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Today TFL launch their latest spurious health promotion/congestion tackling campaign “Why not walk it” urging London motorists to leave the car at home and take Shanks’ pony to their destination. Londonist sees straight through this ruse. We all know that motorists just won’t. It’s well …

See comments for major corrections to this post. Another Banksy bites the dust. Some nobber at TfL decided to paint over the famous Pulp Fiction image in which Jackson and Travolta clutch bananas in place of guns. The work near Old Street tube had been …

This week, we’ve noticed that London’s media seems to be diversifying into sundry formats. And not only that – the different organs are all bitching about one another. Time for us to wade in… The Times launched a snazzy local web presence last week called …

Public consultation time, folks. Oh, come on, stop yawning. What do you mean ‘It’s Monday morning’? It’s good to have a say in things, isn’t it? Well, if you have an opinion about the proposed Cross-river tram route, now’s your chance to interject. TfL will …

We always figured that cabbies had hidden depths. They have such a deep understanding of any subject that they are never shy at coming forward with an opinion on the world’s ills. Plus a few years back an Ig Nobel prize was awarded to research …

The final bill for the Forest Gate ‘anti-terror’ raid came to more than £2 million, we’ve been told today. South West Trains is planning to strip seats out of trains on the most overcrowded routes from London to Surrey and Hampshire in order to ‘reduce …

Oh, and it was all going so well… A few weeks ago we reported on the fact that the Waterloo & City line was back up and running after a five month shutdown for a complete refurb. We were actually quite pleased that the work …

It’s been a while since our last Hacking London column so we thought we’d fill the gap with a quick but tasty morsel of techy goodness, and believe it or not this particular slice of goodness comes courtesy of Transport for London. Yes, that Transport …

Time to invest in glazing firms. The London Bridge Tower…or Shard of Glass…or Southwark Stalagmite, has apparently secured all the financial goodness a growing tower could need. A merry ensemble of pecuniary playfellows (well, OK, one or two banks) have clubbed together to secure the …

Ooo, our eyes are starting to glaze over. It must be the seemingly monthly news that Tube and bus fares are to go up again. On the definitive list of things inevitable, transport price hikes can now join death, taxes, and daily Diana exclusives in …