First Great Western apologises to customers for underestimating need for services for World Cup game September 19, 2015 Train company First Great Western has issued an apology after acknowledging it did not prepare a sufficient amount of service to take customers to Cardiff for a world cup game. https://twitter.com/FGW/status/645178705980063744 Rugby fans at Paddington were attempting to travel to Cardiff to a rugby world cup match between Ireland and Canada, held at the Millennium [...]
First Great Western apologise to customers for underestimating need for services during World Cup game September 19, 2015 Train company First Great Western has issued an apology after acknowledging it did not prepare a sufficient amount of service to take customers to Cardiff for a world cup game. https://twitter.com/FGW/status/645178705980063744 Rugby fans at Paddington were attempting to travel to Cardiff to a rugby world cup match between Ireland and Canada, held at the Millennium [...]
Uber can help make London’s congestion a thing of the past – if sensible regulation allows innovation September 17, 2015 Every morning, 1m people brave London’s roads at rush hour and drive to work. And 94 per cent of them drive alone. This might be preferable to squeezing onto public transport, but the strain on London’s roads will only worsen as our economy grows. We need change. Yet there is an alternative to [...]
Transport for London secretly make a geographically accurate Tube map and it’s strangely hypnotising September 17, 2015 The London Tube map that's been in use since Harry Beck designed it in 1931 may (rightly) be lauded as a classic feat of design, but with all those 45-degree corners and straight lines, it doesn’t come particularly close to reality. Journeys that appear only a few hundred metres in length on the map sometimes [...]
Happy first birthday: Contactless cards have been on the Tube for a year September 17, 2015 They may account for 20 per cent of all pay-as-you-go journeys now, but contactless payments on the Tube were introduced just one year ago today. Over 180 million journeys have been made with contactless cards, more than 625,000 a day. A whopping one in seven of all contactless card payments in the UK are made [...]
Uber taxi protest brings London to standstill (again) as black cab drivers demonstrate outside Boris Johnson’s Question Time at City Hall September 16, 2015 Mayor's Question Time was shut down after police were called to City Hall today, after a security guard was apparently knocked out in scuffle outside the building. Black cab drivers were demonstrating outside (and inside) the Southbank venue over ongoing criticism of Transport for London's handling of regulation for private hire car companies, in particular [...]
Transport for London partners with startup Blaze to trial new safety light for Boris Bikes September 16, 2015 Transport for London is trialling a new safety feature on Boris Bikes in a bid to reduce the number of accidents with cyclists in London. Blaze lights will project a laser image of a bike onto the road in front of the bike to alert pedestrians and drivers to the oncoming cyclist. The feature is [...]
TfL Tube strikes 2015: Why they were good for commuters and the economy September 14, 2015 The chaos of the Tube strikes may have caused misery and disrupted your commute, but actually they more than likely did you a favour – and the economy too. A summer blighted by strikes forced people to find alternative routes and deviate from their usual commute. Of course, no one likes change, but new research suggests that [...]
Londoners spend an entire working week commuting – every year September 11, 2015 Think your commute to work is miserably long? It’s when you add it all up that it really gets depressing, as new figures show that Londoners spend an entire working week commuting – every year. The capital’s workers spend 107 hours every year travelling, making it by far the worst commute in the country, according [...]
Tour of Britain 2015 route map: How to watch the cycling race live avoiding traffic chaos and road closures September 10, 2015 The Tour of Britain arrives in London this Sunday, as top cyclists from around the world compete for the first spot in the UK’s largest professional cycle race. If you fancy catching a glimpse of the cyclists whizzing through the capital on the final stretch of the eight-day race, we’ve rounded up the best spots [...]