Coronavirus Implications For London's Transport

Confirmation that there will be an all-night service on New Year's Eve although if the pubs and bars are closing at 10pm I can't see why we're bothering

I won't be volunteering for that or for Boxing Day working.

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When I started working for the Tube one of the things we were told during training was that around a third of passengers were commuters and the majority used the Tube on a less regular basis.  While the current focus has been mostly on the fall in commuter numbers the effect of the loss of tourism has been overlooked.

Using figures from VisitBritain TfL have calculated that tourist spending in London will be down £10.9bn this year, £7.4bn from overseas and £3.5bn from domestic tourism. By comparison the estimated losses from commuter spending are just £1.9bn, £1.4bn from commuters living in London and £0.5bn from outside.

We might grumble about tourists but they are big part of London's economy.

^ How can an exact date be given when the night time economy is shut down? Is there a date for theatres reopening. In my area they are planning a pantomime but cases are beginning to rise for the first time despite no change with all the staycationers coming to the coast. Talk of tier 3 by Christmas. Places of Worship can still stay open but given the profile of worshippers I can see them closing.

A bulletin dated 30 October 2020 has gone up at West Ruislip.
Seems this wasn't supposed to be displayed until Monday but an over-enthusiastic manager put it out two days early.

Has a couple of typos but that doesn't mean much as a lot of the notices don't appear to be proof read!

Presume with no threats, they must be close to agreement, at least for an interim deal.

£905m + £95m = £1bn. Where's the remaining 800m coming from?

Ianvisits has some detail, it appears to be a further grant unlocked by unrealistic usage (so half of it can be relied on?) and control on project planning.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/11/01/tfl-secure-funding-deal-to-keep-londons-buses-and-trains-running/

There was a study done in 2007 looking into the affects Tube tunnels had on ambient ground temperatures.

It found that 89% of the heat generated came from the trains themselves, 4% from infrastructure and the remaining 7% from passengers. Longevity has been a key factor in why the Tube has warmed up so much over the decades.

Even though passengers may have steeply dropped, the network was still running a fairly intense service for part of the day even at the height of the 1st lockdown so heat emissions would still be quite normal.

Reports from the Evening Standard based on the TfL Board Meeting that (unsurprisingly) no overnight service on New Year's Eve is confirmed, and (backed by SE1 here) that the Waterloo & City line is targeted with reopening in April next year, but could be re-opened sooner if there is demand. Central line service is being prioritised over the W&C.

The Standard claimed this was because they "use the same trains", which isn't quite right but points for trying I suppose...

An official report said "The initial appraisal indicated that collectively these changes are on the cusp of acceptability in terms of Disbenefit to Cost Saving Ratio (1.8:1). However, this may be because the tools used are better suited to marginal changes to the network, rather than the widescale changes considered here. TfL has indicated that once the full impact and network effects are considered, this package would perform poorly against decision-making criteria."

The loop is still in use by trains, running empty from Hatton Cross to allow the timetable to continue and give the same layover time at Terminal 4 station.

Finally confirmation that services will not be operating overnight on New Years Eve

31 December 2002>1 January 2003

Was it really that recent? I thought it would have been longer. I'm trying to remember why there was no all night service that year, can anyone remind me please?