Decade of delays as District Line goes down the tube

Residents are reeling from the shock admission by TFL that improvement work on the District Line will not be completed until 2017.

Red-faced TfL officials came clean last week and admitted that the works to upgrade the District Line will take a minimum of 3,000 days. According to the most recent census, Hammersmith and Fulham has the highest per population tube usage rate in London, with the District Line the most popular service. At peak times, the Wimbledon branch of the District Line operates at 92 per cent of total capacity. H&F Council is campaigning for longer trains to be introduced – many of the trains operated have scope for an extra carriage. The council would also like to see Piccadilly Line trains stop at Ravenscourt Park to alleviate some of the pressure on the District Line.

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