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	London - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In general "London" also used to refer to the area falling within the London Postal District; the area covered by the telephone area code 020; the area enclosed by an all-zone Transport for London Travelcard; the area within the M25 orbital motorway, and even the larger London commuter belt.
		The coordinates of the centre of London (traditionally considered to be Charing Cross, near Trafalgar Square) are approximately {{Coor dm NW513008}} The Romans marked the centre of Londinium with the London Stone in the City.
		London was one of the venues for the World Cup in 1966, and the European Football Championship in 1996, and hosted the final of both tournaments.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /london.htm (3544 words)

	Bob Kiley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 2004 he is the current Commissioner of Transport for London, the public organisation empowered with running and maintaining London's public transport network.
		Kiley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and educated at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
		Kiley was sacked as chairman of London Regional Transport in July 2001 and repeated clashes with his boss, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Kiley (902 words)

	London's transport history from 1933 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The transport of London has, since 1933, been under a single control with various names.
		In all some 92 transport and ancillary undertakings, with a total capital of c£120 million, came under the authority of the LPTB.
		2000: Transport for London (TfL) set up when the Mayor of London and the London Assembly were established.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Transport (459 words)

	London's Transport Museum +44 (0)20 7565 7299 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Made for London Regional Transport (LRT), also known as London Transport, the seal press was used to emboss LRT's seal onto paper documents.
		The seal matrix dates from 1985 and remained in use until July 2003 when LRT was formally dissolved and Transport for London took over the company's functions.
		The press may date back as far as the early 1900s and is made of cast iron with a wooden handle and is decorated with a floral pattern in gold leaf.
	www.ltmuseum.co.uk /collections/acquisitions.html (146 words)

	Greater London Authority - Press Release
		At lunchtime today London Regional Transport responded to the threat of legal action to enforce London's interests in relation to the proposed PPP for the London Underground.
		`London Regional Transport have contacted us today to say that they will not respond to the requests put to them by our lawyers in relation to the PPP for the London Underground until 10am on Wednesday morning.
		Defer the 8 March deadline it has unilaterally established for the conclusion of the consultation process with Transport for London until such time as it is in a position to consult on final and complete contract terms.
	www.london.gov.uk /view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=1270 (338 words)

	Transport
		The subject of transport is close to the heart of all those living and working in London and was the first of the Mayor's strategies to be written or implemented.
		Transport was highlighted as one of the priority issues for the London Health Strategy and the London Health Commission.
		Transport providers (London Underground, bus and rail companies) will have their own passenger statistics which may be available on request.
	www.lho.org.uk /HIL/Determinants_Of_Health/Transport.htm (1667 words)

	Transport for London - TfL and the LUL PPP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Transport for London - TfL and the LUL PPP
		London Regional Transport (LRT), parent organisation of London Underground, has recently confirmed to Transport for London (TfL) that a guarantee given to the Tube Lines consortium has been used as an £11.4m "bail out" by Amey plc.
		London Transport recently informed Transport for London, however, that it is considering privatising one Infraco - or one third of the Tube's infrastructure, without it being clear if the other two thirds will ever also be privatised, or whether they will remain in the public sector - the so-called "Mixed Solution".
	www.dlr.co.uk /tfl/tube_plans_current.shtml (601 words)

	Government Offices \| National \| Transport
		Improving the transport system and its operation is a critical element in the Government’s economic, social and environmental agenda.
		Each region’s strategy should provide a distinct regional vision for transport that is consistent with national policies and realistic in identifying investment priorities and timescales.
		The Government Office for London is responsible for funding the Mayor and Transport for London, and a number of other statutory functions.
	www.goem.gov.uk /goeast/transport (379 words)

	London Underground modernisation: government response to written question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At my request, Ernst and Young reviewed London Underground's original value for money assessment and confirmed that, overall, London Underground's methodology for assessing value for money was robust, and that London Underground's recommendation that the PPP proposals deliver value for money, while subjective, was supported by its analysis.
		London Regional Transport's decision has been taken in the light of an extensive consultation with Transport for London.
		London Regional Transport has accepted some of the points Transport for London has made, and made changes to the contracts accordingly.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_railways/documents/page/dft_railways_504029.hcsp (582 words)

	Greater London Authority Bill
		(2) London Regional Transport shall be under a duty, and shall be taken at any time before the coming into force of this section to have had power, to do all such things as it considers appropriate for any transitional purpose.
		(5) London Regional Transport and Transport for London shall each provide to the other such information as may reasonably be required by that other for the purpose of discharging any of its functions during the transitional period.
		(4) Transport for London shall be substituted for London Regional Transport in any instruments, contracts or legal proceedings which relate to an abolished function and which were made or commenced before the abolition of the function.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199899/ldbills/054/99054-au.htm (1028 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Hounslow Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		London Regional Transport was due to reveal whether the PPP contracts were still under negotiation by 10am yesterday, after which the London Mayor and his Transport Commissioner, Bob Kiley, were due to 'carefully review' the response with their lawyers.
		The legal action is being threatened by the Mayor as a means of enforcing London's interests in relation to the PPP proposal.
		In a statement issued on Monday, he said: "London Regional Transport continues to fail to answer the key question which we have been putting to them since February 22 'are the PPP contracts still under negotiation'?
	www.hounslowguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=54725 (148 words)

