TfL commissioner Andy Lord warned that different Tube traces — the Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly, most definitely — are subsequent susceptible to having their trains fail. He blames years of missed engineering overhauls when TfL was combating for survival throughout the pandemic. Honest sufficient, however what about now? TfL is because of submit its first-ever working surplus (£144 million) whereas Mr Khan (chair of TfL) has simply allotted £177 million (of a £500 million pre-election windfall) to freeze fares, pay putting Tube workers extra and scrap peak Tube and prepare fares on Fridays for a couple of months. That’s greater than £320 million. Even with hundreds of thousands extra anticipated in fares earnings, it’s not sufficient to purchase a brand new fleet of trains (£1.6 billion is the going fee). However couldn’t it not less than pay for brand new, somewhat than reconditioned, motors for the Central line?