Bakerloo line branded the worst as delays on Tube keep soaring

Bakerloo line: Worst for delays
12 April 2012

Serious Tube delays of 15 minutes or longer have soared in frequency, figures revealed today.

Passengers on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Jubilee and Victoria lines all suffered more major disruption in March compared with the same month last year. The Bakerloo line saw serious delays rise from four to 14, the Jubilee from 10 to 22, the Central from 11 to 21, the District from 21 to 24 and the Victoria from five to eight.

The Transport for London figures, the latest available, show that overall there were 123 such delays in March, up from 103 for the same month last year. Val Shawcross, Labour's transport chief at the London Assembly and deputy leader of the transport committee, said: "These latest figures from TfL which show Tube delays up 19 per cent in the last year are a damning indictment of a Mayor who is more interested in photo opportunities than doing his day job. Over the last year Boris Johnson has repeatedly refused to get a grip on the Tube, accusing anyone who complains about Tube delays of misusing statistics. These new figures come from TfL, the organisation he runs."

However, a TfL spokesman claimed Tube performance had improved significantly after "some operating issues over the winter", with 97.5 per cent of services running to schedule.

"These statistics from earlier in the year selectively take a small number of lines where delays rose, which can be for a whole host of reasons. On the Bakerloo line, for example, it was due to flooding caused by the Trafalgar Square fountains," he said.

The Jubilee line has suffered repeated delays due to failures of the new signalling system. The TfL spokesman said delays on the Jubilee line had been cut by a third in recent months.

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