Transport anarchy is threatening to break out in W12. TfL's plan to close Shepherd's Bush station on the Central Line in early February for escalator upgrade work has been met with a stentorian campaign by locals to keep it open. The protesters claim that the work - to fix up the station in anticipation of the hordes of shoppers flooding to the £1.6 billion Westfield complex, scheduled to open later this year - is......

Erm, police agents lose the security codes for 73 of their stations. Dolts. The Royal Marsden re-opens for business. Troopers. Paddick is Elton’s candidate of choice. Sweeties. The East London Line is on schedule to be on schedule. Can’t call them liars, so let’s settle for optimists. Beckham honoured for being Beckham. Top man. It’s-that-time-of-year piccie courtesy of shadow of my future self’s flickr photo stream.......

Above-inflation fare rises and teeming queues at the ticket machine as people flock to renew their passes; January 2nd is traditionally not the best day for the rail industry. TfL may be harking about a single fare freeze (whilst downplaying the Travelcard fare increase), but for Londoners today the news in general is less good: two of the capitals busiest transport hubs are closed. Liverpool Street station, shut since December 23rd while engineers were......

Heads up people: the East London Line closes this Saturday. It will undergo a magical transformation that will take rather a long time but the line will reemerge from a 3 year chrysalis as a beautiful section of the newly tangerine London Overground network, linking the North and East London railways. You'll eventually be able to travel from Richmond in the West all the way round in a massive arterial horseshoe via the existing......

Londonist was rapped on the nose the other week for cocking a snooty snook at the unending, Tube-clogging newspaper coverage of the travails of Ms. Winehouse, while - yes - covering the story ourselves. Cowed and humbled, we bring you the latest from Chez Amy without any further editorial pawmarks. With her hubby incarcerated and her private life a whorl of drug-taking and rumours of ill health, Amy has wisely decided a change of......

The 2012 Olympic Games may seem a long way off, but the pressure is starting to mount on the proposed developments for East London. In addition to building a shiny new stadium, the Olympics is meant to be an opportunity to provide more jobs, improved transport, and 9,000 new homes (of which half will be low-cost). While the Overground is now servicing Stratford and due to hook up to the East London Line in......

Huge clouds of smoke can be seen over Bow, east London, visible from as far as Queen's Park. A disused warehouse on Waterden Road has caught fire and according to the news emerging right now, there are 15 fire engines and between 40 and 75 firefighters attending it. Waterden Road passes through the Olympic site and as you can imagine, people are anxious but remaining calm. The smoke cloud is drifting southwards towards Canary......

London Overground (LO) begins operations today. The new service takes over where Silverlink left off (we'll leave you to decide which particular circle of Hell that is). The stations and trains are now owned by Transport for London, with services operated by London Overground Rail Operations Limited. Practically speaking, this translates as follows: - Oyster cards now work on the benighted routes. - The Tube map has a new look. - All stations staffed......

This Sunday TfL take over the North London Line. Yes, the service also known as the loony line and infamous for fare dodging and criminal activity on unmanned stations is getting a rebrand. Goodbye (good riddance) Silverlink! Hello London Overground. The long neglected, feared and cursed service that links Stratford with North London and pootles all the way around the West to Richmond is being brought into the TfL fold. It's even getting coloured......

The fourth in our series of interviews with potential candidates for next year's Mayoral election. Previously: Victoria Borwick (Tory), Andrew Boff (Tory) and Warwick Lightfoot (Tory). Sian Berry is the Green's candidate for next year's elections. Unlike the Tory rivals we've previously interviewed, she is a strong supporter of the congestion charge. She's the only person we've ever known to use the words 'The North London Line is good'. And she's also got a......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 13th August 1977: Hundreds of protesters clash with police at a National Front march in Lewisham, south-east London. About 400 Socialist Worker Party members had gathered to try to prevent the National Front march, but had been prevented by police, leading to attacks on the police themselves and over 200 arrests. Tuesday – 14th August 1821: The funeral procession of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, makes......

London is well accustomed to the old North/South debate. In times fortunately gone by, the question of on which side of the river you resided was up with whether you eat peas off your knife in terms of social significance. It seems however that recently there is something of an East/West issue as well. According to our man at Wandsworth town hall, those spoiled westerners of Acton and beyond have been offered a viable......

Anyone with a casual interest in London’s street art could do worse than a visit to Sclater Street. This short road in Shoreditch connects the northern end of Brick Lane to Bethnal Green Road. Virtually every surface is covered with high-quality murals, from a range of artists. You can even find sculpture. But catch it while you can. The viaduct visible in some of these images will form part of the East London Line......

Off to see Timberlake at the new-look Dome tonight? Make sure you don’t get the wrong venue. The Greenwich attraction isn’t the only O2 in town… The O2, Greenwich Peninsula Function: Entertainment venue, including stadium, 11-screen cinema and exhibition space. Includes Justin Timberlake. Age: 7.5 years. Opened at the end of 1999 as the Millennium Dome, now recalled to life as the O2. Capacity: 20,000 in the main arena. Size: 365 m diameter and the......

