Londonist towers got extra recycling bags and helpful advice from the council through the door this week encouraging extra recycling over this most consumptive of holidays. The Mayor is also giving recycling a push, saying it’s a “cracking time to prove your eco-credentials” and get …
Photo / Greything A website backed by the Mayor and the London Assembly, showing the average cost of renting a property across the city, has been launched. Via a pleasingly simple interface — no preponderance of drop down menus and radio buttons here, just bash …
Image by edscoble from the Londonist Flickr pool The RMT are claiming LUL have plans to close ticket offices at 144 tube stations by April 2010, presumably in an attempt to find the £5bn savings they need. Under the proposals, only main terminals would keep …
Hear that gunshot-like sound? It was Ken Livingstone firing the premature opening salvo of what he hopes will be a 2012 head-to-head between himself and Boris Johnson for City Hall. In an interview with Building Design magazine, Livingstone lays into his successor’s record on architecture …
Image by *version-3-point-1 from the Londonist Flickr pool Councils are going to be hit hard by a government plan to halve Freedom Pass funding. An agreement made in 2008 was supposed to guarantee £58m for London’s pensioner travel in 2010/11, but Transport Minister Sadiq Khan …
It’s 66/1 at William Hill, apparently. The ‘comeback king’ of British politics certainly has the force of personality that the role demands. But would voters trust him? And might the most ambitious man in politics consider the role beneath him? We’ll leave it for the …
By Mike King The Mayor today announced the 2010 fare package for TfL with inevitable, but unwelcome, above inflation fare rises. Not much of a surprise. We saw it coming but it still bites. Overall bus fares rise by 12.7% and tube fares by 3.9%. …
Christmas has come early for London’s crowd of map-spotters: not before time, Boris has published his Transport Strategy. The tabloids are already all over plans for a road-pricing scheme which would mean it could cost as much as £20 to drive into central London, but …
Despite being “surprised and saddened” on being charged with fraud a month ago, former Deputy Mayor Ian Clement coughed to misusing his corporate credit card yesterday. Instead of lunching council leaders, Clement had in fact been taking out his girlfriend and a PR executive. After …
The Campaign for Clean Air in London is claiming there’s a cover up going on over a spat between Boris Johnson and the government about the capital’s air pollution. There’s been a series of meetings between the two, but freedom of information requests to discover …
Following Clement’s June resignation over dodgy expenses (to recap: lunches with people who say they weren’t there, a sound system and flight upgrades), he’s now been charged with five counts of fraud over those lunches. Oops. Clement is “surprised and saddened” that the CPS chose …
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