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27 August 2009
More than eight in 10 of the 700 respondents to the London Assembly survey say their journeys are blighted at least once a month by the modernisation programme, the Evening Standard has learned.
Nearly a third said alternative travel arrangements offered by Transport for London were unsuitable or inconvenient, with more than half describing replacement bus services as poor. The news comes as Mayor Boris Johnson and TfL commissioner Peter Hendy prepare to summon private maintenance firm Tube Lines to a crisis summit next month to discuss delays in the £500million modernisation of the Jubilee Line.
The line has been closed in part or completely every weekend this year, with another dozen closures planned before the end of the year. Tube Lines chief executive Dean Finch said new signalling equipment - which will allow up to 30 trains an hour at peak times - has been installed, but still needs to be tested.
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