Central Line still hit by delays after derailed train and person on the track April 21, 2015 Central Line travellers faced more delays during the evening rush hour, as service resumed with severe delays following the derailing of an engineers' train in the early hours of this morning and a person on the track in the middle of the afternoon. The morning rush hour was thrown into chaos after the train derailed [...]
It’s not just commuters who are suffering due to London travel chaos April 14, 2015 For the last six months, reports of “travel chaos” have dominated London’s headlines, illustrating the misery besetting commuters in the capital. As timetables are torn up, stationary trains are held outside stations, and commuters are forced to take alternative routes to work, businesses across London are feeling the impact just as keenly as travellers. We [...]
Tube delays on Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines continue for second day April 14, 2015 Commuters faced a second day of delays on the Tube as the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines suffered severe delays caused by a signal failure at Edgware Road. Another signalling fault at Gunnersbury also caused delays on the Overground and District line. The latest from Transport for London (TfL) advised: Circle line: Severe delays [...]
Transport for London spends £3m on counselling stressed-out workers April 13, 2015 Between 2010 and 2014, Transport for London (TfL) spent £3m on counselling employees suffering from stress-related problems such as anxiety and depression, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed. The FoI request, made by capital-focused business side LondonLovesBusiness.com, revealed a total of 4,700 members of staff had to be given professional help during the [...]
London should embrace new technology to make car ownership pointless April 8, 2015 London could lead a revolution in car use and car ownership over the next decade, by divorcing the two. It may soon be unnecessary to own a car to secure the full benefits of car ownership, due to a combination of continued improvement in public transport, the surge in app-based car hire services, and the [...]
Bad news if you travel through Elephant & Castle – prepare for commuter disruption for the next year March 31, 2015 If you travel through Elephant & Castle to get to work, prepare yourselves for more than a year of disruption as part of the Crossrail for Bikes project gets underway. The northern roundabout at the south London junction is being overhauled by Transport for London to provide two-way traffic, dedicated cycle lanes and safer pedestrian [...]
Southwark Council calls for 50pc compensation for delays from London Bridge March 31, 2015 Commuters grappling with the travel chaos at London Bridge should receive an automatic 50 per cent refund if their train is late, a London council has said. Southwark Council is writing to the Department of Transport to ask for a compensation scheme to be set up after widespread problems at the station, which is [...]
High Court ruling on taximeters could spell the end for Uber as we know it March 28, 2015 An application by Transport for London (TfL) to the High Court could put the brakes on Uber services in London, and it all comes down to taximeters. These are the small boxes with which taxi drivers calculate the fare over the course of a journey, and the law states that in London they can only [...]
Plans for a Bakerloo line extension through Lewisham, Camberwell and Beckenham have huge support from south Londoners following consultation March 27, 2015 Londoners have given overwhelming support to long-awaited plans for extending the Bakerloo line further into south London from Elephant Castle. Transport for London has received one of its largest-ever responses to a consultation, which is proposing the extension of the Tube to Lewisham, and potentially even as far as Hayes. Some 96 per cent of the [...]
Focus On Highgate: Why this north west suburb has been the garden of London for 300 years March 26, 2015 Most areas in London have been through good times and bad times. But the gentrification cycle seems to have completely passed Highgate by. The extraordinarily green suburb of north west London has remained a constant spot of affluence in the capital and it remains for many the epitome of the desirable London village. How has [...]