Photo / cakehole Transport for London are investigating after a driverless engineering train was allowed to run for almost four miles early this morning. The train became uncoupled as it was towed along between Archway and Warren Street stations, at around 6.40am, and trundled along …
Image courtesy of prkn under a creative commons licence One-little commented side-effect of London’s cycle hire scheme has been the insight it’s given us into what TfL thinks different bits of London are actually called. Going by the names on the cycle docking stations, the …
Photo / suburbanslice TfL has confessed to what anecdotal evidence has long pointed to: namely, that thousands of people have been wrongly overcharged whilst riding Cycle Hire bikes. The exact figure remains a mystery: a spokesperson said that “a couple of thousand” of the 40,000 …
Image / zefrog The ballots are in, and it’s not good news for commuters: 76% of RMT members have voted for industrial action. Sister union the TSSA will announce its own ballot results next week, and the two groups will then plan when to hold …
Oxford Circus tube station was evacuated at 7.38 this morning after smoke was spotted coming from an air conditioning unit. The station was closed for a whole 20 minutes while firefighters investigated but happily for commuters, it reopened at 8am. (Image / Nicole Blommers)
Photo / suburbanslice It’s barely a week old, but Boris Johnson is already planning to pump millions more pounds into the cycle hire network and vastly expand the number of bikes and docking stations, reports the Standard. Despite a handful of teething troubles, the system’s …
Image by steve angelkov from the Londonist Flickr pool Today’s the last chance to offer your views on scrapping the Western Extension of the Congestion Charging Zone and changes to the payment scheme (including increasing the daily cost from £8 to £10). Plans to remove …
Photo by cloudy image Man arrested for attacking a cycle hire bike. That didn’t take long A pair of unions might be brewing up a Tube strike TfL have banned a busker from beating his banjolele Gullible Americans are being conned into believing that their …
VIP lanes look set to cause disruption for London’s motorists during the Olympics, when around 60 miles of roads will be earmarked as official routes to convey athletes, officials and the media in a speedily efficient fashion to the 2012 games. You can see the …
The first thing to note is: the cycle hire scheme works. We rocked up to a station in Shoreditch at a little after 6am this morning, inserted the key into the docking station, waited for the green light on the machine to flash, and seconds …
Some of the new trains on the Victoria line, which are being introduced this year, have been affected by technical difficulties. Only around six of the new trains are being run at peak times, but two of them were involved in significant breakdowns recently: one …
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