transport for london

Photo by historicist from the Londonist flickr photopool. Only a week after “debendyficiation” of the streets of the capital started on route 507, and as passengers of said route are already asking for the bendies back, the Bus Service Review (pdf), by accountancy firm KPMG …

Image by Homemade in the Londonist Flickr pool. Buy 1080 (and a half) Teslas. Or nearly 59 million single Zone 1 fares. Or even taxi fares for Boris Johnson for the next 23,500 years. According to Transport for London, £94.4m is the total figure racked …

At 08.30 this morning TfL issued a winter weather travel advisory email probably way too late for any commuter presumably already standing in snow and swearing at bus stops or getting turned away from suspended tube services. Here’s the latest: all buses were suspended last …

London brims with fantastic bloggers dishing out the inside scoop on aspects of our city which inspire them, bringing to life and documenting things which might otherwise be missed. As fellow London fanatics there are lots we enjoy reading, so we’re going to start interviewing …

Lloyds TSB ‘top gay employer’ Every year gay campaign group/charity Stonewall publishes its list of top 100 gay-friendly employers. London has always done quite well on the lists, for three reasons: 1) Because of our city’s innate cosmopolitanism (is that a word?); 2) Because Mayor …

Yesterday we were so bemused by the prolix perambulations in Boris’ Way To Go transport document that we neglected to consider the very real probability of significant cuts to long-planned transport schemes. After the laughter, come the tears: today, in their 10-year business plan, TfL …

Wood Lane tube taken from a passing H&C train this morning After a farcical delay, the new mainline station at Shepherd’s Bush has been given an opening date of 28th September. As transport-obsessive blog London Reconnections has diligently noted, the 28th has been in mind …

You wait ages for a story about Transport for London (TfL), and then loads come along at once. After the earth-shattering news that TfL staff sometimes use taxis (*clutch at pearls*), and heaps of other problems, today they lost a case in court as a …

Confounded to discover that your Oyster card was knackered when you tried to hop on the Tube this morning? You’re not the only one. A major card fault hit the system on Saturday morning, meaning that cards were inoperable for a five hour period. Worse …

Those slightly addle-eyed folk who rant about Government conspiracies, claim that we’re all microchipped at birth and believe the Oyster card is a sinister scheme to track our movements may be feeling a little righteous today: Transport for London has been criticised for “collecting data …