Run, Tufty, run… The Mayor needs to speed up traffic if he’s to halve the congestion zone next year without causing gridlock. His simple but controversial solution: shorten the durations at pedestrian crossings…by up to six seconds. Here’s what he told the London Assembly last …
Courtesy of Craig Grobler’s Flickrstream under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Improvement plans are afoot for Great Queen Street, so called because it was built as a private lane for James I’s Queen Anne to shortcut from Drury Lane red light district theatreland through to …
It may sound like a stage direction from Star Trek: The Musical, but plans to “rephase” London’s traffic lights have been unveiled by transport czars. In the days following his election in May, Boris Johnson demanded an improvement to traffic flow, and transport commish Peter …
Transport for London has published a report revealing that congestion in the city is as bad as it was before the introduction of the C-charge. Though 21% less traffic (amounting to 70,000 cars) enters the zone compared to 2002, a “decreasing level of road space” …
What’s the Tokyo Look, then? Simpering ads for mascara featuring hot young Japanese models batting their lids while riding the Bullet train? Middle-aged American men crooning bad karaoke to their doe-eyed young companions? Nope. The Tokyo look is inspired by that city’s Shibuya district, which …
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