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Timetable changes
Following comments from customers c2c has made some changes to services running through Upminster, effective Monday 4 January. See full details here.
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 TfL fare changes
from 2 January
Transport for London (TfL) has
announced that fares for 2016 will be frozen in real terms for the third
consecutive year, with changes coming into effect on Saturday 2 January. Free
travel for children is also being extended to National Rail services in the
Capital in a move that will benefit hundreds of thousands of families.
Travelcard season tickets will
increase by slightly less than one per cent, but customers can save money by
renewing their Travelcards' season tickets to start on or before Friday 1
January at 2015.
Find out
full details of the fares from Saturday 2 January.
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Travelling in London
at New Year
The main changes to
services on the key days are outlined below. Here is a summary of
the services running each day.
New Year’s Eve, Thursday
31 December Free travel will be
provided on all services from 11.45pm until 4.30am, or last service. Buses
run throughout the night.
From around 2pm, Waterloo, Westminster and Jubilee Bridges, and roads in
central London will start to close to prepare for the ticketed fireworks event.
Buses will gradually be withdrawn. All bridge and road closures will be in
place from 8pm and most will re-open at 6am on Friday 1 January, or when it
is safe to do so. Central London road closures will remain until 6pm because of the New Year’s Day Parade.
New Year’s Day, Friday 1
January - A special service will
operate on most of the network. Buses will run a Sunday service.
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Roadworks
On
Tuesday 5 January, road works will take place on Dennises Lane,
Upminster. Temporary traffic lights will be in use between 9.30am and 3.30pm.
From Tuesday
5 January until Friday 26 February, road works to provide bus
stops will take place at seven locations on Ockendon Road, Upminster. Temporary
traffic lights will be in use between 9.30am and 3pm.
 Havering Police testing
for drugs and drink
A new testing kit will be in use in Havering to check if drivers are using cannabis or cocaine. If four red lines appear on a plastic stick, within 10 minutes of being tested, then the driver is under the influence of one of those drugs. There will be a zero tolerance policy applied.
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Drugs and driving - the Highway Code rule
Rule 96
You MUST
NOT drive under the influence of drugs or medicine. For
medicines, check with your doctor or pharmacist and do not drive if you are
advised that you may be impaired.
You MUST
NOT drive if you have illegal drugs or certain medicines in
your blood above specified limits. It is highly dangerous so never take
illegal drugs if you intend to drive; the effects are unpredictable, but can
be even more severe than alcohol and result in fatal or serious road crashes.
Illegal drugs have been specified at very low levels so even small amounts of
use could be above the specified limits. The limits for certain medicines
have been specified at higher levels, above the levels generally found in the
blood of patients who have taken normal therapeutic doses. If you are found
to have a concentration of a drug above its specified limit in your blood
because you have been prescribed or legitimately supplied a particularly high
dose of medicine, then you can raise a statutory medical defence, provided
your driving was not impaired by the medicine you are taking.
Read more about alcohol and drugs
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Pay as you go extended
to London Gatwick airport
From Monday 11 January, passengers will be able to use pay as
you go with an Oyster or contactless card for journeys between London and
Gatwick Airport on Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink services. Five
other stations along the route - Horley, Salfords, Earlswood, Redhill and
Merstham – will also benefit from the pay as you go ticket technology.
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Bus
station closure
Liverpool
Street bus station will be closed until spring 2016, which will affect passengers
who travel on routes 11, 23, 133, N11 and N133. Leaflets,
including walking maps to the alternative bus stops and route finders are
available to customers at the bus station and customer information centre in
the days leading up to its closure.
All registered Oyster card
holders who regularly use the routes to and from the bus station will also
receive emails about the closure with advice on how to plan their journeys
until the station re-opens. More details at TfL Buses.
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