We can’t really say that A View to a Kill was one of our favourite Bond movies, but it did have its moments. Grace Jones as May Day leaping from the Eiffel Tower leaving a past-his-prime Roger Moore to raise an iconic eyebrow after her …
Lots of stuff in the press today about Alistair Darling’s idea for a carpool lane on the M25. Apparently Darling got the idea after a visit to LA last year where “some drivers have gone to extraordinary lengths to take advantage of faster journey times …
It’s still two days to April Fools, but tell that to the staff at Victoria Tube Station. This roving Londonist correspondent was in the station – the network’s busiest – at 8.45pm this evening and was both astonished and entertained to hear the following announcement …
Anyone off to the Old Vic tomorrow evening will be greeted by Canary Wharf’s cleaners as part of a delegation from the Transport and General Workers Union in an attempt to raise public awareness of their campaign for a living wage. Morgan Stanley who are …
We just got a news release from the London Assembly Conservatives: Tower Bridge failure causes chaos Tower Bridge got stuck today forcing traffic tail backs and vehicles to be diverted into the congestion charge zone. The incident occurred as the bridge tried to lower itself …
How long have we been hearing the ‘mobile phones will work on tubes’ story? Well it finally it looks like Ken is taking some definite steps to getting the Underground totally wired up. According to the press we should see mobile phone transmitters on the …
The BBC reports that London Underground has placed vintage posters around the tube network to announce the arrival of Spring. The posters were selected form the archive of the London Transport Museum and were originally produced to “encourage Londoners to use the Tube as one …
London’s theatre land area is to get a makeover courtesy of a £6 million pound cash injection, the first 1.8 million of which “has been raised from Transport for London, Westminster council, the Cross-River Partnership and theatres themselves“. The scheme has plans to widen the …
Public Private Partnerships on the Tube have been slammed harder than passengers’ heads during a derailment, in a new parliamentary report. Politics.co.uk reports that far from improving things under the streets of London the PPP approach has resulted in an increase of incidents that “could …
Leicester Square tube station has been the victim of a “major branding takeover” by Apple who are hell-bent on making sure everyone is aware of the new youth targeted iPod Shuffle. Apple has created what they’re calling the “iPod Zone” by purchasing pretty much every …
It was a strange day for those using the trains yesterday. First tens of thousands of commuters got a free ride when the Oyster card system collapsed. Then passengers at Euston were delayed for 45 minutes while armed police officers got ready to swoop on …
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