London mayoral election 2016: How Sadiq Khan, Caroline Pidgeon and Sian Berry will cut transport costs January 6, 2016 Travel costs are likely to be an important topic in the run-up to this year's London mayoral election, as a substantial chunk of the capital's workers rely on the capital's underground, DLR, overground and TfL rail services to get around. The Lib Dems, Labour and Greens have all announced policies which will cut travel costs in their bid to [...]
A bigger London can be an even better London January 5, 2016 London is already Europe’s largest city, with a population in excess of 8.6m. The Greater London Authority expects this figure to climb to 11.3m over the next 25 years, but a fascinating report by Oxford Economics says that the GLA has underestimated the continuing boom, and that our city’s population will reach 12m by 2050. The [...]
Beware mayoral wannabes pledging a Tube fare freeze: The numbers don’t stack up January 5, 2016 While most resolutions – especially those involving regular gym attendance – do not last beyond January, there is one New Year tradition that is guaranteed to be with us for the whole year: Transport for London’s annual fare increase. Londoners will be familiar with the routine. Sometime between singing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s [...]
Transport for London rezoning the Tube map: Eight underground, rail and DLR stations including Stratford and West Ham changed from Zone 3 to Zone 2/3 January 4, 2016 Much like the rest of us, Transport for London is making some changes in the new year, with a new look for parts of the Tube map and a cheaper commute for as many as 100,000 east London passengers. Eight stations in east London have just been rezoned from Zone 3 to Zone 2/3 – [...]
Official figures are underestimating London’s population growth: Housing, transport and general infrastructure can’t keep up January 4, 2016 Official estimates for London's population growth are wide of the mark, a new report claims, with the capital requiring "major improvement" if it is going to meet the challenges of its swelling number of residents. Research by consultancy Atkins, in partnership with Oxford Economics and the Centre for London, claims that London will become home to 12m people by [...]
Armed police bring Farringdon Road to standstill January 4, 2016 Farringdon Road was brought to a standstill after an operation by armed police at around lunch time today. Several police vehicles were involved in stopping a vehicle on the road in east London and three men have been arrested in the pre-planned operation. The incident is not terror related, the Metropolitan Police have said. The road, [...]
London buses go greener in 2016, as successful bids for Department for Transport fund revealed January 3, 2016 Fifty buses in London will be kitted out with technology designed to cut harmful emissions by up to 90 per cent, after successful bids for a Department for Transport fund were revealed today. The Clean Bus Technology Fund 2015, which local councils were invited to bid for grants from in September of last year, will dish [...]
Night Tube 2016? Transport for London confident an agreement will be reached with driver unions January 3, 2016 A Transport for London boss has expressed confidence that an ongoing disagreement with drivers could finally be resolved, leading to the long-delayed Night Tube finally launching in London in 2016. Some headway is expected to be made, according to director of customer experience Shashi Verma, speaking to ITV News. Talks between TfL and driver unions have so far failed. The [...]
The biggest gaffes of 2015: Boris Johnson Vs child, Jeremy Clarkson’s clanger, fat fingers and s*** trains. December 31, 2015 The business boo boos, fantastic fubars and ghastly gaffes that made us groan and giggle this year were in some cases a little more serious than merely misplaced word or comment. And don't even get us started on VW's emissions cheating. Here are the gaffes that stuck with us in 2015. 1. Security snafus There was [...]
New Year’s Eve London fireworks: Met to deploy huge numbers of armed police amid heightened security fears December 31, 2015 London's streets will see a "heightened police presence" tonight during New Year's Eve celebrations, including what is thought to be a huge number of armed officers. Some 3,000 Met officers will be on duty in central London as hundreds of thousands of the city's residents and tourists make their way to the river to watch the annual [...]