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Good afternoon from BBC London News, I'm Louisa Preston. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Greenwich Council has been accused of appalling management of the | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
�11.5 million refurbishment of two- foot tunnels under the Thames that | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
still haven't been completed. The authority says there will be an | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
independent investigation into what went wrong, as Sonja Jessup reports. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
This is what we have had and as you can see, it is filthy. It is rush- | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
hour beneath the River Thames. But few commuters seemed impressed by | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
the new look Greenwich foot tunnel. It is really badly lit, the cabling | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
is exposed... At least when we visited, the new lift was working. | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
But as this film shows, that is not always the case. Greenwich Council | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
commissioned work on this tunnel but there were a grand over | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
schedule and over budget. Closures caused serious disruption for | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
hundreds of commuters. There have been occasions when I have turned | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
up and without any prior warning this was not available and suddenly | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
you are half-an-hour late. Going up and down those stairs for about 18 | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
months carrying the bike every day. Absolutely disgusting. It is �11.5 | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
million wasted. The council is now exploring legal action to try to | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
cover its costs. It has apologised for unacceptable delays and says | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
there will be an independent investigations into this and other | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
products. I think it has been inadequate and appalling, some | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
would say, and there need to be serious changes in the way these | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
big projects are handled to stop money being wasted. The council | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
says it is unable to reveal how much it will cost to finish the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
tunnels. It says the priority is to get the work done as quickly as | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
possible. A rapist who avoided justice for | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
nearly 25 years has been jailed. 54-year-old John William Good | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
attacked a nurse in Uxbridge in 1987. A Metropolitan Police cold- | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
case review in 2011 established the availability of DNA samples which | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
could be tested after advances in forensic science. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
The London cable car is coming under scrutiny after a steep fall | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
in passenger numbers since the Olympics. Figures for September | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
showed the river crossing is running at less than 10% capacity. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Labour London Assembly Member John Biggs says the link, which cost �60 | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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million to build, is not a serious transport solution. Two concerns, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
essentially it is a tourist pink and no problem with that but it was | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
proposed as a transport solution and it is not really doing that. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Secondly, something which would help people get onto it would be to | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
reduce the fez because unless you plan in advance you can place it -- | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
pays �6.80 return. But Transport for London says the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
cable car has already exceeded its target of carrying 1.3 millions | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
passengers in its first year. They say it is a good mode of transport | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
for tourists but it can suit the regular commuter, too. We thought | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
about local people so we have got a ticket which is just �1.16, the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
price of a cup of coffee, to travel on the Emirates Air Line if you are | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
a regular user, and you can do that with Oyster pay as you go or a pre- | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
bought a ticket. Some commuters are using it. If | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
John Terry will stay as the Chelsea captain, according to the club's | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
chairman, Bruce Buck. He also confirmed that Terry has been | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
heavily fined after being found guilty by the Football Association | :03:47. | :03:53. |