parking

One of London’s modern icons celebrates its tenth birthday.

Thursday’s round up features some newly employed hawks, and some very shiny eggs.

Traffic wardens appear to be resorting to ever-increasing measures of ingenuity to zap the unwary. Yesterday, a disabled woman in Wimbledon who found her parking space blocked by a car belonging to traffic wardens had her car ticketed by the very same wardens, while over …

Beleaguered high-street retailers fear that a new proposal from Transport for London to charge motorists for parking in red route loading bays may herald the end for many small businesses. These routes forbid any stopping or parking, except where an exemption – introduced to meet …

Photo / Simon-K Following the official announcement of his tilt at the Labour mayoral candidacy, Ken Livingstone has begun the lengthy process of trying to win over one part of the electorate that never really jived with his public transport-loving ways: motorists. The man often …

The back of an envelope, yesterday. You can tell it’s going to be one of those stories right away. The article (in the Telegraph, who should know better) starts with the tell-tale ‘UK boffins…’. Sigh. This time round, said boffins come from Royal Holloway College, …

Worker sueing because Tate Modern is too cold. Probably psychosomatic after all those white cubes what used to be there. The Big Cat of Crystal Palace. Trocodero to become 500 room pod hotel. Number of issued parking tickets drops. Man dies while pushing woman through …

Wheelchair users and those dependent on car travel are paying double last week’s rates for parking at Wembley stadium. Wembley London Ltd manage the stadium’s car parks and this week prices have gone from £12.00 to £26.50 for a short stay. Disability charity Radar has …

By Ronald Hackston via the Londonist Flickrpool Westminster Council have been forced to switch off their traffic cameras over a Department of Transport ruling on pixellation. The big switch off will happen on 3 August and last approximately three weeks while the wireless network is …

By AndyRamdin | Ducked.nl under the Creative Commons Attribution licence As the “Stand and Deliver” report recommendations for a strategy on cycle parking is considered by the London Assembly a chic glass warehouse bike parking facility is proposed for Paddington Station. CyclePoint would combine secure …