Today’s Guardian contains a brilliant article by their music writer, Dorian Lynskey, who explains how he went about adapting the London Underground in order to plot the history of 20th century music. The idea is simple and ingenious: each line takes on a certain musical …
A public-spirited chap called Carl Court has provided the BBC with a dossier of photos that reveal the shocking state of many railway stations in London and the South-east. London stations that get named and shamed include London Bridge, Battersea Park and Charlton. It’s depressing …
It’s all gone a bit Suzy Wong in London lately; it seems the city has gone mental for the Oriental this February and London Underground has not been immune. As part of the China in London season, and as part of its 20th birthday celebrations, …
We said in this morning’s Extra, Extra section that London was a “very strong candidate” to be the site of the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Well, we didn’t lie, because in the past few hours Ken has announced that organisers the Amaury …
The late great Douglas Adams once wrote: It is no coincidence that in no known language of the galaxy does there exist the expression ‘as beautiful as an airport’. Words of wisdom, indeed. However, in a few years’ time, this once-universal truth could be fundamentally …
Expect an increase in the number of headphones appearing on regular bus users to help drown out the dead robotic voice of fate… Visually impaired people should find London’s buses easier to use if plans to introduce next stop announcements prove successful. The system, similar …
The big air rage story this morning may have had all the drama of FBI agents grappling with a passenger as he tried to open the door at 33,000 feet, but we prefer our drunken passenger stories to have a touch more celebrity. Like this …
Every now and again we ask old grandmother Londonist for a little extra pocket money* so we can take a cab and laugh at all the people struggling with ticket machines as we whiz across the city knocking pedestrians and cyclists asunder like they were …
The BBC have reported that the ACAS talks between London Underground and the RMT have broken down… again. It took just four hours for the two sides to reach breaking point, which means it’s now very likely that the strike scheduled to begin on the …
You can fault London Underground for a lot of things, but you have to admit that their timing is impeccable. Honestly, what better time is there to ask commuters to nominate ‘outstanding’ Tube staff than directly between two controversial strikes, the first of which threatened …
In the last hour the the RMT has done exactly what everyone knew they were going to do: announced a 24 hour tube strike over New Year’s eve. The argument reaches back to last Christmas when the union brokered a deal with Transport for London …
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