overcrowding

First Great Western carry 16.6% more peak time passengers than their trains have capacity for.

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Image by Adam NFK Smith from the Londonist Flickr pool Overcrowding on trains is set to get worse, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee. Despite promises more than three years ago to add 1,000 carriages to trains by 2014, mostly in the …

There’s not much freedom within or without for many kids living in London homes, and Boris wants to do something about it. He’s compared the situation faced by many youngsters to living in a battery farm, and has joined with homeless charity Shelter and a …

This is sad: a lawyer is found to have committed suicide over the pressures of work and motherhood. So’s this: another London baby has died of suspected abuse. The price of Olympic tickets hangs in the balance. Did Amy steal coke from Kate? And do …

A new report from the London Assembly warns train companies not to get too carried away with cutting staff and capacity. London trains already carry on average 3.5% more passengers than they should (up to 40% more at peak times), and this recession and falling …