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TRANSPORT: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON

An unrivalled
transport
network
Transport for London (TfL) is dedicated
to supporting and improving London’s
transport network.

W

hen finding your-

surface services. Headed up by the

self in the capital,

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, the

it's

than

local government body accommodates 24

likely you'll make

million journeys on a daily basis, a good

use of either bus,

many of those made across its 250 miles

more

train or underground services in order to

of underground track.

get around, and be afforded some sense of

Integral to the continuation of its host of

certainty that you'll arrive without impedi-

services is the sustained development of the

ment. As the single organisation dedicated

transport infrastructure; as such, TfL has

to supporting and improving London's

made serious investments in renovating the

transport network, Transport for London

underground stations which are most fre-

(TfL) is charged with maintaining the ease

quented, and has committed to overhauling

of mobility which we so take for granted in

the network in the coming years. First to be

the busy city.

remodelled was Bond Street. Home to one

Emerging in the millennium, TfL,

of London's busiest high streets, the station

through a number of acquisitions, has

is marked by a prestigious heritage and

since become central to London's trans-

therefore poses real difficulties when it

port system, primarily managing the

comes to attending to, and extending its

iconic London's buses and the tube net-

Victorian infrastructure. Engineers have

work, as well as various overground and

just completed the excavation of the final

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