	London Regional Transport fares policy: second report together with the proceedings of the Committee and minutes of ...
		The Committee was told by LRT that the Underground system in Central London was almost at an intolerable level of overcrowding and that measures such as fares increases would have to be put in place to reduce the growth in passenger demand and thereby stop the situation becoming dangerous.
		LRT expects to put in place fare increases over the rate of inflation in each of the next five years.
		They state that property developments should not be permitted to cause a transport crisis in Central London or in local areas and that in the meantime, the financing of the Central London Rail proposals should be kept separate from other fares policy issues.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref21486.html (303 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Government sacks Kiley as London Transport head
		Mr Kiley, who received notification of the move in a letter, remains commissioner of Transport for London and head of the Transport for London board, which is under the direct control of the London mayor, Ken Livingstone.
		Mr Kiley, who used to run New York's subway, was appointed chairman of London Regional Transport in May to lead negotiations on the controversial contracts, which are bitterly opposed by both transport unions and Mr Livingstone on safety grounds.
		The transport department said that in the light of Mr Kiley's inability to reach agreement with the bidders, the government asked London Underground to go ahead with plans for improving and updating the tube's infrastructure using PPP.
	www.guardian.co.uk /transport/Story/0,2763,523157,00.html (665 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		London Regional Transport was due to reveal whether the PPP contracts were under negotiation by 10am on Wednesday, after which the Mayor and his Transport Commissioner, Bob Kiley, were due to review their response.
		The legal action is being threatened as a means of enforcing London's interests in relation to PPP.
		In a statement on Monday, he said: "London Regional Transport continue to fail to answer the question which we have been putting since February 22 'are the PPP contracts still under negotiation'?
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=54775 (156 words)

	Travel Channel :: Must-See Attractions in London
		London is home to the most watched monarchy in the world, and has more museums and historical sites than you can shake a double-decker bus at.
		London serves up what many consider the best Indian food outside Bombay, and houses a truly hip and energetic social scene.
		Since it was built in the 11th century, the Tower of London has seen its share of action; it has been used as a fortress, a prison, a treasury, a palace and a zoo.
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/europe/england/whattodo_london.html (1012 words)

	Greater London Authority Bill
		- (1) There shall be transferred to and vest in Transport for London by virtue of this subsection all property, rights and liabilities to which London Regional Transport is entitled or subject immediately before it ceases to exist.
		(b) is in the process of being done by or in relation to London Regional Transport immediately before it ceases to exist.
		Any reference in or by virtue of any Local or Personal Act which has effect as a reference to London Regional Transport immediately before it ceases to exist, shall have effect as a reference to Transport for London.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199899/cmbills/007/99007--v.htm (417 words)

	The London Transport Pension Arrangements Order 2000
		The Schedule to the London Transport (Male Wages Grades Pensions) Order 1966[6] (rules of the scheme) shall be amended in accordance with Schedule 3 to this Order.
		The scheme, which may be the LRT Pension Fund or another, must provide overall materially at least as good benefits as the LRT Pension Fund did in respect of the person's service immediately before he joined the private sector company.
		Assets matching those liabilities are to be transferred by London Transport to that Fund and the members of the LT(MWG) Scheme are transferred to it.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2000/20003386.htm (5191 words)

	IAN'S BUS STOP: Optare Citypacer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The minibuses met a local need, but the London traffic proved punishing for the lightweight Volkswagen chassis, and by 1990 they were being replaced by other types: several went into the training fleet in 1990, and during 1991 they mostly went into store for sale.
		London Country North-West was the winner of the tender for LRT's C2 route (Regents Street - Camden Town), replacing the northern end of route 53 for a start in March 1987.
		LRT gave the operations contract to London Buses, and the three buses moved in to Victoria Basement in February 1988 for a March start.
	www.fortunecity.com /silverstone/subaru/98/midi/OV.htm (874 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Kiley hits out over sacking
		London's transport commissioner Bob Kiley is accusing ministers of trying to create a "smokescreen" to dangers in their Tube plans by sacking him as chairman of London Regional Transport.
		As Mr Livingstone's transport commissioner, Mr Kiley is due to take the government to court on Monday to try to stop the PPP plans.
		After hearing news of Mr Kiley's sacking from the London Regional Transport Board, Mr Livingstone said the transport commissioner would still be running the system whether or not PPP was used.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1443000/1443576.stm (767 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Q&A: Bob Kiley dismissed
		He is the American who was brought in at great expense by London mayor Ken Livingstone to turn around London's transport system.
		Now that he has been dismissed from the chairmanship of London Regional Transport with immediate effect, that is no longer the case.
		Sources in the mayor's office have said Mr Kiley's appointment to the London Regional Transport positions was just a tactical move designed to close down the argument over funding for the tube until after the general election.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/business/1443722.stm (497 words)

