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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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