Can banning ‘bare beating’ force people to wear headphones on the tube? Opinion ‘Headphone dodgers’ who listen to music on the tube with the sound up are easy to hate but ‘bare beating’ is a problem that is harder to solve than you think, argues James Ford Public transport is often seen as an inherently good thing. Done well, transport policy can be a silver bullet that solves [...]
TfL launches fresh crackdown on fare evasion with new measures Transport and infrastructure Transport for London (TfL) plans to expand its team of investigators as part of a suite of new measures to crack down on fare evasion. London’s transport body is aiming to halve fare evasion across all its services, which costs hundreds of millions each year, to 1.5 per cent or less by 2030. The rate [...]
‘Too rigid’: Let us decide timetables, London Overground operator Arriva says Business Arriva Group, which operates the London Overground, said operator's can't make "straightfoward" changes in the best interest of passengers.