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Commuters may face a challenging journey to work this morning, with delays on two London Underground lines.
By 7.03am, TfL was reporting minor delays on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines.
The picture is not looking great on the Tram either as it will be part closed between Sandilands and New Addington until April 18. Replacement buses are operating in the area until then.
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No service between Sandilands and New Addington until Friday, April 18.
Replacement buses operate.
Public safety concerns have been raised after a London Tube passenger posted pictures of a man who appears to be consuming crack cocaine in public.
According to Reddit , the event happened at a “busy hour” on the Victoria line as the traveler was on his way home from work and saw people relocating from a man seated across from him.
He saw a man in a black puffer jacket, jeans, and trainers who was allegedly “as high as a kite” and “behaving oddly” while attempting to “light a small metal pipe.”
“Thinking he was just drunk, I said ‘Dude, no- you can’t do that here’ before I recognised that he was attempting to light up some crack,” the passenger wrote on Reddit.
Read more here.
The Bakerloo line, which was reporting minor delays earlier, is now operating a good service.
The Central and Metropolitan lines are still facing delays.
Traffic was reported to be built up on the A406 on the approach to Telford Road due to a collision but this has now been cleared.
There is a normal flow of traffic in the area.
On Saturday, November 2, at around 3.30am, Sarah Cunningham, 31, stepped off the track at Chalk Farm station and walked south for around 75 meters into the tunnel before being struck by a northbound Northern line train.
Coroner Mary Hassell struggled to continue and fought back tears as she determined that Ms Cunningham’s death was accidental.
“She had just become so terribly, terribly intoxicated,” the coroner said. “Suddenly she jumped down on to the track, but she didn’t do so intending her death.
“Really, by that point she didn’t know what she was doing – she didn’t know where she was going.”
At the hearing on Wednesday, her family’s barrister, Clodagh Bradley KC, challenged a Transport for London manager about the failure to spot that Ms Cunningham had entered the tunnel and to halt the next train.
Read more on this story here.
Bakerloo line is facing minor delays while a signalling problem at Kilburn Park is dealt with.
Check your route before travelling on Thursday morning.
Marathon runners are able to take advantage of free travel across the London Underground and Overground services, as well as the DLR and London buses.
The free service will run until 6.30pm on Sunday, April 27.
London Marathon runners and officials simply show their runners number, medal or officials pass to travel for free.
You can find out more here.
Traffic is slow moving on the approach to Telford Road (Eastbound) at the junction of [A109] Station Road while lane two (of two) is blocked by a collision.
A good service has resumed on the Jubilee line.
The Central and Metropolitan line as well as the Tram are still facing problems.
With the opening of the Silvertown Tunnel this week, we were also introduced to the Silvertown bike.
Transport for London is spending almost £2m on a three-year contract to operate the new cycle shuttle service.
So how does it compare to other London-based bikes? The Standard’s Ross Lydall has written a review here.
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