but rely on everyone using it properly and each person wanting a lift pressing the button. Where you get a group of people going between the same floors and only one person presses the button, the lift system only accommodates 1 person so overcrowding sometimes occurs.

Jon B | 19.11.17 - 5:52 p.m. | #

Those cycling paths are the worst and lldc should be embarrassed.

Theo | 19.11.17 - 5:58 p.m. | #

On viewing DG's pictures there seems to be a considerable extent of floor to ceiling plain glazing. Surely TfL has not forgotten the saga (among other things ) of the move-in to Harry Hyams' "speculative build" Telstar House ? The normally quiet and placid LT administrative staff collectively threw a fit and refused to occupy until much of the lower portions of the originally Telstar glazing had been obscured by something less transparent. A majority genuinely feared the "don't look down" effect at glazed perimeter circulating areas, etc.
Will we now see a repeat of this ?

prptram | 19.11.17 - 6:33 p.m. | #

Oh great. My move to the back of beyond in North Greenwich is another result of Brexit then!

Ralph Ayres | 19.11.17 - 7:58 p.m. | #

@ prptram

Harry Hyams' Telstar House did not have floor to ceiling glazing: it had conventional windows that opened. You couldn't look straight down unless you deliberately walked right up to a window and leaned over.

It was demolished following a serious fire in 2003 and replaced by an entirely different building that merely has the same name.

Gerry | 19.11.17 - 11:15 p.m. | #

Another reason for no publicity is to avoid adverse publicity. Order for additional tube trains delayed; no Met to Watford Junction; cuts to bus services (mostly at the fringes) but TfL still has a shiny new head office. Nobody in the media will believe it might actually be cheaper due to aggregation and lower rents than at previous sites.

Notts_Railman | 20.11.17 - 5:53 a.m. | #

@Notts Railman... TfL bus cuts are very much in the centre as well. Overall, by end-Dec, around 150 buses a day (figure subject to confirmation) will be off the road, despite London's population growing and the trains full. Regular bus users like myself now wait longer, struggle more to board, stand instead of sitting more often.

Allegedly fewer passengers are travelling - more like more passengers not swiping-in on 'Boris Buses' - see Shoreditch any weekend for routes 8, 55 and 149. Also when 'Boris Bus' drivers change over, all three doorways are open and the readers inactive. Thanks, Boris... Not.

Joel | 20.11.17 - 3:22 p.m. | #

So, that new Bond Street entrance basically only connects the north side of Oxford Street with the ticket hall via a long corridor and then an endless system of walkways and escalators? This is one of those really unfriendly maze stations. The only good thing is if the elevator is there and you can jump on it (watching those two mysterious other floors going by).

Does tfl own the facade on the other side?

Max | 20.11.17 - 6:11 p.m. | #

@RayL....strange as it might seem, for over 15 years the individual responsible for stop M has been based at Broadway, Stratford.

scrumpy | 20.11.17 - 11:01 p.m. | #

@prptram Telstar House. Blimey. LT Payrolls had been there for years when it burst in to flames in 2003. When are you talking about?. It looks like a bog standard concrete '60s building

scrumpy | 20.11.17 - 11:12 p.m. | #

Windsor House has a car park. Staff are though told that there is no car parking on site but bikes may be left in the car park. No-one seems to have thought to relabel it as a bike park...

Andrew S | 21.11.17 - 9:34 p.m. | #











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