• SURREY County Council will continue funding the Leatherhead- Dorking section of route 465 (Kingston-Dorking) for the next five years.
• THE ORIGINAL Amersham & District garage, new 1919, will be demolished. It was used as a car dealership for many years and outlasted its replacement, opened by London Transport in 1935, by nearly 20 years. Chiltern District Council has refused a planning application to build a retirement home on the site.
• OVER 90% of London’s 17,365 bus stops are fully accessible, and those in Ealing, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kingston boroughs have 100% accessibility. Former mayor Boris Johnson set a target for 95% to be accessible by the end of 2016.
• A £1BILLION redevelopment of North Greenwich bus and tube station could be derailed by the Twentieth Century Society, which wants the current Norman Fosterdesigned structure to be listed.
• HOPPER fare journeys had passed 40million by early February.
