The people who own Croydon Tramlink reckon TfL has cost them 8 million passengers over the past four years. How? TfL reduced bus fares. Tramtrack Croydon’s argument goes that since bus fares were reduced, people switched from the tram to the bus. So, whose side …
With all the predictability and regularity that they’ve never quite managed to achieve with their trains, London Underground staff have “averted” their New Year’s Eve strike by reaching a last-minute pay deal with London Transport managers. RMT general secretary Bob Vrow lived up to his …
Disastrous news for those of us you who use blank taxi receipts to give yourselves the occasional bonus, as The Evening Standard reports that Mayor Ken wants to halt blank taxi receipts. Instead, Kuddly Ken wants to install machines in every cab which will print …
An appealing headline for an appalling story appeared on This Is London: Pensioner Trapped By Hole In Road. The story relates how Londonist’s favourite London water supplier Thames Water had dug a hole outside a 78-year-old man’s front gate. The story takes a ‘half-empty’ view …
Are the people of West Ham “tedious”? That’s what Tony Banks, their MP, thinks, and he wasn’t afraid to say it to the BBC. “I found it intellectually numbing, tedious in the extreme,” he said of constituency work. “It might sound a little disparaging to …
Liverpudlians might have a reputation for moaning that the world hates them, but they can’t hold a candle to Londoners when it comes to complaining about travel. Complaints about commuting, a road block on the M1, or the possibility of a rail strike over Christmas …
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