In more Black Cab related news, fares are set to go up an extra 20p to cover improvements needed to cut the amount of harmful gasses they emit. This is a part of the Mayors overall plan to reduce pollution in London, as according to …
Today’s Guardian has a piece on the so-called “Deotur From Hell”, which has been causing a bit of a headache in west London for the past fortnight. The detour, set up to circumvent roadworks, meant that motorists “trying to progress 300 metres down a busy …
Londonist came across this little story while browsing around Warren Ellis’s Die Puny Humans blog this morning. Warren pointed us in the direction of Mark Eris’ Live Journal where Mark recounts the story of a traffic accident outside his office, under the heading “It`s all …
Conversations with cabbies may soon be a thing of the past, the BBC reports, thanks to an innovation by an Australian company. TouchTaxi allows you to surf the information superhighway while stuck in traffic on London’s not-so-super highways. And it sounds like a terrible idea. …
It’s that time of year again: Spears, Andre, the hunks of Hollyoaks…they’ve all got their brand new, 2005 calendars out there in the shops. Some are official, some are unofficial…but they’re all crap. But now, thanks to “self-confessed traffic island fanatic” Kevin Beresford the London-based …
“Carrying on with our ‘the future is here’ theme for today, may we point you in the direction of this report, which examines the possibility that the skies above London will soon be filled with flying cars (or ‘jetpods’ as they’re called). The report profiles …
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