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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure Transport for London implement a cross-river replacement bus service when they close the East London line later this year. More details

Submitted by Joe Godwin – Deadline to sign up by: 16 January 2008 – Signatures: 311

Petition update, 20 February 2008

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "ensure Transport for London implement a cross-river replacement bus service when they close the East London line later this year."

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14610.asp

Prime Minister's Office

More details from petition creator

TfL have decided that, in order to turn the East London Line into the East London Railway, and extend it North and South, they will have to close it for at least two years.

Many, many people in Wapping (and Shadwell) rely on the East London Line to connect with the Jubilee Line, for their journeys to work and elsewhere. The replacement bus service TfL intend to implement does not cross the river, therefore making a connection to the Jubilee line impossible.

The replacement buses they intend to run do not run as late as the ELL.

The ELL has already been closed for several years in recent times for refurbishment. Residents of Wapping now have to deal with complete closure of their lifeline tube service for the second time - something that has never been asked of the users of any other tube line.

We ask the Prime Minister and the Government to use their influence to ensure that TfL introduce a cross-river bus service, that runs for the same hours and at a similar frequency to the East London line.

Current signatories

Joe Godwin, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • Jom Zantua
  • Anthony Frank Dickey
  • Jill cochrane
  • Dr John S Lane
  • Ben Stevenson
  • Fred Badowski
  • Pauline Daniels
  • Laura Bodfish
  • Scott Frampton
  • Kirsty Salter
  • Ed Bretherton
  • Colin Dunlop
  • Emma Charrington
  • Andrew Mileham
  • Jessica Mohun
  • Malcolm Macaulay
  • Penny Shankar
  • andrew sutton
  • Lorraine Bates
  • Nick Greenwood
  • Josh Doherty
  • Suzanne Jackson
  • Iain Ashby
  • Paul Kellaway
  • Hannah Cahill
  • Michael Henderson
  • Alison Steel
  • John Michael Niblett
  • Jill Niblett
  • Francesca Badowska
  • Timothy Green
  • Daniel Luper
  • Irene Schupfer
  • Tammy Davis
  • Leanne Waymark
  • Jeremy Leasor
  • Adam Westmoreland
  • Wendy Lane
  • Louisa Cordle
  • Tim Jones
  • Elizabeth Goulding
  • Angela Deakin
  • Derek R Allum
  • Joanne Carter
  • Sajjid Hussain
  • Robert Henry Scott
  • Mike Smith
  • Alexander Thompson
  • John Webb
  • Elaine McKenzie
  • JS Newby
  • Adrian Dennehy
  • Catherine McKenzie
  • Siobhan Craven-Robins
  • alison yeadon
  • Kell Holland
  • jill everett
  • Francesco Maisto
  • Carsten Keller
  • mark walker
  • Stefanie Nordmann
  • Mark Franklin
  • Yvonne Franklin
  • Graham Taylor
  • verena leonard
  • Tom Henderson
  • angie geehan
  • Simon Norris
  • Derian Keyms
  • Anna Faherty
  • Lesley Pavitt
  • Kate Hoey
  • Liane Venner
  • Jil Cove
  • Leo Bocci
  • Elizabeth Mantle
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Ron Harley
  • Manuel Dube
  • David Millward
  • Terry Bates
  • Robin Millward
  • Katherine Richardson
  • Rachel Walsh
  • Philip Walsh
  • James Ashworth
  • barry O'Leary
  • Marianne Fredericks
  • Roy Tindle
  • Jon Aldenton
  • Patricia Singleton
  • alexandra kind
