20/10/2012 BBC London News


20/10/2012

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Good afternoon from BBC London News, I'm Louisa Preston.

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Greenwich Council has been accused of appalling management of the

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�11.5 million refurbishment of two- foot tunnels under the Thames that

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still haven't been completed. The authority says there will be an

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independent investigation into what went wrong, as Sonja Jessup reports.

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This is what we have had and as you can see, it is filthy. It is rush-

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hour beneath the River Thames. But few commuters seemed impressed by

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the new look Greenwich foot tunnel. It is really badly lit, the cabling

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is exposed... At least when we visited, the new lift was working.

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But as this film shows, that is not always the case. Greenwich Council

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commissioned work on this tunnel but there were a grand over

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schedule and over budget. Closures caused serious disruption for

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hundreds of commuters. There have been occasions when I have turned

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up and without any prior warning this was not available and suddenly

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you are half-an-hour late. Going up and down those stairs for about 18

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months carrying the bike every day. Absolutely disgusting. It is �11.5

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million wasted. The council is now exploring legal action to try to

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cover its costs. It has apologised for unacceptable delays and says

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there will be an independent investigations into this and other

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products. I think it has been inadequate and appalling, some

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would say, and there need to be serious changes in the way these

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big projects are handled to stop money being wasted. The council

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says it is unable to reveal how much it will cost to finish the

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tunnels. It says the priority is to get the work done as quickly as

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possible. A rapist who avoided justice for

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nearly 25 years has been jailed. 54-year-old John William Good

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attacked a nurse in Uxbridge in 1987. A Metropolitan Police cold-

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case review in 2011 established the availability of DNA samples which

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could be tested after advances in forensic science.

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The London cable car is coming under scrutiny after a steep fall

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in passenger numbers since the Olympics. Figures for September

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showed the river crossing is running at less than 10% capacity.

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Labour London Assembly Member John Biggs says the link, which cost �60

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million to build, is not a serious transport solution. Two concerns,

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essentially it is a tourist pink and no problem with that but it was

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proposed as a transport solution and it is not really doing that.

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Secondly, something which would help people get onto it would be to

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reduce the fez because unless you plan in advance you can place it --

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pays �6.80 return. But Transport for London says the

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cable car has already exceeded its target of carrying 1.3 millions

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passengers in its first year. They say it is a good mode of transport

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for tourists but it can suit the regular commuter, too. We thought

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about local people so we have got a ticket which is just �1.16, the

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price of a cup of coffee, to travel on the Emirates Air Line if you are

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a regular user, and you can do that with Oyster pay as you go or a pre-

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bought a ticket. Some commuters are using it. If

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John Terry will stay as the Chelsea captain, according to the club's

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chairman, Bruce Buck. He also confirmed that Terry has been

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heavily fined after being found guilty by the Football Association

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