While we're on the subject of street art, we were disappointed to see an old friend apparently about to get demolished. The space invader of King John Court, Shoreditch, is perhaps the most photographed example from the whole fleet. Sadly, the section of viaduct to which it is affixed is in the process of being bulldozed. The Kingsland Viaduct is being partially rebuilt, partially refurbished, so it can carry the East London Line's northern......

So, as most of us know by now, there was transport 'chaos' this morning. Not least on the tube – according to the TFL Realtime Travel News page 10 out of the 12 lines on the underground network were knackered at 9am today. Credit to London Underground though. They could have used this morning’s light dusting of snow as a predictably lazy excuse for all of the problems, but they’ve risen above that. Instead......

Hands up if you’re a fan of the Circle Line. What, no one? Well, that’s a pity because London looks set to get a new, improved, bigger and possibly better circular railroad. Yesterday, Ken announced his intentions to link souped-up versions of the North London Line (AKA Silverlink, Freerail, Nutterlink) and the East London Line. There will then be options to link up to existing routes through south London to complete what would effectively......

Sweat sweat sweat. Is anyone doing anything else on the tube at the moment? Furthermore, does anyone have any good tips as to how to kill the person who has just shut the window in your carriage because the wind is mucking up her hair? Despite the heat slowing the underground down considerably over the weekend, there are a couple of important tube notices that you should probably be aware of. First up and......

With the London Line a distant memory save for a few battered bins now collecting McDonalds wrappers there's still room for a real alternative to that vile sack of swine swill, The Evening Standard. Let's hope then that the about to be launched Penny can finally give us a decent publication in the vein of New York's Village Voice and San Francisco's double whammy of free weeklies. Jemima over at journalism.co.uk has an interesting......

About 35 stations have closed due to the tube strike which is due to go on until 6:30 tonight.The worst hit line is the Northern Line. And talking of trains, four companies have each submitted £100m bids to supply trains for the East London Line extension. TfL will pick a winner next week. On Saturday a mugging was stopped in east London by friends of Jean Charles de Menezes who'd gathered at St Anne's Church......

While we’re on the theme of close liaisons on the Underground, we should probably mention a story from the Beeb that suggests things are going to get a whole lot closer. A new study concludes that our already-bulging Tube and train carriages will have to accommodate a 24% increase in commuter journeys over the next decade. Gadzooks! Fortunately, the transport authorities have a shed-full of plans for improving the network. We thought it was......

In order to walk the walk as well as talk the talk, Londonist took its own advice and spent much of the hottest June day since 1976 standing in a tunnel in Rotherhithe. The tunnel in question is of course Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the earliest stretch of Tube tunnel and the first tunnel to pass under a river. As part of Architecture Week, guided tours are being taken through part of this international engineering......

Hurray! It looks like the evil coven publishing company behind Daily Mail and the Metro are having second thoughts about bidding for the London afternoon freesheet. According to the rumours DMGT (Daily Mail & General Trust) are 'cooling' on the idea of an afternoon giveaway newspaper that would rival the Evening Standard, warning other potential bidders that it would be a "tough process" At the moment the Metro pays about £1m a year for......

If you're still at work and you're planning to get home via the tube then you might want to rethink (as of 6:30 this evening): There are 'severe delays' on most of the major lines this evening due to a power outage: The East London Line has no service in both directions and the following lines are badly delayed: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Piccadilly Line and Metropolitan. The following stations have been closed due to......

In a reversal of the usual pessimist's view that the sun only shines once you're back at work, this weekend was full of sunsheeeeine but the view from the tiny little air hole provided for us in Londonist Dungeons shows a distinctly gloomy Monday. It's particularly fortunate because Londonist spent the weekend chasing the sun around our postage stamp garden like a cat and any continuation of the good weeather would have kept us out......

It looks like the Guardian Newspapers group might be about to wade in to the free London paper market, if recent reports are anything to go by. Apparently the group has "registered its interest in bidding for the upcoming London Underground distribution contract" but this does not necessarily mean they will bid for the spot...which we guess makes them 'media window shoppers'. If they do decide to launch something they will be going up......

Well it really does seem to be 'Free London papers day' today. First of all there's all the London Line news (did we mention what a great alternative paper that is yet?). Then there's the announcement by the Office of Fair Trading confirming that Associated Newspapers, has agreed to give up its exclusive rights to the afternoon and evening 'tube slots'. And now Ken has said that he wants to go one step further......

In our new role as London Line contributors, we are in a position to let you know about the new paper's photographic competition. Basically, each week the Line will be asking Londoners to send in their photographs of the city and the best one will then be featured on the back page of the following issue. As we know a lot of London-based photographers read Londonist (just look at the success and quality of......

Londonist is very proud to announce that, as of next week, a little bit of our humble online presence will be transferred on to the tough streets of the capital. On 14 April the new, independent paper for London, the London Line, will hit the presses and Londonist is very happy to be involved. We covered the news that the London Line was on it way back in early March, but in case you've......

Moving seamlessly on from the tube adverts post below, here's some more ads-based news, this time involving the continuously ill-fated Standard Lite. You see, advertisers who pay to go into the proper, grown up, Evening Standard have never had to pay to be included in the Standard Lite...until now. As reported today the Standard wants to introduce charging for Lite advertising next month. The Brand republic article is interesting though because it offers a......