  • Ruth Newton
  • T W Carruthers
  • David Turnbull
  • Antony Chalupa
  • Atanas Krastanoff
  • Susan Macaulay
  • neisha krastanoff
  • Edgar Cancio
  • Sarah Shelley
  • Stephen Moore
  • Stephen Beckett
  • Paul Brocklehurst
  • Stuart Madewell
  • sheila mavin
  • Madeleine Yarrow
  • Steve Nearchou
  • Joseph Ashmead
  • Natasha McKenzie-Bedenik
  • Peter Morgan
  • Mandy Deacon
  • JOANNA BEALE
  • Nino Constantini
  • Henry Chaw
  • mike davis
  • dinah morley
  • Thushan Kumaraswamy
  • Simon Everitt
  • helen addison
  • Richard Unwin
  • Sally Unwin
  • Ian Hussey
  • Adrian Smith
  • Rhys Phillips
  • Glen Tarman
  • Richard Marriott
  • Janina Siede
  • Hina Qureshi
  • Branislava Milosevic
  • Vicky Miari
  • Juan M Melo
  • David Corkett
  • Shona Conacher
  • Martin Giles
  • Dr Matthew Huggett
  • Jennifer Huggett
  • Michael Tee
  • sophie parkes
  • Matthew Dungey
  • Phung Pham
  • Aoife Hassett
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  • Nicole Bryant
  • Fiona Lee
  • Philip Egar
  • Kellie Bolger
  • Sally Clift
  • Daniel Isaac
  • Alexander Hellier
  • Anne Giles
  • Nicole Da Silva
  • Alvin Chuang
  • Masumi Sato-Dungey
  • Andrew Elliot
  • Elizabeth Hicks
  • Rosie Moon
  • Dave Cousins
  • Helen Clark
  • Justine Elliott
  • Brian King
  • Cindy King
  • Ashton McGregor
  • anna higgs
  • Kim Sturgess
  • paul Lyon
  • Dr Michael You
  • Catherine Walsh
  • Sarah Western Balzer
  • Frank Will
  • Henrik Melph
  • Leo Ingenhaag
  • Brian Ruddie
  • Shona Black
  • delphine cambolin
  • Kevin Eden
  • Cassandra Jones
  • Amanda Patania
  • Louise Langley
  • TIJEN M-ALI
  • FERN McNulty
  • Matthew Salmon
  • Daniel Collings
  • Adrian Clewley
  • Stuart Koenig-Roach
  • Neil Greenaway
  • Shauneen Kelly
  • Elena Liverani
  • Michal Hawrot
  • Luna Dizon
  • Merijn Nederveen
  • Trine Petersen
  • Benedicte Ness
  • Ian Martin
  • David Bridges
  • Adam Fawsitt
  • Roz Ong
  • Sarah Neale
  • Helen Coplestone
  • Helen Chorley
  • Fiona Spencer
  • Mark Taylor
  • Cameron Tye
  • Michelle Tolley
  • Kevin Harrington
  • Maria Garcia-Asencio
  • Odd Inge Aasheim
  • Simon Howes
  • Barry Crittenden
  • Manuela Rey-Alvarez
  • Domini Finch
  • Dickson Aladesanmi
  • Pat Eden
  • David Bailey
  • sarah addiman
  • Karen Lee
  • Julian Perry
  • David John Scott
  • Naoko Kaijo
  • David Sim
  • Lea Traini
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  • Toby Austin
  • Richard King
  • Janet Caton
  • Eugene Rembor
  • Ivan Smith
  • Andrew McManus
  • Muriel Maisborn
  • Muriel Reynaud
  • Carsten Rueth
  • Juergen Juergensen
  • Sandra Knebel-Luong
  • Tanya Hall
  • Andrew Hunt
  • Kevin Franks
  • Ann Meadows
  • Sandra Holloway
  • Amanda Whalley
  • Susan Gostick
  • Mark Thomas
  • Jane O'sullivan
  • helen cummings
  • Gina Hayden
  • Anna Hultman
  • Alan Walker
  • Iqbal Raakin
  • David Allen
  • Antonia Daraki
  • Dimitrios Macridis
  • Marios Aristopoulos
  • Thomas Uhm
  • Anthony Roome
  • Diane Roome
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  • Michael Rudd
  • William Godwin
  • Negin Minakaran
  • Jonathan Wrobel
  • Simon Spencer
  • Alex Sarco
  • Richard MacKinnon
  • Andrew Murdock
  • Margaret Frantz
  • Annie Bryant
  • Viviane Wild
  • Dominic Evans
  • HARRY erisken
  • Susan Cato
  • stavros kyris
  • gian paolo ansaloni
  • James Gellately-Smith
  • Zara Bailey
  • kevin casey
  • Simon West
  • DAVID SMITH
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