Wood Lane tube taken from a passing H&C train this morning After a farcical delay, the new mainline station at Shepherd's Bush has been given an opening date of 28th September. As transport-obsessive blog London Reconnections has diligently noted, the 28th has been in mind for a while now - signs have appeared stating as much - but only received official confirmation today. The station will serve Westfield Shopping Centre, and sits on the West......

You wait ages for a story about Transport for London (TfL), and then loads come along at once. After the earth-shattering news that TfL staff sometimes use taxis (*clutch at pearls*), and heaps of other problems, today they lost a case in court as a customer successfully had his fare evasion conviction quashed. He argued that customers should have been instructed to hear the correct beep and see the green LED light flash in......

Confounded to discover that your Oyster card was knackered when you tried to hop on the Tube this morning? You're not the only one. A major card fault hit the system on Saturday morning, meaning that cards were inoperable for a five hour period. Worse was to come. When the system lurched back into operation, any cards that had been passed over a swipe machine during the problem - up to 40,000, according to......

Those slightly addle-eyed folk who rant about Government conspiracies, claim that we're all microchipped at birth and believe the Oyster card is a sinister scheme to track our movements may be feeling a little righteous today: Transport for London has been criticised for "collecting data without a clear purpose" when asking kids to fill in an application form for their free Travelcard. Since June, kids looking to jump on the bus or tube have......

As far as fare cards go, the tap-in-tap-out system of Oyster is pretty simple and, barring someone nicking it on its way back to your pocket, pretty secure. But that latter thought might be disproven as a pair of German researchers are now claiming they've hacked the Oyster system. Karsten Nohl and Heinryk Platz say they sorted out how to clone the Dutch manufactured chips used in Oyster and similar cards internationally in December.......

A former magistrate with a personality disorder and apparently plenty of time on his hands, scammed the London Underground out of £5,000. Between 2003 and 2006, 33-year-old Terrance Jolley made over 2,000 claims for refunds by saying his trains had been delayed. Not happy about receiving his fraudulent checks in a timely fashion, though, the small-time thief complained to London Underground's managing director about the slow process, and was found out after LU looked......

Yesterday, Ken announced that London will have a city bike hire scheme, a la Vélib' in Paris, with up to 6,000 bikes located across docking stations every 300m. Hooray! This major investment in cycling - £500 million over a decade - will transform the way we get around the capital although it's unlikely we'll see the bikes on our streets until 2010. Better commuter cycle routes are also planned. The programme will improve pedestrian......

That's right, the DLR has been going for, if you can believe it, 20 years today. This seems like forever for this Londonista's favourite mode of transport around London. So where did it all start? Well Londonist took a little light rail trip down memory lane. Way back in the 80s, it's hard to imagine but the Docklands were a no man's land in London. (No one came in, no one went out.) This......

Hot on the heels of the pay as you go pups comes brilliant news that Ken Livingstone has ordered a feasibility study into a pay as you go bike scheme for London. We were in Paris the other week and saw the excellent Vélib' (freedom bike) set up. Specially designed, heavy grey cycles are stationed at bike stands all over the city, available for hire for as little as 1 Euro for half an......

Over the years there have been many attempts to introduce the rather shy, furtive and, let's face it, constantly tardy London Underground system to the shiny, brash and only occasionally unstable world of modern technology. Keeping track of the Tube's many ups and downs would be a huge benefit to the thousands of us who use it every single day. Wouldn't it be great to know about a 'suspect package' or a 'derailment' before......

Transport For London has announced today that's it's planning to introduce an 'e-money' element to the Oyster card. The idea being that Oyster Card holders will be able to use them to "buy newspapers and milk and pay for car parking". So far most of the media has taken the "is this the end for cash" angle on this one, but there are some other questions which will undoubtedly arise. Like, if the Oyster......

Ever stood in a queue for a tube ticket and wondered why the person in front of you was taking so damn long? Of course, we at Londonist never get angry or impatient, and we certainly never have thoughts like: "Oh my God, are you some kind of imbecile? Just put your money in and get your ticket. It's not bloody brain surgery." And we certainly wouldn't entertain notions such as: "If you don't sort......