Travel disruption on London Overground between Willesden Junction and Shepherd’s Bush after digger incident November 16, 2015 A section of the London Overground was shut off this morning, after a digger pulled down overhead wiring on the line over the weekend. There was no service between Willesden Junction and Shepherd's Bush this morning, with Transport for London instead operating a rail replacement bus service between the two stations, in both directions. The bus runs [...]
From Sainsbury’s Christmas advert to the Lord Mayor’s Show 2015: Here’s what got us talking this week November 13, 2015 Boris got into all sorts of bother in Israel. London's saddest skyscraper got given a new lease of life (fingers crossed). And Generation Rent got told to quit their whining. Here's what got us talking this week 1) Are you ready for the Lord Mayor's Show? Today marks the 800th time the procession has been [...]
On one day last month the London Underground carried more passengers than the population of Wales November 13, 2015 Transport for London (TfL) has published passenger statistics for last month showing than on 9 October this year, the Tube carried a record-breaking 4.7 million customers. That's 1.6 times the population of Wales. Thought your commute was getting busier? You're not wrong: according to TfL, the last week of October was the Tube's busiest ever, with [...]
Travel disruption to Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink trains as trespasser between Herne Hill and Denmark Hill halts services November 13, 2015 Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink commuters were being warned to expect disruption to their commute until at least 9am today after a trespasser caused some lines to come to a standstill in south-east London. The person was thought to have been on the track near Denmark Hill and Herne Hill around 8am this morning, affecting services [...]
Eurostar travel disruption after London to Paris ES9050 train collides with boar on the line in France November 11, 2015 Eurostar is sending a rescue train to move the ES9050 London to Paris train, which was stopped when it hit a boar earlier this evening, to Lille. The company will provide an empty train at Lille so that the journey to Paris can be completed. The company said earlier that it was able to re-open one of its [...]
Federation of Small Businesses calls on London councils and TfL to offer free festive parking November 11, 2015 Business lobby group the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling on London councils and Transport for London to offer free parking for Christmas shoppers over the festive period. With Small Business Saturday on 5 December, the FSB hopes that the organisations will nix the car parking charges. Half of the FSB’s members said that the [...]
Tube fare hikes have cost Londoners an extra £2,683 each, a new report shows November 11, 2015 Talk about a top-up: Londoners have each spent an additional £2,683 using the London Underground since 2008, thanks to fare hikes. The team behind Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan crunched the numbers, finding commuters going between Zone 1 and Zone 6 have been charged an extra £2,683 for their monthly travel cards since 2008, compared to a [...]
TfL Tube strikes in July and August 2015 cost Londoners £168m in lost man hours and the hardest hit lines for travel delays were the District and Hammersmith & City November 11, 2015 The Tube strikes that paralysed the London Underground this summer cost us £168m in lost man-hours. London came to a standstill on 8 July, and again on 5 and 6 August, as Transport for London (TfL) clashed with unions over the introduction of the Night Tube. Now, we know you don’t need us to tell you [...]
TfL offers temporary relief for taxi drivers over criminal check backlog as row escalates over taxi drivers’ DSB checks November 10, 2015 Transport for London has agreed to introduce temporary licences for existing taxi drivers after a major backlog of criminal checks had built up, forcing drivers off the road. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, are processed by the Home Office and individual police forces. But drivers have complained that they have been unable to work – in some cases since [...]
Transport for London’s new Tube map reveals how many minutes it takes to walk between stations November 10, 2015 Did yet another sweaty Tube ride to work this morning leave you wishing there was a better way? Perhaps there is: Transport for London has released a new and improved version of its walking Tube map, revealing how many (or how few) minutes it takes to walk between stations, following on a similar map made [...]