Transport

Another day, another report about how underfunded and overcrowded London’s transport system is. This time it’s the Centre for Economics and Business Research who are doing the reporting on behalf of the lobbying group London First. And their shocking message is that we need “significant …

The Labour peer Lord Tom Pendry is calling for the government to introduce a code of practice to ensure the 2012 Olympics are are “not marred by betting irregularities”. The mix of local councils, the London Assembly and central government quangos that consitutue London’s governance …

We have to end the week with another lazy ‘look-e-here, someone’s played around with the Tube map’ post. Last week, the reworked network incorporated famous musicians. This week, somebody with enormous amounts of surplus time on their hands has generated an anagram-laden version. It’s utterly …

Two strikes, several picket lines and a 7 month campaign later, the House of Commons cleaners have secured a pay rise and new rights for themselves. Strikes were held before and after last year’s summer recess by the cleaners who were being paid below the …

Reuters is reporting that the RMT has voted in favour of strike action by a 6-1 margin. No date has been set yet but it’s understood that a walkout will be coordinated alongside Aslef. Bob Crow is giving a press conference as we type this …

Everyone’s seen that airy glass box at the back of St Pancras, right? The efficient but soulless terminus for Midland Mainline trains. Well, you may have noticed that it contains a set of cordoned-off escalators that never open. Where do they go? To borrow from …

We’re not sure the villagers of Sipson would agree with this but apparently Heathrow needs to expand still further. Madrid Barajas airport opened two new runways today, expanding its capacity by half so that it can cope with 120 take-offs and landings per hour. That’s …

You know the RMT was planning to ballot its 1,500 Tube driver members for strike action? Well they’ve now decided that’s not enough and they’re also going to ballot 5,000 members from across the entire Tube membership. The official reasoning behind this, according to Gen …

Arsenal, on the Piccadilly Line: a tube station named after a football team, which is named after an area of South-East London, which is called after an ammunition storage facility. Something of an identity crises, one might say. Well, things are about to come to …

We avoided using it in the headline but we can’t resist… it’s the end of the line (ho ho) for the Gatwick Express. BBC News says the government reckons it’s a little inefficient to have a half-full train clogging up the lines when you could …