Submitted on Monday 11th January 2016
Published on Thursday 14th January 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 14th July 2016
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Urgently improve train services in South East London
The population demographic of South East London has changed markedly in the last few years. Transport provision, especially train and tube have not kept up and are now dangerously underprovisioned. Thameslink trains to / from Sevonoakes in particular are operating massively over capacity
Poor management is partly to blame as highlighted in the Office of Rail Regulation report into Thameslink's poor performance.
http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/18699/performance-investigation-report-southern-gtr-august-2015.pdf
The effect of lack of capacity is increased station dwell times which create further overcrowding
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Network-Rail-regulation-and-performance/network-rail-blames-rocketing-dwell-times-for-poor-performance-
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