{"id":648,"date":"2015-01-17T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=648"},"modified":"2015-01-26T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:16:44","slug":"better-answers-wanted-from-southeastern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Better Answers Wanted from Southeastern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/southeastern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/southeastern.jpg\" alt=\"southeastern\" width=\"201\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon\u00a0met Southeastern Chief Executive David Statham on Friday (16<sup>th<\/sup>) to review the first days of timetable changes at London Bridge and to register his constituents\u2019 dissatisfaction with the current services.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting Mr Fallon said: \u00a0\u201cSevenoaks commuters have too few options.\u00a0 The current tube and bus concessions should be extended to other stations, including Victoria and Bank.\u00a0 I am pressing TfL to look again at the potential numbers at each station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still too much confusing information.\u00a0 Apps, websites and station indicators are all reporting slightly different service information.\u00a0 I want Southeastern to speed up a single version of the truth so that all passengers have the same information at the same time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-663\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Southeastern-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Southeastern-014-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"London Bridge Station\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Southeastern-014-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Southeastern-014-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Southeastern-014-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Bridge Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDavid Statham will be travelling in from Sevenoaks early one morning this coming week, and I will be at London Bridge on Tuesday evening to see for myself if the peak hour crowd handling has improved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have pressed Southeastern on compensation. The length of the London Bridge works and the uncertainty about the actual effect on journey times as the works move into the next phases, justify a discount for season ticket holders.\u00a0 I also believe that there is a strong case for reducing the compensation threshold to 20 minute delays, at least for the period of the rebuild, and I have asked Southeastern to cost this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally I have asked Southeastern to be ready to make minor changes as necessary, for example to train lengths, without waiting for the next formal timetable reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon\u00a0met Southeastern Chief Executive David Statham on Friday (16th) to review the first days of timetable changes at London Bridge and to register his constituents\u2019 dissatisfaction with the current services. After the meeting Mr Fallon said: \u00a0\u201cSevenoaks commuters have too few options.\u00a0 The current tube and bus concessions should be extended to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better Answers Wanted from Southeastern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[95,90,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}