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 …
Image courtesy of Andy Wilkes from the Londonist Flickr pool Willesden Green, St John’s Wood, Finchley Road, Dollis Hill, Kilburn, West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage stations will in all likelihood be closed from 7pm tonight, as RMT affiliated staff go on strike for 24 hours. …
Photo by hey mr glen Thanks to reader Ben Henley who brought to our attention Minor Delays: an entertaining and savagely ambitious project by writer Holly Gramazio, in which she is writing a short story named after every Tube and DLR station, in alphabetical order. …
Photo by movilla via the Londonist Flickrpool.
Mind the…? A phrase that all Londoners know how to finish. The vibrant tube colours offset against the stark black makes this a strong image. And boy, that is one big gap! Photo by Hunter the Bunter via the Londonist Flickrpool. Londonist’s Slow Exposure Photography …
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