EARL’S COURT SOCIETY - TRANSPORT SUB-GROUP
Mark Balaam (Chairman), Nick Woollven (Deputy Chairman), George
Jasieniecki, Ann Kutek
REPORT – NOVEMBER 2022
1.
ECS – TSG Activities
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The Sub-Group is increasingly worried about
the growth in infractions of the Highway Code by cyclists generally, notably
riders of delivery bikes and e-cycles on and off pavements endangering public
transport users and others in Earl’s Court, and that this encourages
inappropriate use of Santander bikes by tourists from abroad. CCTV monitoring and enforcement is urged to
tackle items such as riding the wrong way up Earl’s Court Road and other
one-way streets, the lack of lights on cycles and insufficient safety
clothing.
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· The
Sub-Group has submitted on behalf of the Society extensive comments to TfL on the
recent consultation on bus routes in Central London.
· Following
its enquiry to the London Transport Museum as to their possible fate, the
Sub-Group is delighted to report the restitution of the working heritage train destination
indicators on the District Line platforms at Earl’s Court station (see below).
· The
Sub-Group has secured a number of the wall-mounted posters of past activities
at the Earls Court and Olympia Exhibition Centres from The Bolton pub upon its recent
closure. The Sub-Group plans to send
these to Olympia London, with the intention that these would be held by Olympia
London in the Earls Court Exhibition archive, for their retention and display for
the purposes of research and posterity.
· The strikes that affected London Underground services are
going ahead as planned.
· This
year is the sixtieth anniversary of the introduction of the Earl’s Court
One-Way System.
2. West
London Line Group activities
The
strikes called by the rail unions that have been affecting London Overground and
Southern services are continuing as planned, save those for Thursday 15th and
Saturday 17th September which were called off as a mark of respect following
the death of HM Queen Elizabeth
