Uber offers discounts up to 50 per cent to celebrate opening of Elizabeth line May 23, 2022 Uber has announced it will offer discounted fares to celebrate tomorrow’s opening of the long-awaited Elizabeth line. Running for the first 500 trips on a first come first served basis, the ELIZABETHLINE promotional code will cover trips to Elizabeth line stations, including Paddington, Tottenham Court Road and Canary Wharf. “The Tube is an iconic part [...]
Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross become Crossrail winners as office rents skyrocket by as much as 123 per cent May 23, 2022 The much anticipated arrival of Crossrail has driven huge office rental growth in London submarkets, which have outperformed traditional hubs like the West End and The City of London. It comes after 24 May 2022 was confirmed as the official launch date for Crossrail. New data reveals that prime rents in Shoreditch and Clerkenwell during [...]
Cheaper airport journeys in sight as Elizabeth line tickets will cost half of Heathrow Express May 18, 2022 Travelling to Heathrow aboard the Elizabeth line will cost half compared with the Heathrow Express. Tickets to the airport will be £10.70 off peak and £12.70 at peak times, respectively 57 and 49 per cent less compared with the high speed rail’s £25 ticket, the Evening Standard reported. In terms of duration, Crossrail services departing [...]
PM calls on industry to build Crossrail 2 following Elizabeth line opening May 17, 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on the industry to build Crossrail 2 on the same day he attended the Elizabeth line’s opening. Johnson said the government would back the project but businesses would need to come up with a plan to pay for it. “The real thing for us now is to think about [...]
Royal welcome: Queen attends official opening of long awaited Elizabeth Line May 17, 2022 The Queen amazed everyone when she attended the official opening of the Elizabeth Line on Tuesday morning. The monarch was pictured at Paddington station, where she was welcomed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, London mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) commissioner Andy Byford. The Queen, 96, met with Crossrail workers and was presented [...]
Honest mistake: Passenger mocks TfL for Elizabeth line labelling mishap May 3, 2022 Transport for London (TfL) was recently mocked by a passenger for making a “mistake” in the labelling of the Elizabeth Line. Daniel Tomlinson, senior economist at think tank the Resolution Foundation, took it to Twitter on 29 April to report that a poster on the Central line was showing the word “line” next to Elizabeth. [...]
Elizabeth line to cut journey times in half April 19, 2022 Elizabeth line services are expected to connect the whole of London east to west, cutting journey times in more than half. Set to open in the next few weeks, the first chunk of the line, from Abbey Wood to Paddington, will see services between Abbey Wood to Paddington take 29 minutes instead of 55, while [...]
The Elizabeth Line in pictures: Our first look at Crossrail February 8, 2022 It’s almost here. Almost fifteen years after being granted approval by government, the Elizabeth Line is set to open in just months. City A.M. Editor Andy Silvester went underground to see the line’s progress – trusty iPhone camera in tow. I THINK people are going to be impressed” are TfL Commissioner Andy Byford’s last words [...]
Elizabeth line is tangibly close to completion, TfL says February 2, 2022 The completion of Crossrail’s Elizabeth line is ‘tangibly close’, according to Transport for London’s commissioner Andy Byford. “It really is that close,” Byford said this morning during a TfL board meeting. “We have really put huge effort into getting the trials off [to a start]. The commissioner added that the quick turnaround of stations was [...]
Canary Wharf becomes latest Elizabeth line’s station to join TfL January 25, 2022 Canary Wharf has become the latest and penultimate station on the Elizabeth line to be transferred from Crossrail to Transport for London (TfL). “This is the ninth station to be handed over to TfL and marks another big milestone for the Elizabeth line before it opens for passengers in the first half of this year,” [...]