Many local residents are fuming at the news that the Tory Mayor Boris Johnson and TFL have decided that Stockwell station will be closed this weekend. A vital transport link not just from the local area, but also as an interchange will be shut down on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March. The entire Victoria line will be shut, but only Stockwell station on the Northern line will be closed down, inexplicably.
Your local Labour councillors have written to Val Shawcross, our local Labour Assembly Member who chairs the Transport Committee to express their frustration at the decision.
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In addition to the fact that Boris is Tory is there any explanation whatever for the total closure of STOCKWELL STATION - not just the Victoria Line closure. This blog ought perhaps to have identified the rationale for the total closure. So lets be having yer eh??
Maybe Kate will know she's a pal of Boris?
£270,000 remuneration for Lambeth Chief Executive Derrick Anderson
505 managers over £50,000 a year (a 25% increase in their numbers in one year).
These are where the council cuts should be!!!!!
Shame on Labour
Politicians trying to gain political capital out of this annoys me and reduces the respect generally in which politicians are held - it looks like school boy yah-boo name calling and blaming for no real purpose.
Given that the tube has to be closed for maintenance its inevtaible that some weekends/other days we are going to be inconvenienced - its nobody's 'fault' and would be exactly the same if there were a Labour Mayor of London or Labour Government.
TfL have made alternate arrangements and most of us will not be inconvenienced having to get a bus or walk to the next tube station.
So Alex please stick to the facts - by all means inform yooru constituents of the situation but dont try and concoct some faux outrage over a routine matter.
I expect more of my politicans so please stop.
Sophie,
The point about these closures is that they are authorised by the Mayor, who has direct control of TFL and the tube (unlike under Labour, actually when - like it or not, the PPP system had a degree of autonomy). The point about this weekend is that the Northern Line is closing at Stocwkell. No maintenance is happening on the Northern Line and no other station on the line is closing. The maintenance, which I support is on the Victoria line. When Stockwell has two escalators, and separate platforms for the Northern Line I think the station should stay open. The Mayor has to take political responsibility for such decisions.
Also, Boris Johnson promised to reduce the number of tube closures when this was last reviewed - but in fact the latest programme has increased them.
I'm pretty sure the station is not closed just because they fancy a day off - there is a reason. If you could possibly find out this reason rather than going on about the mayor it would be far more helpful and less blatant childish point scoring.
Oh dear when Alex and Co., were going gaga about getting Boris to expand his bike scheme to Stockwell Boris's "Tory" credo didn't enter anywhere into the STANDUPFORSTOCKWELL rhetoric and now it suddenly does. Also from the amount of building supplies (plus 2 portaloo's!!) stocked in Binfield Road this afternoon (Friday) in preparation for the weekend station works there is clearly a major construction op' in hand. So more info from Cllr Bigham and less political grandstanding.
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