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3 unusual facts about Transport For London


Lacock Gullam

The consultancy has developed street furniture programmes for a number of cities and are the designers of the latest iteration of Transport for London's latest bus shelter.

Traffic Radio

(London took the South & East version before subsequently switching to its own dedicated version operated with the assistance of Transport for London)

Transport for London

Livingstone and Wetzel remained in office until the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor in 2008.


Destination sign

Automatic-setting rollsigns are common on many light rail and subway/metro systems in North America, and in the U.K. such capability is standard on the so-called "bendy buses" (articulated buses) of Transport for London (TfL) and in Citaro Gs, when equipped with blinds.

Edinburgh Trams

With a key project dependency out of synchronisation, TIE held discussions with Transport for London about delivering the trams to Croydon to conduct operational tests on the Tramlink network.

Fleet management software

Information can be imported from external sources such as gas pump processors, the DVLA, CAP, HM Revenue and Customs, VOSA, Transport for London and the Motor Insurance Database and from internal sources such as Human Resources and Finance.

Locksbottom

Locksbottom is served by many Transport for London Bus services connecting it with other areas including Orpington, Bromley, Chislehurst, Hayes, Beckenham, Catford, Lewisham and Crystal Palace.

One hour bus ticket

One hour bus ticket is the name given to a transport campaign in London, U.K. Backed by the opposition Liberal Democrat party on the London Assembly, it seeks to persuade Transport for London to introduce a time-limited bus ticket.

Penalty fare

The London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Act 1992 and the Greater London Authority Act 1999 allows Transport for London to charge penalty fares under similar but not identical rules.

Stephen Glaister

Stephen Glaister CBE (born 21 June 1946) is Professor of Transport and Infrastructure at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London where he is also director of the Railway Technology Strategy Centre, a former board member of Transport for London and director of the RAC Foundation.

TV Network Protocol

The protocol was developed by Philips Projects (now Tyco Integrated Systems) on behalf of the Traffic Control Systems Unit (TCSU), now a part of Transport For London.

Urban Eye

The charity has a strong record of forming partnerships with stakeholders (Transport for London, Metronet, Highways Agency, Land Securities and Kensington Housing Trust), public and private organisations (BBC, BT Group), and local authorities (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council, Suffolk County Council, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) to tackle regeneration schemes in run-down sites in the city.

Woolwich Arsenal station

Woolwich Arsenal was expanded in 2009, when Transport for London completed the construction of an extension of the London City Airport branch of the Docklands Light Railway from King George V to Woolwich Arsenal, which is the branch's new terminus.


see also

Bob Kiley

Kiley's Transport for London biography notes that Kiley is also "Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board Member of the Salzburg Seminar, the American Repertory Theater, MONY Group Inc, the Princeton Review Inc and Edison Schools, Inc. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Center for State and Local Government."

Legible London

It was initiated and designed for pedestrians by Applied Information Group (now Applied) collaborating with Lacock Gullam and funded by London Boroughs, Business Improvement Districts, landowners and Transport for London.

Overground

London Overground - the official brand name of a London suburban railway run by Transport for London since 2007