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NEW: For the first time ever, our six London Overground lines are each getting a new name and colour.

Read more about the inspiration and meaning behind each new name ⬇️ Image
The Windrush line

📍 Highbury & Islington to Clapham Junction/New Cross/Crystal Palace/West Croydon

Map colour: Red

The Windrush generation continues to shape our city today. This line honours them and runs through areas with strong ties to Caribbean communities. Image
The Weaver line

📍 Liverpool Street to Cheshunt/Enfield Town/Chingford

Map colour: Maroon

The Weaver line runs through Liverpool Street, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green and Hackney - areas of London known for their textile trade, and shaped by migrant communities & individuals. Image
The Suffragette line

📍 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside

Map colour: Green

The Suffragette line celebrates the working-class movement born in the East End that fought for votes for women. Barking was home to Annie Huggett, the longest surviving Suffragette. Image
The Mildmay line

📍Richmond to Clapham Junction/Stratford

Map colour: Blue

The Mildmay Mission Hospital is a small charitable hospital in Shoreditch that has cared for all Londoners for decades. It played a pivotal role in the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Image
The Lioness line

📍Euston to Watford Junction

Map colour: Yellow

Running through Wembley, this line honours the historic achievements and lasting legacy of the England women’s football team that continues to inspire and empower the next generation of girls. Image
The Liberty line

📍 Romford to Upminster

Map colour: Grey

This line runs through Havering and celebrates the historic independence of the people of Havering and its status as a Royal Liberty, an area that traditionally had more self-governance and autonomy. Image

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Aug 6, 2024
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Now is the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.

In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe.🧵
Our communities are facing the threat of hatred - including violence - fuelled by insidious racism, prejudice, and Islamophobia.

It’s the legacy of decades of dog whistles, including from some irresponsible politicians.
We all bear not just the responsibility, but also the duty to stand up to hate.

To be vocal. To be allies to those who are being unjustly targeted - online and off.

To our Black, Brown and minority communities: NEVER forget that you are loved and wanted in London.
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Jul 7, 2022
This has been one of the most shameful sagas in the history of British politics.

Boris Johnson has presided over a government defined by lies, sleaze, an utter lack of integrity, unlawful behaviour, incompetence, and a damaging culture of impunity in public office. 🧵
At every turn, his government has sought to stoke division, play communities off against one another & level down our capital city for political gain.

This has caused immense damage - harming our economy, feeding public cynicism & degrading our country in the eyes of the world.
Truth, decency and integrity in public office matter.

There will be a collective sigh of relief across the country now he has finally agreed to leave Number 10, but that departure simply cannot wait until the Autumn now so much damage has been done.
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Jun 23, 2022
1. Grant Shapps’ latest TfL funding letter is total nonsense.

It seems he has:

➡️ no basic understanding of how TfL finances work and

➡️ no respect for the truth - a common theme with this Government.

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2. In 2015, Boris Johnson and George Osborne agreed to remove £1bn/year govt funding from TfL.

Since I became Mayor in 2016, TfL has saved £1bn/year.
3. On top of that, due to the conditions forced on it by the Government in return for some compensation for fares revenue lost during the pandemic, it's current budget already assumes hundreds of millions of further cuts.
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Jun 1, 2022
The Tory bus cuts explained: 🧵

1️⃣ During the pandemic, Londoners did the right thing and stayed at home to save lives.

But doing so decimated TfL's finances because it is so reliant on fares revenue.
2️⃣ Unlike other major cities e.g. NYC & Paris, our transport network does not receive substantial funding from central Govt.

Our capital is crucial to the UK economy & our transport system is the fuel that makes it run. Underfunding it is economic ignorance of the highest order.
3️⃣ The Government know that failure to adequately fund TfL will result in cuts.

TfL have calculated that it would mean cuts to 21 bus routes - routes that Londoners use every day.
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