Ken Livingstone wants more Black, Asian and “people from ethnic minorities” to become cabbies, and to prove it he’s putting on a roadshow. According to this London Assembly press release only “one in 20 existing taxi drivers is from Black, Asian and ethnic minorities, compared …
With their tube drivers threatening to strike again and doubts being cast on their Olympic preparedness, Transport for London are really in need of a decent ‘good news story’. And it may be that the canals of London could provide them with one. This week …
If you read our little report on the growing tensions between the capital’s Critical Mass movement and The Met last week and were wondering what the upshot was, then read on… If you remember the Met had warned Critical Mass that unless they received prior …
If you’ve already read today’s Guardian you’ll know that a trial of ‘airport-style’ security scanners is being planned for London as early as next month. According to the paper “Ministers are expected to announce a trial of the scheme at London’s Paddington station next month. …
While we’re on the theme of close liaisons on the Underground, we should probably mention a story from the Beeb that suggests things are going to get a whole lot closer. A new study concludes that our already-bulging Tube and train carriages will have to …
The tube can take you to most places (except Hackney, Peterborough and Wales) but can it bring you love? Is it the place to meet The One? Will you find your soulmate on Platform Three Southbound via Bank? Ah, the romantics amongst us would say …
The BBC reports today that the fine for fare evading could go up from £20 to £50 next year. And, although they resist the use of the word ‘slap’, the Beeb also tells us that repeat offendors could be issued with ABSOs. (Incidentally we did …
It’s an age old trick: if things aren’t going right, blame the guy who’s not English. And in London, where we’re particularly bad at sorting out our transport sytsems it’s always those ‘foreign types’ who end up the worse for wear when somethig grinds to …
Monorail is coming to Heathrow. (crowd cheers!) Heathrow is building a driverless monorail system to link the car park on the perimeter of the airport to Terminal One. Initially a trial, due to be completed in 2008, the system promises to replace the irregular car …
Occasionally at Londonist we like to grow our hair long and not shave the various body appendages that any sane person should do in urban environment. ‘Jesus sandals’ become a mainstay in the footwear department, Janis Joplin an iPOD favourite and lentils start to be …
Just a quick post to say, if you haven’t seen part one of Annie Mole’s Little Known London Underground Pictures posts on the London Underground blog then you’re missing out. Her shots of the the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone Tube are just amazing and Annie’s …
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