Underground misery strikes commuters as severe delays hit four Tube lines May 14, 2019 Severe delays hit four Tube lines this morning as signal failures brought commuters’ journeys into London grinding to a near standstill. Read more: Multiple Tube lines struck with severe delays Disruption plagued the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines after a signal failure at Farringdon this morning, with Transport for London (TfL) advising passengers that [...]
TfL did not see controversial Garden Bridge construction contract, boss reveals May 13, 2019 Transport for London (TfL) did not see the contract that the Garden Bridge Trust signed with a construction company for its proposed crossing over the Thames, which was later scrapped to the tune of £53.5m. The Garden Bridge project, which was backed by former mayor Boris Johnson and whose trustees included Joanna Lumley and former Labour minister [...]
Tube delays: Commuters suffer severe delays on key London Underground lines May 13, 2019 Commuters were set to face a painful journey to work this morning as a signal failure and police investigation led to disruption across multiple Tube lines. Read more: DEBATE: Should industrial action on the Tube be banned? Severe delays struck the Bakerloo Line after a signal failure at Warwick Avenue, with Transport for London (TfL) [...]
Tube chaos to hit commuters next week in three-day strike by 1,200 London Underground staff May 12, 2019 Severe delays are expected to hit London’s Tube next week as around 1,200 engineering staff walk out on strike. Read more: DEBATE: Should industrial action on the Tube be banned? Union RMT said its members were going on strike after what it called “serious and damaging cuts” to preparation and inspection schedules. The three-day strike is [...]
Hello Fresh reports soaring customer numbers in first quarter May 7, 2019 Meal delivery service Hello Fresh saw active customers jump 32.2 per cent, boosting revenue to more than €400m. Revenue was up 42.1 per cent from €295.6m in the first quarter of 2018 to 420.1 this year, while Ebitda fell 20.2 per cent to €21.7m. Read more: Hello Fresh revenues soar as it draws up recipe [...]
Brunei stoning laws dropped in wake of boycott May 6, 2019 The Sultan of Brunei backed down over plans to impose draconian new laws against LGBT people on the weekend following a global public backlash. Read more: Dorchester boycott: Angel investors retreat from Park Lane dinner Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said the kingdom will not impose death by stoning laws for people convicted for having same-sex relations, saying [...]
Crossrail: Watchdog blasts bosses for ‘driving up costs’ on London’s £17.6bn delayed Elizabeth Line May 3, 2019 Crossrail bosses took decisions that drove unnecessary cost into the troubled £17.6bn railway, a report by Whitehall's spending watchdog has found. A catalogue of errors including a "failure to change course" when it was clear the project was de-railing, as well as flaws in its own commercial strategy, led to cost increases and the current uncertainty [...]
London Underground staff to stage three-day Tube strike over FA Cup final weekend May 2, 2019 London Underground staff are preparing to stage a three-day strike over the weekend of the FA cup final over safety concerns. Engineering and maintenance members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) at depots across Greater London have voted to not book on for any shifts between 17 May to 20 May over cuts [...]
London councils give ice cream vans the cold shoulder in pollution crackdown May 1, 2019 Bad news, Londoners – just as the weather warms up it appears ice cream vans could be banned from some of the capital's boroughs this summer over air pollution fears. Camden and Westminster councils are taking a range of measures to restrict the operation of the vans in an effort to reduce pollution levels on [...]
Crossrail’s 2021 delay to cost TfL an extra £1bn in lost revenue, says Moody’s May 1, 2019 The delay to Crossrail until 2021 will cost Transport for London (TfL) £1bn in lost revenue, according to influential rating agency Moody's. The £1bn figure is between £300m-£400m more than TfL had forecasted in its 2018 business plan, published after the announcement in the summer that the £17.6bn railway would not open that December as planned. Read [...]