RP - C&P'd from Nextdoor - For anyone affected by the continual District Line signal failures.......
Fund modern signalling on the District line's Wimbledon branch. We're asking the UK Government, the Mayor of London and Transport for London to fund and deliver full modern signalling between East Putney and Wimbledon — and publish a funded plan with a timetable. Not another patch: a permanent fix.Thousands of passengers rely on the Wimbledon branch every day. It still runs on signalling dating back to the 1980s. When that signalling fails, delays spread along the whole District line.The central District line is being modernised. Our branch was not. In 2020, TfL's Programmes and Investment Committee decided not to re-signal this branch — along with the Richmond and Ealing Broadway branches — a decision restated in July 2021 and June 2024.TfL confirms the new signalling stops short of us — "the 4LM project is replacing the signalling system as far as East Putney station" — and that there are "no plans currently for future modernisation".The…Continue reading and sign this petition on Change.org: [
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