Image by ben hanbury from the Londonist Flickr pool Catch the Piccadilly line today? Hear something weird? That would have been a new initiative to cheer you up and inspire you (probably; unless the driver was telling someone to get the hell clear of the …
The Underground’s new S-stock trains, which go into service on the District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines from next year, are now undergoing engineering trials. The trains, which we got a sneak preview of last year, grab the headlines for being the first …
Plans to inflict mobile coverage onto the tube network, which have been resurrected more times than Peter Andre’s career, appear to be enjoying a new outing, this time using the excuse of the 2012 Olympics. Although TfL, who shelved plans back in March, say they …
Image by gary8345 from the Londonist Flickr pool Well, not quite. TfL is expected to announce it’s worked out how to save £2.5bn to meet the funding gap left by Metronet’s demise. In addition to the 1,000 redundancies that brought the RMT out on strike, …
Here’s a neat, if geeksome, idea. A phone application that tells you which Tube carriage to use in order to be next to the exit at your destination stop. Tube Exits is causing quite a buzz among a certain demographic. You can download it for …
Never mind Diversity, TfL’s underground ticket machines should be competing on Britain’s Got Talent. Thanks to a software upgrade, the cosmopolitan consoles are now conversant in 17 languages (as long as the conversation is about ticket pricing). Previously, the machines could only cope with English, …
In what will shortly be turned into a conspiracy theory by the darker elements of the body politic, a poster on the Tube advertising holidays in Israel featured a map with nary a sign of Palestine. The map, which showed an Israel composed of its …
Take your last look at Shoreditch: zone 2 / image by diamond geezer under a Creative Commons licence A couple of bits of transport news filtered out of south-east London in the last week or so: the proposed Victoria-Bellingham service has been scrapped in the …
Photo by dicksdaily As British victims of the swine flu epidemic soared into single figures, media panic reached a new level of hysteria with one Londoner being reported as being suffering from ‘mild flu-like symptoms’. After the rather startling news that 2095 Londoners die every …
By Southcasting via the Londonist Flickrpool Boris can barely contain a ‘yah boo sucks’ in his contribution to the press release in which TfL announce London Underground has been named “Best Metro in Europe” at industry awards, The Metros. The Mayor roundly acclaims LU “Champions …
1930s mail rail stock Our enthusiasm for improbable Underground projects was piqued by a report on transport spotters digi-Bible London Reconnections about a plan to re-purpose London’s mail train. The blog quotes a piece in Contract Journal, which cites a call by Lord Berkely to …
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