Buses

Balham and Tooting Bec

• Provide a direct bus route along Trinity Road to Wandsworth Bridge and Fulham Broadway.
• Introduce a service between Balham and Wandsworth.

Clapham Junction

• Combine the 170 (Roehampton to Clapham Junction) and 239 (Clapham Junction to Victoria) into one service. This would avoid the need for buses to turn round and stand at Clapham Junction.
• Improve facilities at the Meyrick Arms bus stand.
• Extend the bus stand at Falcon Lane

Putney and Roehampton

• Improve services to the hospital, university and local housing estates.
• Upgrade traffic signals in Putney High Street to make buses more reliable.
• New service from Barnes Station along Priory Lane to Danebury Avenue.
• New bus route serving Richmond Park.

Tooting

• Extend more bus routes into the grounds of St George's Hospital.
• Extend the bus stand at the hospital, to reduce the problems in Longmead Road which is often overloaded.

Wandsworth Riverside

• Provide bus links from new riverside developments to major stations at Putney and Clapham Junction.

Tube services

Northern Line
LU and Tubelines have been trying to improve reliability by splitting services at Kennington and cutting peak time frequencies on the Charing Cross branch.The outlook is one of continued disruption with overcrowding likely to continue until 2011 at least.

Local commuters should be consulted before any further plans to split the two central London branches of the line go ahead.

District Line
Progress on installation of new track and signalling has been hit by the Metronet crisis. New trains have been promised for the line which would increase capacity by a half. But the earliest date is 2011 - far behind that for other routes.

TfL must guarantee that the planned modernisation for the line will go ahead without further delays.

New lifts
Proposals for new lifts at East Putney (District Line) have been held up following the collapse of Metronet. There are no plans for lifts at Tooting Bec or Balham (Northern Line) - even though Network Rail have just installed a new lift up to the mainline station at Balham.

LU must ensure that new lifts at Balham - which is an important interchange Tooting Bec and East Putney are programmed over the next four years.

River services

Make river services part of the TfL network
Bring fares into line with other forms of public transport including payment by Oyster card.
More frequent services - particularly at peak hours
More stops along the river including new piers in Wandsworth and Battersea
Extension of services further up-stream from Putney Investment in newer, environmentally cleaner, more efficient craft
Better integration at Blackfriars for services to Canary Wharf.
Better passenger information at Blackfriars to promote the Putney service

Rail services

Clapham Junction and the East London Line
The first phase of the East London extension will provide a link to Croydon and open in 2010. The second phase would make it possible for commuters from Clapham Junction to get to Canary Wharf with just one change at Canada Water.

The Mayor must give the go ahead now so that the Clapham Junction extension could be operational by 2012.

Clapham Junction to Heathrow
The Airtrack project would provide a direct link from Waterloo via Clapham Junction. The council would also want a stop at Putney. The project only needs four kilometres of new track but the Government is now linking it to its plans for a third runway.

Access to Heathrow is bad enough already. BAA and Network Rail should be told to get on with the parliamentary approvals so that the new service can be up and running by 2012.

Clapham Junction - new station entrance
Plans for a new entrance further up St John's Hill giving direct access to the station footbridge would relieve congestion in the subway. While these private sector-led proposals are still at an early stage, work is due to start shortly on new lifts down to the station platforms.

Network Rail, South West Trains and TfL must make sure that a new entrance is provided and can meet the demands of passengers.

Clapham Junction - Overground services
TfL has recently launched its new Overground service in place of Silverlink Metro. But, because Clapham Junction is run by South West Trains, TfL have been reluctant to upgrade the platform used by Overground (Number 2).

The Mayor should ensure TfL and South West Trains bring this platform up to standard.

Watford to Brighton via Clapham Junction
Southern's planned timetable for December 2008 will cut the current Watford-Gatwick-Brighton service south of Clapham Junction. This is because trains are being switched to Thameslink Services.

The Mayor should join local councils and passenger groups in pressing the Transport Secretary to reverse her decision so that through services between Watford, Gatwick and Brighton can be retained.

Waterloo International - reopen for commuters
Only one of the five extra-long platforms at the former international terminal stands any chance of being operational by the end of 2008. The council wants priority given to overcrowded commuter services.

The DfT should instruct Network Rail to bring forward the necessary signalling and engineering works and publish firm dates for the return of the Eurostar platforms to domestic use.

10-car trains on commuter services
New ten-car trains are promised for the Windsor line in 2010 - with the only local stops at Putney and Clapham Junction. It could be 2014 before other local stations benefit.

South West Trains, Southern, Network Rail and the DfT should be urged to bring forward plans for longer trains and platforms at all their stations in the borough.

Oyster pre-pay at rail stations
So far Oyster pre-pay has only been introduced on the West London Line from Clapham Junction. The capital's ten train operating companies now say this facility will be available on their services by 2009.

The train companies should be held to their promises so that south Londoners, who are heavily dependent on local rail services, can get the full benefit from their Oyster card.

Thameslink for Tooting
This project will eventually provide a major upgrade of existing north-south routes via London Bridge. The first local benefits are unlikely before 2012 when longer trains and additional services should be running - this could bring some relief to the Northern Line.

DfT, Network Rail and the train operators should be pressed to increase train frequencies on the Tooting loop line from Streatham to provide better links to the wider network.

Many of the improvements in this list - particularly those for bus services can be switched on very quickly and would bring real benefits for local people. Others we appreciate will take more effort and coordination. Progress on all would demonstrate a real commitment to improving public transport services for people in Wandsworth and south London.