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As a prelude to the introduction of one moquette to rule them all London Transport Museum hosts an evening about the history and future of its iconic seat covering fabric this week. The designers of the new textile will talk and there is a guided …

Reports are coming in that a bus has hit a woman at Piccadilly Circus, before crashing into railings badly enough to cause metal to fall into one of the tube entrances. The woman has been treated for an arm injury and taken to hospital. Two …

Photo / che-burashka Metroline, which operates buses throughout London, are launching an investigation after allegations that one of their drivers refused to allow two veiled Muslim students on his vehicle. The students, one of whom was wearing a face-covering niqab, the other a hijab (in …

Image by kenchie from the Londonist Flickr pool We know the specification, roughly what it’ll look like and who’s building it, and now the Times have come up with how much Boris’s new Routemaster buses will cost. And it works out at a massive £1.6m …

There’s a big, friendly bus full of flowers travelling round town today. If you spot it, you can get your hands on one of a thousand free bouquets of tulips. Wherefore art the bulb of munificence from which springeth such bounteous clasps of inflorescence? Well, …

Image by Doilum from the Londonist Flickr pool We’ve all fallen asleep on the night bus and ended up stuck at the end of the route (haven’t we?) but if you don’t have a home to (eventually) go to, the night bus can seem a …

Image by pixelthing from the Londonist Flickr pool Here’s a word of warning for users of bus routes along Tottenham Court Road: 2010 is not going to be fun for you. Works to strengthen or replace Victorian utility pipes before Crossrail construction really kicks off …

Bus drivers are once again on strike, affecting 58 routes through East London. Members of the Unite union will strike until 3am on Sunday. Routes through Barking, Bow, Leyton, Romford, Upton Park and West Ham are most heavily affected. The industrial action comes in protest …

You’d better start making alternative arrangements for tomorrow if you usually catch the bus; from 3am, drivers working out of Barking, Bow, Leyton, Romford, Upton Park and West Ham bus garages are walking out on a 24 hour strike to protest at the East London …

Seven teenagers between 16 and 19 have been arrested at a bus stop on Orpington High Street, for violent disorder and assault. No knives, no mugging, no robbing, sexual assault or demands for “respect” were involved; this was the scene of a bus being simply …