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Cartoon by David Le Fleming Ever wondered how much Boris Johnson gets paid for his weekly Telegraph column? At £250,000 per year, it makes him more valuable as a writer than as a mayor. In a bluster of somewhat defensive-sounding self-justification, Boris describes his Telegraph …

London Bridge, the birthday bridge by wallyg via the Londonist Flickrpool Mere months after the kibosh was put on more bridges, a Transport for London study has highlighted the need for more river crossings in the east. Two, to be precise. You can read the …

By Ronald Hackston via the Londonist Flickrpool Westminster Council have been forced to switch off their traffic cameras over a Department of Transport ruling on pixellation. The big switch off will happen on 3 August and last approximately three weeks while the wireless network is …

Photo by ‘stpiduko’ More and more Londoners are taking to scooters in an attempt to beat the congestion charge and crowded public transport, according to Motorcycle News. Upsides? Loads. They’re economical to run and insure, easy to ride, c-charge exempt, you can park for nothing …

Or 4320 minutes in London as a three-day strike over jobs and pay starts today. It’s all over privatisation again, but this time the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are accusing managers of ‘sulking’. We expect Royal Mail managers to retaliate by giving them a Chinese …

Image by Homemade in the Londonist Flickr pool. Buy 1080 (and a half) Teslas. Or nearly 59 million single Zone 1 fares. Or even taxi fares for Boris Johnson for the next 23,500 years. According to Transport for London, £94.4m is the total figure racked …

By SallyB2 Having a glass of wine with your picnic could become a thing of the past as Lambeth Council join Camden in proposing a borough-wide Controlled Drinking Zone (CDZ). ‘Controlled’ appears to be something of a misnomer though; ‘ban’; seems to be what is …

By Mario Mitsis No, we’re not in some parallel public transport universe. It’s the high-speed javelin train from Ashford which took 36 minutes to arrive in St Pancras – one whole minute early. While the rest of us are jammed, sweaty and irritable into lesser …

By CTF via the Londonist Flickrpool The eco car industry received a boost yesterday as a £25m plan to trial electric cars in cities across the UK was announced. 340 cars will be available in eight cities with different brands assigned to each area and …

Plans to inflict mobile coverage onto the tube network, which have been resurrected more times than Peter Andre’s career, appear to be enjoying a new outing, this time using the excuse of the 2012 Olympics. Although TfL, who shelved plans back in March, say they …