Don’t congratulate Sadiq Khan for delivering the transport London needed 10 years ago Opinion So far, Sadiq Khan's only transport achievements have been to cut the ribbon on new projects that his predecessors started, writes James Ford.
Office cycle racks empty as e-bikes pile up – could the solution be obvious? Opinion Far from a cycling decline, unused bike parking at offices proves London's developers have solved the wrong problem, writes Stef Lehmann.
Deloitte hit with £11m fine after missing £30m taxpayer fraud at UK transport giant Big Four Big Four giant Deloitte has been fined £11m for failing to raise concerns about fraud in its statutory audits of the transport business, the Go-Ahead Group (GAG), which operates multiple train services across the UK. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said on Thursday the fine, which was discounted to £6.05m for early admission and co-operation, [...]
Lime pumps £1m into parking to tackle London e-bike clutter October 7, 2026 Green bike conglomerate Lime is pumping nearly £1m into hundreds of new e-bike parking bays as it looks to tackle the pavement clutter that has accompanied London’s rental bike boom. The capital’s biggest shared e-bike operator has awarded £886,857 to nine boroughs, including Greenwich, Lambeth and Hackney, to create or expand 586 parking bays this [...]
Why are so many London buses crashing? October 1, 2026 The number of buses crashing in London is up by a fifth in seven years, but City Hall seems unconcerned. James Ford is worried Something is going badly wrong with London’s buses. On average, every day a staggering 44 London buses crash. That is an increase of nearly 20 per cent on 2019 (which is [...]
E-bike giants back Khan bid to end London ‘Wild West’ September 29, 2026 London’s leading e-bike operators have backed Sadiq Khan’s bid to end the capital’s regulatory ‘Wild West’ while piling pressure on the government to get a long-awaited city-wide licensing regime into force. Lime, Forest and Voi welcomed new plans to replace London’s borough-by-borough wars with a single framework overseen by Transport for London (TfL), after years [...]
London cannot afford an ‘Autumn of Discontent’ of Tube strikes September 21, 2026 The RMT has voted for further Tube strikes because TfL has offered them the wrong kind of four day week. It's normal Londoners that suffer.
In defence of Ealing Broadway’s ‘calm space’ September 17, 2026 The arrival of an unlit hut at Ealing Broadway has naturally been the source of ridicule, but there is some sense behind it, says Sophie Maxwell Brown.
Reform’s London mayor pick: I want to design London like an iPhone September 16, 2026 Londoners are steadily finding out who will be on the ballot sheet for the next mayoral election in 2028. Mauricio Alencar spoke to Reform UK’s candidate Laila Cunningham about her tunnel-vision approach to getting things done. Laila Cunningham has a simple pitch to Londoners. While, for the moment, it looks like Labour and the Tories [...]
Nationalising London buses fixes a nonexistent problem September 14, 2026 City Hall already controls London’s bus network, so why is Sadiq Khan humouring a proposal to build a publicly owned bus operator.