Image / routemaster_fan The threat of Tube strikes over Christmas grew today after another union said it would ballot members over industrial action. Members of Aslef are unhappy about new timetables on the Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, which they say require drivers to …
Image / zefrog Not usually known for his sunny disposition, it’s of little surprise that RMT leader Bob Crow has reacted furiously to the notion that Tube bosses might head out on jaunts to the US to lend their expertise to the New York subway. …
Image / gary8345 TfL are selling the new DLR station at South Quay, which opened this morning, as a sleight of hand worthy of Derren Brown at his best: “without any disruption to passengers”, according to a press release, engineers “effectively moved a station” over …
Did he walk or was he pushed (under a train)? Ranting platform attendant Ian Morbin has resigned from his role on the London Underground for ‘personal reasons’ after being filmed yelling at a passenger. The pony-tailed, ‘easy-going Jedi’, turned latter-day Basil Fawlty achieved internet notoriety …
Image by Piers Fawkes After a brief detente, which saw Boris feted in New York, Mayor Bloomberg big up the City, shop-swapping, and the odd art project diversion, the Big Smoke and the Big Apple are now vying once again for cultural and financial dominance. …
By Mike King The Mayor today announced the 2010 fare package for TfL with inevitable, but unwelcome, above inflation fare rises. Not much of a surprise. We saw it coming but it still bites. Overall bus fares rise by 12.7% and tube fares by 3.9%. …
A gold star to the Telegraph for spotting the schoolboy errors in Transport for London’s new cycle-hire map. As you can see, the labels for the Natural History Museum and V&A have been transposed, Exhibition Road has vanished and the Royal Albert Hall and Memorial …
Is it just the cooler weather, or are Evening Standard readers normally this cold-hearted? The story of 41-year old Claphamite Lee Roberts, who nearly came a cropper when his bag got caught in the doors of a Northern line train at Clapham North, has received …
By Jason Webber via the Londonist Flickrpool Road safety research on behalf of TfL suggests two thirds of pedestrians don’t know how to cross the road properly. At first we rolled our eyes but it turns out you can stick us in that uninformed bracket. …
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