Did you, like Londonist, stumble bleary-eyed to your local bus/tube stop this morning only to find that the ‘correct change’ you had fished out of whatever was left of your Christmas fund just wasn’t enough? That’s because, as of Sunday, the price of a bus …
Londonist is a bit Christmas Tree obsessed this year. In the past few weeks we’ve had three tree posts. Only one of those was about the Trafalgar Square tree, but it seems we missed something: it runs on hydrogen. According to the London Asembly site …
As a bus driver in London there are many professional responsibilities one has to take on: customer relations, passenger safety, road etiquette and, erm…knowing the bus route. If a driver fails in just one of these areas then it can quickly lead to chaos, or …
Lost property is a strangely English obsession. It’s a subject which seems to tie in with those icons of British culture: the briefcase, the bowler hat and the black umbrella. Plus, lost property statistics seem to fascinate us as a nation. Weird bits of trivia …
Do you think Her Majesty has ever taken public transport in her life? We’re betting not, but that doesn’t stop her admiring such “British design classics” as the Routemaster bus and the traditional black cab. These are some of the design icons which are being …
Once every few months you can be fairly sure that a news item will be released on how much fare-dodgers are “costing” the transport system. Today the Liberal Democrats claim that nonpayers are taking 150m free trips a year. Londonist has never had much faith …
With just a week before London has to submit its offical bid for the 2012 Olympic games, Seb Coe and his team have unveiled their plans for the 500-acre Olympic Park. The main stadium, to be located in the Lea Valley, is designed to “communicate …
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