overcrowding - 19 Items Tagged Within News
Transport for Wales rail services become dangerously overcrowded
RMT has written to the Welsh Government Minister responsible for Transport for Wales, Julie James, demanding urgent action to prevent further passenger abuse and mistreatment of rail staff because of a shortage of train carriages covering holiday/ daytrip destinations. The...
Region: South Wales and West; South West
Tagged with: Transport for Wales, Welsh Government, Covid-19, Overcrowding
RMT says axing staff is an act of gross negligence
As a new report issued today by the Labour Party exposes the growing scandal of severe overcrowding on Britain's railways, specialist transport union RMT says that the axing of safety-critical staff by private rail operators is an act of gross...
Region: National
Tagged with: Overcrowding, Staff
RMT on rail overcrowding in the current heatwave
“The combination of overcrowding on our trains and the current on-going heatwave is putting huge pressure on services and the rail workers across the network striving to keep Britain moving.
“Hot and overcrowded trains increase the risk of passengers being...
Region: National
Tagged with: rail, railways, train, overcrowding, guards, conductors
RMT on Labour party research showing surge in overcrowding
General Secretary Mick Cash said: “These are shocking new figures that show once again that the British people are paying the highest fares in Europe to travel on rammed out and unreliable services while the private train companies are...
Region: National
Tagged with: rail overcrowding, labour party, doo, driver only operation
RMT on London Underground overcrowding figures
Reports on the Press Association today reveal that there were 547 so-called ``temporary station controls'' on London Underground from March 2015 to February 2016, according to data released by Transport for London (TfL) in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, overcrowding, tfl, transport for london
"Truly terrifying" tube overcrowding warnings
RMT on projections in the Sunday Times today that surging tube numbers will mean more than four passengers per square meter at 50 of the 62 zone one stations within fifteen years.
Mick Cash, RMT General Secretary, said;
"These projections...
Region: National
Tagged with: Tube, Overcrowding
New figures confirm RMT warnings
New figures pulled out of Transport for London by a Freedom of Information request show that the number of passengers falling between the train and the platform has more than trebled in ten years with RMT laying the blame on...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, tube, overcrowding, platform train interface
RMT calls for investigation into Canning Town incident
TUBE UNION RMT said today that there “must be no cover up” over an incident last week where a passenger fell between the train and the platform at Canning Town – exposing the growing problem of overcrowding and its impact...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, tfl, overcrowding, dlr, jubilee line
Dangerous overcrowding hits Kings X and Victoria this a.m.
General secretary Mick Cash said. "The dangerous and chronic overcrowding on London Underground has worsened this morning with Kings Cross closed and Victoria diverting passengers during the peak.
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"This lethal chaos cannot be allowed to...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: kings cross, victoria, london underground, lul, tfl, overcrowding
Huge rise in injuries on London Underground
Tube union RMT today blasted the “poisonous cocktail of cuts and overcrowding as an FOI request by the website London Loves Business revealed an increase in over 400% in platform injuries on London Underground. The research shows that in 2003, a grand...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, tfl, overcrowding
RMT on Tube overcrowding stats
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "The news today that tube passenger numbers have once again broken all records comes against a background of severe and dangerous overcrowding as we try and cram more people into services already busting at the...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, overcrowding, job losses
RMT on another morning of signal failures and breakdowns
General Secretary Mick Cash said. "The intolerable pressure on transport services in and out of London is growing by the day and the toxic mix of massive overcrowding and infrastructure failures is leaving both rail and tube on a knife...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: overcrowding, infrastructure, breakdowns, signal failures
RMT warns of continuing tube overcrowding
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "The news today that Oxford Circus has had to be closed 112 times in the past year due to severe overcrowding is the clearest warning yet that the tube network is bursting at the seams. It...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, lul, overcrowding
RMT on rugby world cup rail chaos
"RMT warned from the off that the rail companies had inadequate capacity and staff in place to deal with the added pressures of the Rugby World Cup and that failure to prepare has led to utter chaos with our members...
Region: National
Tagged with: Rugby World Cup, Overcrowding
RMT slams train overcrowding scandal
September 9th 2015
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RMT SLAMS TRAIN OVERCROWDING SCANDAL WHILE ROLLING STOCK COMPANIES MAKE A FORTUNE
Rail union RMT today blasted the “gross profiteering at public expense” on Britain’s railways as the official overcrowding report was published today: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/459330/rail-passengers-crowding-2014.pdf...
Region: National
Tagged with: overcrowding, rolling stock companies
RMT lifts lid on the truth behind the London Bridge chaos
*New track and signalling layout poorly installed* *Incorrect procedures followed* *Corners cut on quality of new points* *Network Rail engineers left to correct contractor faults*
*Some installation mistakes potentially dangerous* *Concerns raised by union members ignored*
Rail union RMT...
Region: National
Tagged with: London Bridge, Chaos, Overcrowding
Chaos continues at London Bridge and across Capital
General Secretary Mick Cash said.
"PR stunts and sticking plaster solutions were never going to end the dangerous chaos at London Bridge. Our signalling members warned repeatedly that this was a disaster waiting to happen when they first saw the...
Region: National
Tagged with: London Bridge, Chaos, Overcrowding
RMT demands summit into overcrowding and rail chaos
General Secretary Mick Cash said.
"This has been another miserable morning for commuters as train breakdowns and electrical faults were amongst the problems that have wrecked services into London yet again.
"It is scandalous that private rail companies continue to...
Region: National
Tagged with: Overcrowding, Electrical faults Thameslink, South West Trains
Overcrowding exposes lethal consequences of axing guards
In an interview with the Financial Times, Alistair Gordon, boss of Keolis which runs TPE, admitted that passengers simply cannot get on to trains and that he recently saw a passenger faint due to the consequences of overcrowding, The boss...
Region: National
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