Run, Tufty, run… The Mayor needs to speed up traffic if he’s to halve the congestion zone next year without causing gridlock. His simple but controversial solution: shorten the durations at pedestrian crossings…by up to six seconds. Here’s what he told the London Assembly last …
Hang on, that looks like a bit of street clutter. Burn it. Burn it all. A scheme to part-pedestrianise Exhibition Road will now begin thanks to a £10 million cash injection from TfL. Foot-bound tourists get the opportunity to saunter annoyingly across a cobbled pedestrian …
To avoid athletes missing events because they’re stuck in the Blackwall Tunnel, the ODA have unveiled plans for a designated road network. Certain lanes will be dedicated to Olympic traffic so 55,000 competitors and officials can move around quickly. We think it’s a good idea …
It may sound like a stage direction from Star Trek: The Musical, but plans to “rephase” London’s traffic lights have been unveiled by transport czars. In the days following his election in May, Boris Johnson demanded an improvement to traffic flow, and transport commish Peter …
While west London motorists may soon be free of the congestion charge, those in the east could be suffering: Tower Hamlets is considering introducing its own scheme across the borough. The council is examining ways of reducing congestion in light of what it calls “huge …
We’ve told you about Westminster’s recent shifts in attitude towards parking enforcement, and now it looks like they’re attempting to change how traffic wardens operate. A new plan to have traffic wardens issue fewer tickets and give more drivers a chance to move their motors …
Transport for London has published a report revealing that congestion in the city is as bad as it was before the introduction of the C-charge. Though 21% less traffic (amounting to 70,000 cars) enters the zone compared to 2002, a “decreasing level of road space” …
Plans for a pedestrianised Parliament Square piazza (a tautology, surely?) have been scotched by City Hall. Mayor Boz has decided to review an £18m plan minted by his predecessor to “do a Traf Square” on the area, paving the southern bit beside Westminster Abbey and …
What’s the Tokyo Look, then? Simpering ads for mascara featuring hot young Japanese models batting their lids while riding the Bullet train? Middle-aged American men crooning bad karaoke to their doe-eyed young companions? Nope. The Tokyo look is inspired by that city’s Shibuya district, which …
Google is out and about capturing London for the latest addition to its Street View service. These 360 degree panoramic views are already available in most major US cities, but now Google is capturing everyone and everything on the streets of London. If your’re planning …
A slice of sponge cake and a hearty round of “Happy Birthday” to the Rotherhithe Tunnel! Not the nearby Brunel-designed Thames Tunnel, (the world’s first underwater tunnel, lest we forget) but its quieter, lesser-celebrated neighbour that ferries road traffic underneath the Thames from Southwark to …
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