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BA may have embarked on an advertising campaign to remind folk that T5 is “working”, but what’s a much better way of getting people to forget said terminal’s troubled birth? Show them that it’s by far the only problematic part of Heathrow. Last night some …

A sad day for transport geeks: London Connections, the endearingly obsessive blog that chronicles in painstaking detail transport projects across the capital, has shut up shop. The site’s owner, Mr. Thant, a welcome nit-picker of Londonist’s own travel-related reportage, is “moving on to other projects”, …

Where do Britons go when, in Christina Aguilera’s parlance, they want to get dirrty? (We’ll give you one guess.) Adding to its ever accumulating pile of accolades, London, according to a poll conducted by hotel site HRS.com, is the preferred destination for dirty weekends away. …

The little slice of subcontinental bureaucracy that is the Indian High Commission in Aldwych may soon bring to an end its long history of enraging and befuddling tourists. According to this report out of India, the High Commission will shortly bid “a cheery farewell to …

For those piqued by peak fares and confused by the lugubrious lexicon of British rail tickets, some good news: the entire system is to get a thorough shake-up, with a simplified structure introduced to make it easier for passengers to snag the best fare for …

Rail travel has lost some of its romantic appeal over the years, but there’s a new train route on its way that’s setting rail enthusiasts’ hearts aflutter — a 23-day, 7,000-mile trek that’ll connect

What with all the whinging we’ve done about the comical opening of T5, and the state of British infrastructure in general, it seems we’ve forgotten about the smooth, stress-free move that Eurostar made from Waterloo to St. Pancras last November. Fortunately, travellers to the continent …

Another day, another transport strike looms: this time it’s South West Trains. Quick: What’s 7 + 8 + 4 + 9? Did you have to use your fingers to complete the calculation? Half of Londoners do. And it’s costing us £500 million a year. Right, …

A couple of London ladies are embarking on an incredible adventure, mounting trusty steeds this summer to trek all the way to Turkey to raise money for the charity SOS Children. Zena Fish, a South London teacher, had never got on a horse until recently …

Her Maj has cut the ribbon on Heathrow’s Terminal 5. The £4.3 billion node, designed by Richard Rogers, opens for non-Royal business on 27 March. The BBC has all the facts and figures you could ever need. Rather than repeat them, with added quips, we’ll …