{"id":8975,"date":"2012-07-13T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2012-07-13T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:00:33","slug":"victoria-line-completely-closed-yet-again-this-saturday-14th-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/victoria-line-completely-closed-yet-again-this-saturday-14th-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Line completely closed yet again this Saturday (14th July 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brixton<\/p>\n

Back in March 2012, London Transport was telling us<\/a> that the weekend shutdown on the \u00a06th and 7th of \u00a0May would mark the very last of a long series of weekend tube closures on the Victoria Line.<\/p>\n

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Well, that’s turned out to be a right load of bollocks, because the line is going to be closed yet again this Saturday, with slooow replacement buses running the route instead.<\/p>\n

LT say<\/a>\u00a0that this will be the absolute,\u00a0definite,\u00a0no-kidding-honest-guv’nor<\/em>\u00a0last full closure of the Victoria line, with its engineers using the closure to “make the final tweaks to our new, upgraded signalling system.”<\/p>\n

It’s bad news for the Urban Art Fair<\/a> in Josephine Avenue,\u00a0Brixton, who seem to get hit with these closures every year, but you can at least work out alternative means to get into Brixton with TfL’s Journey Planner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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