August

• A £300 million contract is let for the upgrade of Bond Street station
• The first of 191 air-conditioned S Stock trains enters passenger service

July

• Transport for London launches Barclays Cycle Hire bicycle sharing scheme
• New safety measures announced for safety with cyclists around lorries
• New cable car system announced in the Thames Gateway area
• Southfields stations becomes step-free
• Fewer delays in cars being held up by traffic lights

June

• Bus crime lowest in six years
• Early closure of Northern Line cancelled
• Exhibition at Aldwych until July 9th
• More air-conditioned Underground and Overground trains on their way
• New electric vehicles with special livery to distinguish them join the taxis
• Hammersmith & City and Circle to close between 24th July and 15th August for upgrade work as well as works to do with Paddington station and Crossrail
• Rotherhithe tunnel to be southbound during weekend closures
• New Digital Countdowns to be trialled telling people how long they have to cross the road
• Deaths and serious injuries on roads half that of a decade ago in London
• Improvements such as maps, signs and timetables as well as flags showing "River Buses" for commuter boats and "River Tours" for tourists to be introduced

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times) Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

Articles

• One article was promoted to featured article status and one to featured list status in July
• Three articles were promoted to Good Article status in July
• Underground Electric Railways Company of London has been nominated for featured article status and Aldwych tube station has been nominated for good article status
• There are currently 2,649 project articles; all have been assessed for quality and importance. If you see a new article on a project topic which is not rated, please add the banner to the talk page and assess it.

Portal

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Requests

• New usage data has been published by TfL for the London Underground for 2009. These could be added to station article infoboxes
• Tyw7 has requested help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
• MRSC has requested help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital
• File:Thames tunnels.svg (below) requires updating (leave a note here explaining what needs doing)

Members

• Newest members: Alzarian16 (talk · contribs) and Sillybillypiggy (talk · contribs) joined in April
• Number of participants is 81

Editorial

• This month's guest editor: DavidCane (talk)
• Usual editor Simply south (talk) has requested a volunteer edit the September edition of this newsletter
• All suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcome at feedback page

Recently promoted to Featured Article or Featured List

• List of former and unopened London Underground stations, 20 July 2010
• Wotton (Metropolitan Railway) railway station, 31 July 2010

Recently assessed as Good Articles

• Westminster tube station, 4 July 2010
• Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 7 July 2010
• Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway, 1 August 2010

Featured Article candidates (here)

• Underground Electric Railways Company of London

Good Article candidates (here)

• Aldwych tube station

Most visited pages

• For a list of the most Project's most visited pages, see Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages

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