Coming up next week at the London Assembly
PUBLICATIONS
Wednesday 23 July
Blue light status of emergency response vehicles
Transport Committee
The Transport Committee will write to Transport for London and the British Transport Police about their decision to take away the blue light status of emergency response unit vehicles, which was one of the key recommendations of the London Assembly 7/7 Review Committee’s 2006 report on the response to the tube and bus bombings.
MEDIA CONTACT: Josh Hunt on 07763 252 310/ [email protected]
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Tuesday 22 July
Capital funding and delivery
Budget and Performance Committee – The Chamber, City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, 10am
Transport for London (TfL) has proposed an extension of the Bakerloo line from Elephant and Castle, to Lewisham, including the potential for a further extension beyond Lewisham to Hayes and Beckenham Junction.
The project is estimated to cost between £5.2 billion to £8.7 billion (at 2021 prices), with an additional £800 million to £1.9 billion required to extend the line further to Hayes.
The London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee will hear from experts and TfL on the potential funding options for the Bakerloo line extension, and other new and future capital projects.
Guests are:
- Professor Tony Travers, Professor in Practice and Associate Dean, the London School of Economics
- John Kavanagh, Programme Director, Infrastructure, Business LDN
- Chris Whitehouse, Technical Director, WSP
- Maurice Lange, Analyst, Centre for Cities
- Manish Gupta, Corporate Finance Director, TfL
- Lucinda Turner, Director of Spatial Planning, TfL
MEDIA CONTACT: Tony Smyth on 07763 251 727 / [email protected]
Wednesday 23 July
Paying for and building transport projects at low cost
Budget and Performance Committee – The Chamber, City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, 10am
According to reports, Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. The 35-mile (56 kilometre) program of expansion between 1995 and 1999 cost around $2.8 billion (in 2024 prices). London’s Jubilee Line Extension, built at the same time as Madrid’s expansion, cost nearly ten times more per mile than Madrid’s program.
The London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee will hear from experts on why the cost for building transport infrastructure in the UK is much higher than neighbouring countries.
Guests are:
- Ben Hopkinson, Head of Housing & Infrastructure, Centre for Policy Studies
- Dr Alexander Budzier, Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Global Projects
- Gareth Dennis, Railway Engineer and writer, Railnatter
MEDIA CONTACT: Tony Smyth on 07763 251 727 / [email protected]
Notes to editors
For more details, please contact Tony Smyth in the Assembly Media Office on 07763 251 727. For out of hours media enquiries please call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the Assembly duty press officer.