Based on previous experience with sub-zero conditions, you might expect London’s transport network to be struggling. Yet reports suggest that most services are doing just fine, and are no more delayed than normal. Road transport is perhaps in most jeopardy, as the continued freeze causes …
Image / Photomish Dan The cold weather (including the snow that suddenly went ‘whump’ over London in the last couple of hours) is having a knock-on effect on the trains. Southeastern are running a Saturday service tomorrow; Southern are running a ‘revised’ service this evening …
Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London. This week, some Christmassy colours courtesy of a layer of snow atop some curiously red vegetation. Photo by …
Image / Photomish Dan Is it snowing? We hadn’t noticed. Well, nearly. After a sticky start this morning (all the airports had problems; at the time of writing, flights are now coming in and out but expect delays) most forms of transport seem to be …
Did you get the free lunch we told you about? Pressure mounts on beleagured Board of London Met Uni over financial fiasco Date set for scrapping Elephant and Castle’s roundabout and subways Cupcake will vie with Spurs new stadium for 2018 World Cup hosting alongside …
Watch out Christmas travellers: snow may (or may not) be on its way! In what Paul Knightley, forecaster at MeteoGroup UK, has labelled a ‘complex situation’, parts of the UK could, but probably won’t, see snow as early as this Sunday. No matter the meteorological …
Image courtesy of nuttyxander via the Londonist Flickr pool At the time we threw our hands in the air and huffed a lot, and now a report confirms that the agencies supposed to deal with bad weather in London really didn’t have a clue what …
With more snow on the way, our friend Mehrdad sends us this example of white-sky thinking to solve the transport problems: carve up underground trains to make cable cars. Check out Mehrdad’s blog, Aref-Adib, for a staggering collection of photoshops, look-alikes and other visual amusements. …
You might have been a bit miffed not to wake up to another snow Monday today but never fear because this afternoon’s forecast winter storm may well feck up your commute home so keep an eye on TfL live travel news. If the prospect of …
Genteel Muswell Hill’s probably never seen anything like it. “Hordes” of “youths” who’d gone to Ally Pally to muck about in the snow on Monday decided to pelt cars with snowballs. But some of the snowballs were so hard they apparently broke some car windows …
Image by sinister pictures Bad bookkeeping means things are looking bleak for London Metropolitan University David Walliams comes out fighting (legally) after London Lite Photoshops him into a provocative situation. Alexander Rodchenko is presumably gyrating in his grave. Low emission zone plan is scuppered because …
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