London Underground just had its busiest day ever, with 4.6m journeys November 20, 2014 Last Friday was the busiest day in the history of the tube, according to Transport for London. London Underground carried well over four and a half million passengers (4.6m) on Friday the 14 November. This beat its previous record, which was set during the London 2012 Olympic games, when a whopping 4.5m journeys were made [...]
Victoria Station evacuated after fire alarm: Commuters resume travel following alert November 19, 2014 Services have now been resumed at Victoria Station after a fire alert left rush-hour passengers stranded on trains for up to 30 minutes. Travellers coming into London from Kent and the surrounding areas were thrown into chaos when the station was evacuated. Fire crews attended as hundreds of passengers as services going into and out [...]
Tube, train or bus? What your daily commute says about how you spend your time travelling November 18, 2014 Londoners waste hours of their lives commuting. If ever Jane Austen was looking for another truth universally acknowledged that would be it. But what exactly do we do with that time? Turns out it really depends on what kind of commuter you are. According to a Kantar Worldpanel study of 15,000 people, our time-wasting [...]
Green light for Battersea Tube extension November 13, 2014 Ministers have given the green light to a new London Underground station at Battersea, following plans to extend the Northern Line from Kennington, via Nine Elms. Both areas will get new stations, which will be open by 2020, at a cost of almost £1bn. The station will connect the regeneration area around the power station [...]
Northern line: £1bn TfL Tube extension to Battersea and Nine Elms gets the green light November 13, 2014 The extension of the Northern line to Battersea through Nine Elms was given the green light by the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin yesterday. Under the plans, the line will run from Kennington to Battersea through Nine Elms, meaning journeys to the West End and the City will take just under 15 minutes. Two new stations [...]
Is this the end of Tech City’s Silicon Roundabout at Old Street in Shoreditch? TfL plans pedestrian square November 13, 2014 A new radical plan for Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch, the home to many of Tech City’s startups, could transform the area into a pedestrian square. Made famous as “Silicon Roundabout”, Transport for London has unveiled plans to transform it into a pedestrian- and bike-friendly zone as part of £4bn road modernisation plans, effectively demolishing [...]
Mastercard “Fare Free Friday”: Free travel on London transport on 14 and 28 November using TFL’s contactless payment November 10, 2014 Londoners are being treated to travel around the city for free if they use a MasterCard on the transport network’s new contactless payment system this Friday. MasterCard holders will be able travel by tube, train, tram, bus and DLR for free by swiping their card on the new contactless system which has now been used [...]
Mastercard “Fare Free Friday”: Free travel for Londoners on 14 and 28 November using TFL’s contactless payment November 10, 2014 Londoners are being treated to travel around the city for free if they use a MasterCard on the transport network’s new contactless payment system this Friday. MasterCard holders will be able travel by tube, train, tram, bus and DLR for free by swiping their card on the new contactless system which has now been used [...]
Sage vs Netsuite: CEOs Stephen Kelly and Zach Nelson take Tube-inspired ad war to Twitter November 6, 2014 Netsuite, the US software firm, is on the war path. The cloud computing giant wants a slice of UK rival Sage’s market share and isn’t afraid of getting its hands a bit dirty. On Wednesday, it launched a newspaper ad campaign, using a Tube-like map to attack Sage: “All Sage lines terminate here,” said the [...]
How many hours do you waste on the Tube? Millions every month… November 3, 2014 Has it ever felt like you are wasting your life away on public transport? Turns out that feeling might not be too far from the mark. Official figures show that Londoners lost a total of 7.1m hours on the Tube in the second quarter of this year – that's 47 per cent up on [...]