Tube carried ‘highest number of passengers’ in December

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Figures published today by Transport for London (TfL) show that London Underground (LU) carried the ‘highest number of passengers in its history during December’.

Friday 9 December 2011 saw the highest number of daily passenger journeys ever recorded on the Tube, with 4.17 million journeys made.

That figure is almost seven per cent higher than the corresponding day in 2010.

The week ending Saturday 10 December was also a record-breaker, with a new weekly high of 24.9 million people using the Tube as the festive season got into full swing.

The news comes on the back of the latest Tube performance results published by TfL for the four week period from 16 October to 12 November.

They show that the Tube carried 94.6 million people during that period, up by more than four million on the same period last year.

LU operated 97.5 per cent of scheduled kilometres during the period, an improvement of one per cent on the previous period.

Reliability, as measured by the amount of delays caused to customers, has also continued to improve.

Since the Tube became part of TfL in 2003/04 delays ‘have been reduced by more than 40 per cent’.

Other improvements delivered during the four-week period include the expansion of the new air-conditioned ‘s-stock’ fleet running on the Metropolitan line to 21 trains and the rollout on stations of new electronic service update boards, providing customers with more detail about the status of their services.

These improvements reflect LU’s comprehensive reliability improvement programme which has three key elements:

  • Response and recovery to any incidents that occur
  • Predicting and preventing failures happening in the first place
  • Improving how LU upgrades existing assets and purchases new assets.

Mike Brown, LU’s Managing Director, said:

“Making further improvements to the daily reliability of the Tube is central to everything we do as passenger numbers continue to grow to record levels.

“A range of work is under way to further improve reliability, which we expect to pay dividends over the coming months.

“At the same time, we are rebuilding the network for the future, delivering 30 per cent more capacity through new trains, track and signalling and rebuilding some of our busiest stations.”

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