Getting through Brixton by car has always been a nightmare. In fact, Londonist remembers an apocryphal tale told to us once in the midst of a Brixton Road traffic jam which claimed that the reason there has not been any major developments in decades to …
As you probably know by now, the Northern Line is closed today after the Unions called for the trains to be withdrawn due to safety concerns. The whole thing came to a head last night after a train’s emergency brakes failed (despite the high-tech rope-based …
The London Assembly (yes, the lot who sit around all day twiddling their thumbs if Ken is to be believed) have rejected the motion put forward by the ‘politcial group’ One London to suspend the Congestion Charge in the run up to Christmas. According to …
Why haven’t Quorn invented the Quornish pasty yet? And why are there no human-rated giant-rubber-ball-based danger sports? Well, today we can strike one item from the list of things that should have been thought of years ago. As you’ve no doubt already seen, the BBC …
Since a brakes scare last week the Northern Line has been pretty much crippled with almost constant ‘severe delays’ and crowded, interminable waits for anyone using it. The problems began when LU were forced to double-up drivers on the Northern Line trains after four (count …
Remember the diesel spillage which happened earlier on in the week? Well, thanks to London SE1 site we’ve got a bit of an update on what’s going on. Apparently the ‘red diesel’ has “spread upstream along the SE1 riverside and beyond, with patches spotted as …
- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …
If you were trying to travel through London Bridge station on Saturday afternoon, around 1:30pm then you may have run into a few delays. The reason being that, according to the BBC, a power surge that sent “a flare 10 foot into the air from …
The Waterloo & City line is to be closed for as long as five months from next April so that “urgent repair” work can be undertaken. “Travel hell” hardly begins to cover it; the odd little W&C line, known to its “fans” as “The Drain” …
“Under the sea, there’ll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans.” When Homer J. Simpson first uttered these immortal words he was dreaming of a place of make-believe. But one day we might just be able to join him in his little ethereal world, aboard a …
Just a quick note to say that Battersea Bridge is going to be closed for a while yet following the incident on Tuesday night, when a gravel barge crashed into it. Initially it was thought the bridge would be able to reopen straight away but …
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