Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to close 12 miles of roads for Car Free Day 2019 June 20, 2019 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is set to close 12.3 miles of roads in the capital for Car Free Day 2019. Khan’s road closures will span 18 London boroughs including major roads around Tower Bridge, London Bridge and the City of London for the event on Sunday 22, September. Read more: 500 London roads breach [...]
RMT rail union accuses Sadiq Khan of Tory cuts ‘stitch up’ June 20, 2019 The RMT rail union has accused Sadiq Khan of carrying out “Tory cuts to the Tube” as it protests outside City Hall this morning. The union claims that Transport for London (TfL), which Khan chairs, has “given up” on restoring central government funding to the transport body. Read more: Tube strike action on the cards [...]
City travel startup Duffel bags $21.5m round from Benchmark June 19, 2019 Travel booking software startup Duffel today closed a $21.5m (£17.1m) in a series A funding round led by Snap and Uber-backer Benchmark. Blossom Capital also participated, as well as existing investor Index Ventures. The startup has raised $26.2m to date. “The travel industry is underpinned by archaic software and processes that are fundamentally prohibitive for [...]
New London cycleway to link Tower Bridge and Greenwich June 19, 2019 One of London’s most dangerous roundabouts is to be transformed as part of a new £54m cycleway in south-east London. Construction on Cycleway 4, which will run between the iconic Tower Bridge and Greenwich, will start next month. Read more: Sadiq Khan slams Westminster council for pulling out of £80m Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans The [...]
Commuter misery: Severe delays hit two Tube lines June 19, 2019 Severe delays on the District Line and Jubilee Line left Underground commuters with the prospect of a hellish commute to work this morning. Read more: 10,000 Tube workers balloted on summer strike A signal failure at East Putney caused severe delays between Wimbledon and Earl’s Court on the District Line, despite a good service running [...]
South Western Railway strike: Thousands hit by industrial action June 18, 2019 Commuters faced the first of five days of disruption as a South Western Railway strike hit trains to and from London Waterloo station today. Passengers face rush hour chaos for the rest of the week and into the weekend on the route after workers with the Rail, Mairitme and Transport Union (RMT) walked out over [...]
Heathrow airport reveals third runway ‘masterplan’ June 18, 2019 The masterplan for Heathrow’s £14bn third runway will be revealed to the public for the first time today, alongside its largest-ever consultation into the project. The airport will reveal how it plans to reduce emissions and noise – two areas that campaigners have circled out as areas of concern – as well as a proposed [...]
Small steps to giant leaps: The new space age is just beginning June 18, 2019 Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, possibly one of the most important moments in human history. That one small step was not only a giant leap for mankind, it also became a giant leap for technological innovation, as President John F. Kennedy’s mission to put a man on the moon, announced [...]
Let London take back control of its finances June 18, 2019 As many a City A.M. reader will know, London is different from the rest of the UK in a variety of ways – and not just in terms of how it votes, its cultural mix, or its size and complexity. There is also the amount of tax that London’s citizens and businesses pay. Recent figures [...]
Nightmare at 30,000 feet: can hypnotherapy cure a fear of flying? June 17, 2019 I haven’t always been an anxious person. In fact, I was an utterly fearless child, with a predilection for dumb and dangerous stunts, like doing somersaults off the roof of our garden shed. I can’t identify exactly when my outlook shifted, but somewhere in the crucible of puberty and secondary school a profoundly neurotic fear [...]