By secretlondon123 Ghoulishly, Halloween happens to mark 1,000 days until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. LOCOG are taking this as no kind of walking dead portent and Lord Coe and his team are, in fact, ebullient. Thomas Cook have signed …
Who says the banks aren’t lending? Today, the Mayor announced a £1 billion loan from the European Investment Bank to Transport for London. The fiscal fillip represents 40% of TfL’s projected contribution to the Crossrail project, which will link Berkshire and Essex via a Central …
Plans for the Tate Modern extension, by Herzog & de Meuron Damn you, recession! Not content with rising unemployment, enormous public debt and letting the bankers get away with it, now you want to take away our fabulous museum extensions as well? You won’t be …
Canary Wharf Crossrail station Could the Crossrail toothpaste yet be squeezed back into the tube? Despite the signing of the Royal Assent, despite the work already underway at various locations, despite even the tunnelling academy, the financial concerns that have plagued Crossrail throughout have not …
Image by gary8345 from the Londonist Flickr pool Well, not quite. TfL is expected to announce it’s worked out how to save £2.5bn to meet the funding gap left by Metronet’s demise. In addition to the 1,000 redundancies that brought the RMT out on strike, …
Take your last look at Shoreditch: zone 2 / image by diamond geezer under a Creative Commons licence A couple of bits of transport news filtered out of south-east London in the last week or so: the proposed Victoria-Bellingham service has been scrapped in the …
Image: microabi And that makes us very happy indeed. We fall deeper in love with the Lavender Hill venue each time we visit. Whether it’s the magic of Don John or the immersive theatre of Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Death, BAC never ceases to …
Photo by Fin Fahey Fed up with standing up for a hour while squashed into someone’s armpit and half a broadsheet covering your book? Help could be on its way with Network Rail’s promise of £35bn improvement package. ‘Britain is poised on the brink of …
Image courtesy of Simon Crubellier from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheesh, no wonder Tim O’Toole quit… a London Assembly report confirms what we’ve known for a while: there’s a whopping great hole in the funding for tube upgrade work. How big a hole depends on …
Up to 500 jobs are at risk and courses could be cut at London Metropolitan University. The university has been underestimating the number of students who drop out to such an extent that it’s had £38m in funding it wasn’t entitled to since 2005. Now …
While lesser politicians find themselves embroiled in the mundane tracasseries of campaign funding, our Mayor takes a more creative tact. Twenty artists, including Banksy, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn, are selling their work to raise money for Livingstone’s re-election. The ‘Bid For Ken’ auction takes …
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