Editing Docklands Light Railway (section)

===Performance===
Within a year of launch, annual passenger numbers reached 17&nbsp;million,<ref name="perf" /> increasing to 64&nbsp;million in 2009,<ref name="perf">{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/dlr/1536.aspx |title=Docklands Light Railway performance |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=19 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123081840/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/dlr/1536.aspx |archive-date=23 January 2012 }}</ref><ref name="60&nbsp;million">{{Cite press release|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/4825.html |title=Docklands Light Railway carries 60&nbsp;million passengers |date=4 April 2007 |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=4 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425183407/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/4825.html |archive-date=25 April 2012 }}</ref> and more than 80&nbsp;million in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flagshipconsulting.co.uk/media-centre/client-news/dlr-now-carries-more-than-10-times-the-population-of-london-per-year/ |title=Client News - DLR now carries more than 10 times the population of London per year |publisher=Flagship Consulting |date=21 June 2012 |access-date=28 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072554/http://www.flagshipconsulting.co.uk/media-centre/client-news/dlr-now-carries-more-than-10-times-the-population-of-london-per-year/ |archive-date=7 April 2014 }}</ref> The most recent figures show 116.8&nbsp;million annual passengers in the financial year to 31 March 2020.<ref name="LRT"/> The first five years had unreliability and operational problems,<ref name='lddc history'>{{cite web |url=http://www.lddc-history.org.uk/transport/tranmon2.html#DLRResolving |title=DLR: resolving the problems |publisher=London Docklands Development Corporation |access-date=11 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426004205/http://www.lddc-history.org.uk/transport/tranmon2.html#DLRResolving |archive-date=26 April 2012 }}</ref> but the system has since become highly reliable.<ref name='lddc history'/> Research in 2008 showed 87% of the population of North Woolwich were in favour of the DLR.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcacc.org/access/north-woolwich-research-report.pdf |title=North Woolwich Research: Changes, 2006–2008&nbsp;– The influence of Docklands Light Railway |date=July 2008 |publisher=Social Research Associates |access-date=26 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220654/http://www.lcacc.org/access/north-woolwich-research-report.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref>

The Parliamentary [[Transport Select Committee]] favourably reviewed [[light rail]] in 2005,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmtran/378/37805.htm |title=Horses for Courses: The Advantages of Light Rail |publisher=UK Parliament |work=Commons Transport Select Committee |date=3 April 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728114105/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmtran/378/37805.htm |archive-date=28 July 2012 }}</ref> and due to the success of the DLR, proposals for similar systems elsewhere emerged. The [[North and West London Light Railway]] was a plan for an orbital railway serving the other side of London.<ref name="times-sept09">{{Cite news|last=Flintoff |first=John-Paul |url=http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2009/09/orbital-rail-the-solution-to-city-congestion.html |title=Orbital rail the solution to city congestion? |newspaper=The Times (Environment blog) |location=London |date=17 September 2009 |access-date=16 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925161043/http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2009/09/orbital-rail-the-solution-to-city-congestion.html |archive-date=25 September 2009 }}</ref> The DLR has been successful, as have other recent [[light rail]] systems,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature1953/|title=Light Rail&nbsp;– the Solution to Inner-City Chaos?|date=22 May 2008|website=Railway-Technology.com|access-date=19 March 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229165634/http://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature1953/|archive-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> although it was earlier criticised for having been designed with insufficient capacity to meet the demand that quickly arose.<ref name ='Chriswol'/><ref name="statement" /><ref name="history one"/>

Until 1 July 2013, the only bicycles that were allowed were folding ones.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/11701.aspx |title=Bikes on public transport |publisher=[[Transport for London]] |access-date=27 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527140218/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/11701.aspx |archive-date=27 May 2013 }}</ref> DLR stated that this is because if evacuation is required, they would slow down the process. DLR cars, especially older rolling stock, were not designed with bicycles in mind&nbsp;– if they were allowed, they might obstruct doors and emergency exits.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Valerie |last=Low |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23407230-last-one-in-the-water-is-toast.do |title=Last one in the water is toast |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=6 August 2007 |access-date=27 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081807/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23407230-last-one-in-the-water-is-toast.do |archive-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> Since January 2014, full-size bicycles have been allowed on DLR trains at off-peak hours and weekends (except Bank Station, where bicycles are not permitted for safety reasons).<ref>{{cite web |author=ibikelondon |url=http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/good-news-from-today-you-can-take-your.html |title=i b i k e l o n d o n: Good news! From today you can take your bike on the Docklands Light Railway |website=Ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk |date=18 January 2014 |access-date=17 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018224749/http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/good-news-from-today-you-can-take-your.html |archive-date=18 October 2016 }}</ref>