Transport for London has published figures showing that London Underground carried the highest number of passengers in its history during December 2011. Friday 9 December saw the highest number of daily passenger journeys ever recorded on the Tube, with 4.17m journeys made, nearly 7% higher than the corresponding day in 2010. The week ending Saturday 10 December was also a record-breaker with a new weekly high of 24.9m people using the Tube as the festive season got into full swing. The news comes on the back of the latest London Underground performance results published by TfL for the four week period from 16 October to 12 November. They show that the Tube carried 94.6m people during that period, up by more than 4m on the same period last year. LU operated 97.5% of scheduled kilometres during the period, an improvement of 1% on the previous period. Reliability, as measured by the delays caused to passengers, has also continued to improve. Other improvements delivered during...

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Source: Transport Briefing