![]() ‘The situation is improving and we have seen fewer closures this year than last year. We do everything we can to avoid having to close a station and always work to minimise the length of time a station is closed for. Nick Dent, TfL’s director of customer operations, said: ‘I’d like to apologise to customers who have experienced short notice closures. Extreme weather, UK Power Network issues and problems with lifts and escalators were also listed as some of the reasons. Stations have been closed because of a number of factors, such as staff shortages, trespassers and fire alarms being set off maliciously, TfL said. Let’s hope Chancery Lane doesn’t beat its record last year, which was an unbelievable 137 closures in one year – that’s over a third of the days in the year. In third place was Chancery Lane, which was shut a whopping 48 times from January to August. Lancaster Gate was at the top of the list with 66 closures, while Holland Park came in second, closing 61 times this year so far. Īccording to figures published by TfL in response to the FOI, there were 1,138 station closures between January and August this year, a decrease from 1,378 during the same period last year. ![]() Tube stations have also been closed a lot this year, so much so that one person asked TfL to tot up the total number of station closures in a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. From never-ending train strikes to flooding and storms, it seems that our public transport network can’t catch a break. London’s transport system has been struggling this year.
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