London Underground's PPP scheme ends

摘要

London Underground's private-public partnership (PPP) plan came to an end on June 28 when Transport for London (TfL) acquired maintenance firm Tube Lines. TfL said the agreement to buy Tube Lines' shares from its shareholders had beenrnconcluded, and that Tube Lines is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of TfL.rnTube Lines was one of the two private maintenance companies responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Underground under a 30-year PPP introduced in 2003.