It’s been a staple for science fiction movies for sometime that when cars become fully automated some wise arse always wants to turn the auto pilot off and show the machine what a real driver can do – this is usually caused by the potential …
Anyone who commutes into London via Liverpool Street knows the situation. You take the Circle via Tower Hill, to get off at Liverpool Street. But when the train gets to Aldgate, it often stops for up to 10 minutes, due to the sheer number of …
The Met freed 19 Malaysian women, suspected victims of sex trafficking, in dawn raids on five premises yesterday. Thirteen of the women were found in a six-bedroom house near Hyde Park. An eleven-year-old girl has given birth to a baby boy at Hillingdon Hospital, in …
After the Evening Standard’s successful campaign (beware of link, several facts wrong, naturally) to reduce the size of a preposterous Holborn box junction, TfL have moved matters indoors. The blighters have now started painting box junctions on station platforms, as these Piccadilly Line markings testify. …
The Register have have been talking to Clara.net’s managing director regarding the ongoing dispute between Transport for London and Tube blogger Geoff Marshall. Last week we reported on the fact that, as Geoff’s ISP, Clara had asked Marshall to remove the page of links to …
Last week we followed the second installment of the mysterious red line, reported on the continuing adventures of the ‘Yellow Stripes‘ in London and kept an eye on Geofftech’s battle with the spoilsports at TfL. We also discovered that people keep rubbing Winston Churchill’s feet …
With all this talk of tube maps recently it reminded us the excellent interactive underground map over at Brail.org. Then we couldn’t remember whether we’d posted it before or not so we had a quick look through the archives and it looks like we didn’t. …
We thought we better update you with what’s going on with Transport for London and their rather ridiculous campaign against Tube blogger Geoff Marshall. If you remember, we told you over the weekend that TfL had ‘demanded’ that Geoff take down the collection of parody …
Just a quick note to say that if you’ve enjoyed all those hilarious versions of the Tube map that’ve appeared lately, you might want to visit this site quick. Like, before Monday. Geofftech has been hosting useful, comical and down-right surreal variants on the famous …
When Oyster cards were first introduced there was an initial, not unsurprising, concern over privacy issues. Some people just didn’t want their every movement logged by London Transport, even if it meant slightly cheaper journeys. In recent days however those fears have taken on a …
Novelty variants of the Tube map. We love ‘em. It all started over a decade ago, with the famous Great Bear, which now hangs in Tate Britain. Ever since, a growing number of latter-day Tube revisionists have been photoshopping the network. The past few weeks …
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