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Buy Now And Beat The New Year TFL Price Hikes

Renew your Travelcard before Sunday to beat the New Year fare increases.

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Mayor Criticised For New Year’s Eve Sponsorship Deal

Boris Johnson’s getting flak for accepting sponsorship from Wonga.com to fund free travel on New Year’s Eve.

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London Underground Plans To Re-Tunnel Bank Station

London Underground is planning to rebuild large parts of Bank, in an effort to reduce congestion on one of the Tube’s busiest stations.

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Fixed Fares For Late Night Black Cabs This Weekend

Westminster Council trials fixed rate fares to get you home in a Black Cab this weekend.

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Nature-ist Owl Alert

Feathered news, especially for the owl fanciers amongst you.

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Black Cabs To Be Electric By 2020 – Sort Of

In his latest bid to improve air quality in London, Boris Johnson has announced that all new black taxis should be electric by 2020. But how realistic is his plan?

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Tube Passengers Let Off At Closed Station

For the second time during the industrial action of recent months, passengers were mistakenly let off at Canada Water station during November’s Tube strike.

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RMT Confused Over Strike Action

To strike or not to strike? The RMT appear to be all of a dither over proposed strike action on the Northern and Bakerloo lines.

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Alternative Tube Maps: London In 2100

The charity Practical Action has hit upon an interesting way of demonstrating how a rise in ocean levels would impact on London: they’ve created an alternative Tube map which shows the areas of the capital that would be flooded.

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Climate Change Protestors Use Boris Bikes As Billboards

A group of protestors, who are calling on the Japanese to reverse their decision to oppose an extension to the Koyto treaty, have turned the Cycle Hire bikes into mobile billboards.

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Met Requests For Oyster Data At Record Levels

The number of requests from the Metropolitan Police for Oyster data have reached new highs this year, according to the Green Party