After a massive response to our petition to extend the number 63 bus route to Honor Oak, we have formally submitted the petition to City Hall for Boris Johnson to now respond to. Nearly 600 local residents have backed our campaign to extend the bus route, which currently stops at Forest Hill Road and would […]

With just a couple of months to go until the re-opening of the extended East London Line, I thought it would be worth sharing some links to websites giving a sneak preview of the new service. The Guardian’s Dave Hill has an interesting blog on the new line here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2010/mar/16/east-london-line-extension-promises-of-prosperity And the excellent London Reconnections […]

The popular 343 bus, which runs from London Bridge to New Cross, via Peckham Rye, is set to become more reliable and more frequent. Transport for London have now completed a consultation on the route and after continued pressure on them from the local Lib Dem Focus team, TfL have agreed to increase the morning […]

Here’s an update from today’s Mayor’s Question Time. Boris Johnson publically agreed to meet a delegation from the SLL campaign at City Hall, and then join the delagation in a meeting with the Department for Transport, should Lord Adonis agree to meet them. Quote: “I will receive a delegation, and lead it. We will muster […]

I have had the above tube map mocked up, showing the South London Line as it would look if it were included on the Tube map. There is currently a black hole in South London transport. Anyone living in Camberwell and Peckham will have had a similar experience at some point: you invite a friend […]

Had the following letter about the Save the South London Line campaign published in this week’s Southwark News: (you can see the Equal Life Chances For All document here: http://tiny.cc/Hqux0) Boris Johnson has launched his ‘Equal Life Chances for All’ policy statement, which redefines City Hall’s definition of equality. Its aim is to increase equality […]

  We have been out collecting signatures for the petition to save the South London Line. This is a line that runs from London Victoria to London Bridge. TfL and the DfT are planning to scrap this line in 2012, and replace it with the Overground Line (linking Clapham to New Cross, via Queens Road, […]