London travel disruption: Bond Street station closed and no service on Jubilee Line between Waterloo and Finchley Road due to person on the track June 13, 2016 Bond Street station is closed this afternoon due to a person on the tracks. The station was evacuated shortly after 3pm when a person jumped onto the Jubilee Line track. There is currently no service on the Jubilee Line going in both directions between Waterloo and Finchley Road stations because of the incident, and there are severe delays [...]
Sadiq Khan is cracking down on “unhealthy” body image adverts across TfL properties June 13, 2016 London mayor Sadiq Khan will ban adverts featuring unrealistic, or unhealthy, body shapes from next month. Following up on a pledge from his mayoral campaign, Khan has issued a new advertising policy for all ads submitted to TfL in tube and bus stations. He has also asked TfL to establish a steering group featuring the firms [...]
Sadiq Khan is cracking down on “unhealthy” body image transport adverts across TfL’s estate June 13, 2016 NULL
Now you can get Twitter alerts directly when your Tube line is delayed June 9, 2016 Want to know when there's delays on your Tube line before you head to work? Now you can get simple direct updates on delays and any other issues with services direct to your phone via Twitter, making the faff of searching and checking updates obsolete. Transport for London (TfL) has teamed up with Twitter to deliver [...]
Here’s how much it actually cost TfL to rebrand Crossrail as The Elizabeth Line June 9, 2016 When Transport for London (TfL) announced back in February that it was rebranding Crossrail as The Elizabeth Line, eyes across the capital were rolled. Another lame corporate rebrand, probably costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, right? Wrong, apparently. City Metric, an arm of the New Statesman, submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to find [...]
London mayor Khan faces cross-party fury over fare freeze pledge June 8, 2016 London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing cross-party fury after it emerged that a much-vaunted freeze on TfL fares would exclude large numbers of tickets. A four-year freeze on fares was the flagship policy in Khan's plans for London, with the former Tooting MP stating in his manifesto that “Londoners won't pay a penny for more [...]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says first savings found to fund his fares freeze, but some tickets will be excluded June 8, 2016 A major efficiency savings programme to enable fares on Transport for London services to be frozen until 2020 has been announced by the Mayor of London, but not all travel costs are set to be included. Sadiq Khan and London’s transport commissioner, Mike Brown, announced the plans which will allow the freeze to come into force without hitting [...]
Are Sadiq Khan’s planning reforms viable? June 6, 2016 After just two weeks in office as the new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan revealed his plans to deal with the capital’s housing crisis and said the previous mayor had “left the cupboard bare” when it comes to delivering affordable housing. Khan says he will be working with the government to actively identify surplus public [...]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan vows to tackle air pollution as worrying new figures reveal capital’s health inequalities June 6, 2016 New figures that lay bare the extent of London's air pollution has sparked a promised crackdown by the Mayor of London. Data published today revealed that Londoners living in the capital’s most deprived boroughs are significantly more likely to die of lung cancer, asthma and other lung diseases than those who live in more affluent parts [...]
Focus On Southfields: This south west London suburb is bucking the London property trend ahead of Wimbledon June 2, 2016 If you went down to Southfields today, you’d be in for a big surprise. Buying London property is hardly a teddy bear’s picnic at the best of times, but as buyers rush to the leafier outskirts in search of more affordable property, outer boroughs that were once overlooked are finding they’re in high demand. London [...]