Buses are hip: bus stop tops are hot, people are having babies on the backseats and they are not tube travel with its perilous chance encounters with irate Jedi assistants. Boris Johnson wants 400 apprenticeships for bus drivers each year so that drivers can expand …
Unto the number 394 single deck bus in Hackney, a boy has been born! We can imagine the duo behind Bus-Tops having a lot of fun with this… Mother of three Emiloju Fatima Lawal went into labour with her fourth child on Tuesday this week, …
Image of a maligned bendy by steve_w from the Londonist Flickr pool Boris Johnson spent time defending his transport strategy at the London Assembly
Parked in UCL’s main quad on Gower Street, an old school double-decker bus houses Object Retrieval, a new interdisciplinary art project by Joshua Sofaer. A single item from the university’s Museums and Collections is being exhibited in hopes of attracting the insight of experts from …
The Currant Bun (and a bunch of other places too) brings us the cautionary tale of bus versus Porsche. Emma Freeman parked her car at a Barnes bus stop (naughty) while she nipped out to use a cashpoint… only for a 283 to pull out, …
Want a nifty route through town by bus? Forget journey planner, you need a hotline to 4 year old Ishaan from Lewisham. At an age when most of us have just managed to master ‘The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round’, Ishaan has …
Photo by historicist from the Londonist flickr photopool. Only a week after “debendyficiation” of the streets of the capital started on route 507, and as passengers of said route are already asking for the bendies back, the Bus Service Review (pdf), by accountancy firm KPMG …
We like to keep track of bus couture in London: godlessness, bendiness, newness. But what about the bus stops? What about the tops of bus stops? Alfie Dennen, the man behind Moblog and various geo-cyber-virtual-socially networked things like geoglyphs and real world fun with Google …
Can’t make it to tonight’s film quiz at the Roxy? Never fear, we have our very own compilation of filmic facting for you to ponder. This time round, the focus is on the the London red bus. See how many of these you can get, …
Image by lindseymclarke 25 year-old Pawel Modzelewski died on the 36 bus in January this year; his body was undisturbed for at least six hours as he lay in the garage overnight then set off on the next morning’s journey. While there’s an On the …
A gadget that can stop you speeding is being trialled in 20 TfL vehicles, including a bus and a taxi. Intelligent Speed Adaptation knows where you are and what the local speed limit is; in override mode it stops you accelerating beyond the limit. (In …
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