As we warned earlier in the week, today is another bus strike Friday. This time it’s Metroline and First drivers affecting 160 bus routes mainly across north-east and west London. For a full list of routes affected visit TFL’s website. They’re striking over pay again, …
Fans of the bendy bus, be of good cheer. The voice of London’s transport users, TravelWatch, has concluded there is no case for scrapping bendy buses on some of our busiest routes after its public meeting last week. The 38, 507 and 521 bendy buses …
That’s it folks, your opportunity to design a new bus for London is over. The competition closed awhile back, but if you didn’t get round to it, never mind, for like the poor kid ever-bested by his Competitive Dad in The Fast Show, a professional’s …
One of Boris Johnson’s manifesto pledges was to remove bendy buses from the streets of London and replace them with a next-generation Routemaster – a populist promise that played well in London’s hinterlands, where the moneyed folk rarely ride public transportation. While the second half …
Ken Livingston’s vision of driving a Routemaster to Beijing as a 2012 promotional exercise may have been ditched as a total waste of time and money because of the Sichuan earthquake but the bus itself is still in line to be the star of the …
Remember Mayor Ken’s deal with Venezuela? He agreed to share expertise in areas like public transport and tourism – in return for a 20% discount on fuel bought for London’s buses, which he then used to subsidise bus fares for thousands of Londoners on Income …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 46. Misunderstood Signals Along with an unhealthy obsession with social interaction on London’s public transport (which is what Team Nice investigates), I am very superstitious. Saluting …
Operation Blunt 2 cracking down on knife crime made its first big arrest on Saturday night on the top deck of a bus in Deptford. An astonishing 24 teenagers were stopped and searched after boarding the bus en masse and police officers recovered the following …
Some Routemasters just don’t know when to retire. While Boris considers his pledge to resurrect a modernised Routemaster, the original omnibus gets an artistic outing at the London Transport Museum. The double-decker is celebrated in a photographic exhibition by Ralf Obergfell, a German-born artist with …
Space.com are showing a picture of a London red bus ensconced within European space freighter the Jules Verne. Less romantically known as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Jules Verne is due to dock with the International Space Station tomorrow. Alas, the bus is intended …
Unite lived up to its name today, presenting demands on behalf of bus drivers across the capital for a standard wage and agreement on driving hours to address considerable disparities across operators. This is their first coordinated claim since privatisation in the 80s. Drivers working …
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