Call for walking commuter rebate April 10, 2014 London workers who skip their commute once a week could be handed a refund of up to £310.50 on their season ticket, under a proposal set out yesterday. Roger Evans, a Conservative member of the Greater London Assembly, has sent plans to TfL that call for cash rebates for commuters who underuse their season ticket [...]
Londoners who skip the commute once a week could be refunded £310 a year April 10, 2014 London workers who skip their commute once a week could be handed a refund of up to £310.50 on their season ticket from next year, under a proposal set out today. Roger Evans, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, believes commuters who underuse their travelcard by walking, cycling or working from home should be [...]
Fast-drying concrete cost Victoria Line passengers 100,000 hours, says TfL April 7, 2014 The spillage of some fast-setting concrete saw London's Victoria Line halted in January this year, as a signal room was flooded with the stuff. “We understand that a foot of concrete burst into the control room having been poured into an escalator void,” a spokesman for the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, [...]
Crossrail nears its final stretch March 31, 2014 The head of London’s newest railway hopes he sets a precedent for other big projects AS CONSTRUCTION on London’s newest railway reached the halfway point earlier this year, a steady stream of hard hat-wearing politicians ventured into the tunnels to be seen backing Europe’s biggest infrastructure project. Crossrail boss Andrew Wolstenholme, meanwhile, has a map [...]
Businesses call for another Thames bridge in the east March 25, 2014 LONDON firms and politicians yesterday renewed calls for a new Thames bridge to be built in the east of the city, after decades of delays and cancellations. Businesses including Leyton Orient football club signed a letter to the Mayor of London yesterday asking him to commit to a road crossing at Gallions Reach. Boris Johnson [...]
Introducing: the designs of the year March 18, 2014 The ingenious creations that are set to define tomorrow’s world MOST museum shows look back to the past. With flying cars, floating schools and wheelchairs that grow with the owner, this one is all about the future. Next week the seventh Designs of the Year exhibition opens at the Design Museum, and the broad selection [...]
Contactless payments rising as TfL and retailers drive adoption March 12, 2014 CONTACTLESS payments on the high street jumped nearly 300 per cent last year, according to figures from Visa yesterday. Visa Europe’s director of contactless Mark Austin said that the 94.3m payments had been spurred by Transport for London’s use of contactless on buses last year and the increasing numbers of retailers installing terminals. Adoption from [...]
French billionaire brings electric car sharing to London March 12, 2014 Londoners will from next year be able to hire an electric car for 15 minutes at a time, along the lines of the Boris Bike scheme, under plans unveiled by French industrialist Vincent Bollore today. Bollore, the company that will take over the existing Source London network of 1,500 electric charging points from TfL and [...]
French billionaire brings electric car sharing to London March 12, 2014 Londoners will from next year be able to hire an electric car for 15 minutes at a time, along the lines of the Boris Bike scheme, under plans unveiled by French industrialist Vincent Bollore today. Bollore, the company that will take over the existing Source London network of 1,500 electric charging points from TfL and [...]
Video: The future of driverless transport is hiding at Heathrow March 3, 2014 Driverless vehicles are either the future of motoring or the death knell for public transport, depending on whether you take your travel news from Google or the RMT. But tucked away beyond domestic arrivals at Heathrow is a driverless transport network that has been running successfully for nearly three years and is the first of [...]