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High-speed link it definitely isn’t, but if you have three or four days to spare, a sturdy pair of calf muscles and a yen to visit Paris the greenest way, then the promised Avenue Verte, or Green Avenue may – eventually – be right up your street.

Detail of Tube map, now with added Crossrail Seven years (and then some) before passengers will even get to board a train, Crossrail has already marked out its place on the Tube map. On this connections map. the cross-London beast bores through the centre of …

This morning the Mayor and transport minister Theresa Villiers officially unveiled the new designs for central London’s eight new Crossrail stations. Despite concerns that budgetary cutbacks would dilute some of the more ambitious plans, it seems that the axe hasn’t fallen quite so harshly: Canary Wharf’s …

At 8am, TFL said that over 40 per cent of Tube trains are in operation. A service is operating on all lines except the Circle Line, although there are some planned station closures. A good service is reportedly running across the bus network, DLR, London …

The case of the hibernating Waterloo Station’s erstwhile Eurostar platforms gets curiouser and curiouser. When the five platforms closed down in November 2007, we were informed that at least one would be integrated into the domestic service within a year at a cost of £100,000. …

A mobile app purchased by around 100,000 people is currently crippled after Transport for London withdrew a key data stream. The journey planner XML API was killed without warning a week ago, apparently in the face of a security threat. Two prominent travel applications (London …

BBC London has been out to Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to visit the headquarters of Wrightbus, the company charged with building the New Bus for London, occasionally known as ‘son of Routemaster’. They’ve come back with pictures and a video walk-through of the prototype vehicle. Of …

Bikes are piled up after the afternoon rush hour Cycle Hire bikes piled up near Royal Festival Hall, as far as the eye can see. Over 100 of them. At first blush it looks like some pesky delinquents have been preparing them for sale to …

Earlier this week, Southwark Street had the honour of welcoming the first docking station for the cycle hire scheme, which launches on July 30th this year. Barclays Cycle Hire, as the sponsorship obliges us to call it (’cause Barclays and bikes are a natural fit), …

Like a cigar-chomping Bjork smoking up in the departure lounge, the Icelandic ash cloud has caused havoc for London airports overnight. Gatwick, Heathrow, and London City were closed between 0100 and 0700 BST on Monday morning as Eyjafjallajökull’s emissions hoved southwards. All three have now …