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Annual Report 2014/15 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 2014/15 Contents About Transport for London 4 Mayor’s foreword 58 Value: delivering more with less We are the integrated transport authority 60 – Clicks, bricks and pop-ups for London. Our purpose is to keep London 6 Message from the Commissioner 62 – The future’s red for cycle hire working and growing and to make life in the 64 – Hens, hippos and nightclubs Capital better. We reinvest all of our income to 10 Year at a glance 66 – Continuing efficient run and improve London’s transport services. operational activities 12 Delivering for London Our operational responsibilities include 68 Planning for the future London Underground, London Buses, 14 Operational performance 70 – Here comes the Night Tube Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, 72 – A route to the future TfL Rail, London Trams, London River Services, 16 Keeping London working and growing 74 – Green light for future streets projects London Dial-a-Ride, Victoria Coach Station, Santander Cycles and the Emirates Air Line. 18 Customers: the heart of our business 76 Progress against the Mayor’s 20 – Touch and go Transport Strategy On the roads, we regulate taxis and the 22 – The new face of customer service private hire trade, run the Congestion Charging 24 – Online, and right on the button 94 Statement of Accounts scheme, manage the city’s 580km red route 26 – Access all areas network, operate all of the Capital’s 6,200 28 – This time it’s personal: using big data 246 Annual Governance Statement traffic signals and work to ensure a safe to make every journey matter environment for all road users. 255 Chief Officers 30 Delivery: our plans and our promises We are delivering one of the world’s largest 32 – Faster and more frequent trains on the 256 Members of TfL programmes of transport capital investment, Northern line which is building Crossrail, modernising Tube 34 – Crossrail: the wait’s nearly over 259 Directors of Crossrail Ltd services and stations, improving the road 36 – The long game: maintenance that lasts network and making the roads safer, especially 38 – Four becomes five 260 Membership of TfL committees for more vulnerable road users, such as 40 – While you were sleeping and panels pedestrians and cyclists. 42 – Clever stuff 44 – Safer streets for all 262 TfL Members’ meeting We are a pioneer in integrated ticketing and 46 – The day the Tour hit town attendance 2014/15 providing information to help people move around London. Oyster is the world’s most 48 People: dedicated to customer service 264 Remuneration popular smartcard, and contactless payment is 50 – Great eggspectations making travel ever more convenient. Real-time 52 – The bus still standing… travel information is provided by us directly 54 – Celebrating women in transport and through third parties who use the data TfL 56 – All about the bus makes openly and freely available to power apps and other services. Improving and expanding transport in London is central to driving economic growth, jobs and housing across the country. 2 Transport for London Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 2014/15 3 Mayor’s foreword London’s continued success depends on an efficient and reliable transport network that quickly adapts to the changing needs of the greatest metropolis on the planet. Transport for London’s achievements in enabling the city’s development have once again been immense. This year London achieved an historic improved road layouts. And, somehow, much of it and we must press ahead without milestone when our population passed TfL engineers even managed to jack up the the delay that surrounded the start of 8.6 million, meaning we have more souls Hammersmith flyover to breathe decades Crossrail 1. We must also make our network living here than ever before. The Malthusian more life into it. Our new Santander Cycles more accessible for all Londoners to use doom-mongers were wrong. Far from choking partnership, the largest public sector and the new £76m fund I announced last the city, this growth in economically active sponsorship deal in the world, will deliver year will enable another 12 stations to and productive talent is the driving force excellent value to Londoners. become step-free. behind the economic and social wellbeing of the entire nation. These are enormous achievements. But We need to build on the success of London TfL has not been content just to do the Overground to further improve commuter rail Businesses are thriving, jobs and homes are same old job on a bigger scale. It is services into central London providing south being created and we live in an increasingly adapting and innovating to support a London with a metro-style service it deserves. safe environment. None of this would be very different London. And we must underpin our ambitious housing happening without high quality and constantly programme with the transport that links these improving transport. I am especially proud of what we have been new homes to jobs. Extending the Bakerloo line able to do this year for London’s army of into south London and the London Overground Across the TfL network, capacity has been part-time and flexible workers. The old fares to Barking Riverside are two crucial examples. increased and reliability improved. system worked against them. On a day- service, to Crossrail and the Tube upgrades, by-day basis they paid more for travel than Our city has proved that with just a small and the cycle superhighways. He led the work London Underground is now more than their full-time counterparts. I was able to measure of devolution great things can be that moved millions of people around the city 50 per cent more reliable compared with restructure fares to give these customers a achieved. Just think what more could be done during the Olympic and Paralympic Games – 2010/11 owing to a relentless focus on fairer deal and help develop today’s flexible if London and the UK’s other great cities were and earned TfL the admiration of passengers getting the detailed day-to-day operations labour market. given even more say in their own futures. from around the world. It is quite right that right while simultaneously modernising the That’s why I will continue to fight for a better his skills should now be deployed on the network. Train frequencies and capacity on There is, of course, still so much to do. deal for London so we can continue to deliver. national stage. the upgraded Victoria, Jubilee and Northern Our population is set to reach 10 million lines now rival those of the best metros by 2030 and it will grow larger still. This I’d like to pay tribute to our departing anywhere in the world. represents one of the nation’s greatest Commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy CBE, following economic opportunities. We must continue the announcement that he is to leave TfL in Our roads are undergoing radical and rapid to invest in transport and other infrastructure July to take on the role of Chair of Network change. Delivery of my vision for cycling is to make the most of that opportunity. We Rail. Peter has given 15 years of superb service in full swing. Communities across London need to support the necessary expansion to London. He has helped oversee the biggest are being transformed through investment in of our bus services. The case for Crossrail 2 programme of investment in transport since Boris Johnson better high streets and made safer through is overwhelming; London itself can pay for Victorian times – from revitalising the bus Mayor of London 4 Mayor’s foreword Transport for London Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 2014/15 5 Message from the Commissioner Transport is not an end in itself. It is an enabler of economic development, housing, jobs and social cohesion. Everything we do is designed to meet a core promise to our customers and users – that every one of the 30 million journeys made on our network each day matters to us. The way in which we deliver against our We manage a range of models to deliver this and Metropolitan lines, and increasingly out promise is constantly changing as the city in the most effective way. Some services we on the District line. The entire fleet of District develops. And, like most parts of the public run directly, like London Underground, while line trains will be replaced by the end of sector, my organisation must do more, do it others are out-sourced, like our bus service, 2016. This huge programme of modernisation better and do it all for less money. London Overground and our London Highways includes major stations, trains, track and Alliance with the boroughs. Our job is to make control systems being updated or replaced to We are rightly judged by the standards of the sure that the quality and value for money of all provide more capacity for this growing city. We best in the private sector. Why should a not- of them are equally high, that there is a joined- completed and successfully opened the first for-profit agency like mine be any less agile, up customer experience and that everything new part of Tottenham Court Road station any less innovative, any less aware of its cost we do, either directly or through partners, as planned in January. The station now has a base and any less sensitive to the needs of its delivers what this city needs. new spacious ticket hall, plus an entrance on customers than a commercial business? Oxford Street and six new escalators. Our public transport services carried record Indeed, it is because many of our customers numbers of customers in 2014/15.
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