	homepageindex
		Following the Governments decision to take over finacial control of London Transport, and the subsequent abolition of the GLC together with the setting up of London Regional Transport and the "Buses" white paper of 1985, deregulation of bus services outside the central London area became law.
		Many suburban and rural bus services were affected by this act of parliament which forced local authorities to review their spending on local transport needs, and therefore put routes out to tender thus allowing private operators to tender for services which before were operated by the big monopoly of London Transport.
		As a subsidiary company of both London Regional Transport and London Buses this new company was born.
	www.geocities.com /roundabout_1986_1995/homepageindex.html (422 words)

	Land Compensation : Section 10 : Special Cases within the Compensation Code - Appendix 10/3 : Railtrack Plc And London ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The term 'track width' is interpreted as applying to existing tracks and will not include widths left for future tracks unless it can be established that Railtrack/LRT have a sufficiently definite and imminent intention to lay additional tracks.
		"London" refers to property situated in the London Boroughs or the City of London.
		It is considered that such a method would produce an excessive level of compensation and the method specified above should therefore be applied.
	www.voa.gov.uk /instructions/chapters/land_compensation_ch5/sect10/s10app3.htm (721 words)

	Government Offices \| London \| Regional Transport Strategy
		The Regional Transport Strategy is informed by the delivery programmes of the Highways Agency and the Strategic Rail Authority and informs Local Transport Plans.
		A Regional Transport Strategy is a statutory requirement of the planning system, as set out in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act of 2004.
		In turn the Regional Transport Strategy sets a framework for the region within which future programmes and plans should sit.
	www.gol.gov.uk /gol/transport/tranat/retrstnat (112 words)

	Transport for London - TfL Board Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From 1994 to 1999, he was Convenor of the Transportation Committee on the City of Edinburgh Council and Transport Spokesperson for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and until March 2005 was Chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport.
		Patrick is the Regional Organiser for the Transport and General Workers’ Union for the East of England.
		She currently consults to Land Securities, Grosvenor and John McAslan and Partners; is on the Board of Transport for London, Chairs the Burlington Gardens Development Committee for the Royal Academy and is Vice Chairman of Bath Western Riverside Regeneration Panel and London Food.
	www.dlr.co.uk /tfl/abt_members.shtml (2182 words)

	Government Offices \| London \| Local Transport Plans
		Their introduction was announced in the Government’s Transport White Paper ‘A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone’ published in July 1998.
		The Transport Act 2000 made local transport plans statutory to give a coherent framework to local transport powers and duties.
		Since the introduction of an elected Mayor, much of the transport function has been passed to the Mayor and the Greater London Authority, who – along with Transport for London - produces London's regional transport strategy and allocate funds to London Boroughs for their local implementation plans.
	www.goeast.gov.uk /gol/transport/tranat/lotrplnat?view=Print (270 words)

	Public bus transport management systems: some international examples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For coordinating urban transport, a precursor to an autonomous agency was set up under an agreement between the minister of economy and the mayor of Buenos Aires, in 1991.
		In late 1996, it was converted into a new unit – TUAMBA or Transporte Urbano del Area Metropolitana de Buenos Aires – with the objective of maintaining it as the core for metropolitan transport planning.
		The London Regional Transport Act of 1984 transferred the control of London Transport from the Greater London Council to that of a board appointed by the government.
	www.teriin.org /pub/newslet/reguteri7.htm (1686 words)

	Nagarajan v London Regional Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The tribunal found that the interview panel had been "consciously or subconsciously" influenced in their decision by their knowledge of the previous complaints; but the appeal tribunal and Court of Appeal had held that conscious motivation was a prerequisite for a finding of victimisation under s 2(1).
		Appearances: Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC and Dinah Rose (Alexanders) for the applicant.
		Elizabeth Slade QC and Peter Oldham (Solicitor, London Transport Group) for LRT.
	www.lawreports.co.uk /hlpc_jul0.5.htm (373 words)

	Nagarajan v London Regional Transport [1999] IRLR 573, HL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The applicant was of Indian racial origin and employed by London Underground Ltd as a station foreman between June 1979 and December 1988.
		He made an application to the ET claiming that LRT and the personnel manager were guilty of victimisation.
		The mere fact that LRT had knowledge of the protected acts carried out by Nagarajan did not mean that the inference could be drawn that this knowledge influenced the decision to treat the applicant less favourably.
	cre.gov.uk /legal/victimisation/case_003nagarajan.html (849 words)

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