We speak to customer director of Transport for London and busker Juliana Lisk.
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00:00Transport for London is 25 years old and this year plans are underway to celebrate a quarter of a century transporting Londoners across the capital.
00:11This week buskers were singing at Liverpool Street Station as celebrations kicked off.
00:16I spoke to Emma Swain, customer director of TfL, to find out how the first 25 years have gone and the plans for the future and I also spoke to a very talented underground singer.
00:28So we're here today to start the beginning of a whole year of celebrations of TfL's 25th anniversary.
00:33So it's 25 years since TfL came together as one organisation covering all the different modes of transport. That's why we're here.
00:39I mean there's been amazing achievements through that time period.
00:42The big ones always jump out, the Elizabeth Line, more recently the Superloop, the Olympic Games.
00:48We have expanded the system from a transport perspective.
00:53We've improved bus services. If you think about our roads as well, we've brought in Division Zero, which is about ensuring safety on our road network.
01:01So it's been a huge amount of activity over the last 25 years and of course looking forward to many, many more years to come.
01:07We're really positive. So as well as the buskers that you've seen here today, we've issued the first six of a new series of posters.
01:14And they celebrate some of the achievements that we've made over the last 25 years.
01:18So perhaps later on when you're travelling around the network, you'll see a beautiful Dalmatian celebrating the Northern Line extension.
01:25You'll see celebrations of the Olympics or maybe on board badges and just a number of many things big and small that we've done over the last 25 years.
01:35So those posters will come out throughout the year.
01:37And we've introduced a new silver roundel today as well, which you will see, I'm sure, throughout the year.
01:42Yeah, I mean, as you say, the Tube is such an integral part of London city life.
01:48And I love that you get to see a variety of people, whether it's kind of business folk or, you know, you get to see a great mix of tourists as well.
01:56And the nice thing about busking in London, too, is that when there's an event on or when there's a protest on or whatever the vibe is in the city, you kind of get a little bit of that as well.
02:06Like when you're busking, it's a nice story for you.
02:09So I was at Green Park and we'd made the, oh, I think it was the Euros.
02:16Was it the Euros? My lack of football knowledge is showing now.
02:20But we got to the finals and we just fell short.
02:25And somebody came and put a statue, like a cardboard cutout of Gareth Southgate next to me while I busked.
02:32So everybody waved at Gareth and said thank you.
02:35Thank you, Gareth, for all your efforts while I was busking.
02:37So stuff like that, you get to have fun, fun things like that.