Tube and bus fares rise in line with inflation December 3, 2013 THE COST of public transport in London will rise by an average of 3.1 per cent in January, the Mayor of London announced yesterday along with a claim that the change represents a real-term price freeze. Some tickets, including the single bus fare paid in cash and pay-as-you-go daily caps, will be kept at 2013 [...]
Letters to the Editor – 04/12 – Tube fare freeze, Best of Twitter December 3, 2013 Tube fare freeze A real terms transport fares freeze in January is welcome news. But TfL could continue to freeze fares at inflation in future years. It has an annual turnover just shy of £10bn and a capital investment programme in the tens of billions. Freezing fares at inflation for a year costs just £34m [...]
Crossrail 2 gets a boost as 95 per cent back the new railway November 28, 2013 CROSSRAIL 2, the mooted cross-city line between south west and north east London, got a boost today when it was revealed that 95 per cent of the city supports the idea. Transport for London received almost 14,000 responses to a consultation on the proposal, the vast majority of which were positive. Just two per cent [...]
Sita signs deal to turn waste into electricity November 28, 2013 WASTE management company Sita UK yesterday said that it has signed a 25-year contract with the West London Waste Authority to turn household rubbish into energy. Along with its consortium partners Scottish Widows Investment Partners and Japan’s Itochu Corporation, Sita will design, finance, build and operate infrastructure to manage up to 300,000 tonnes of waste [...]
Our innovative Heathrow plan could expand capacity without huge costs November 28, 2013 IN JUST three weeks, Sir Howard Davies and the Airports Commission will publish a shortlist of ideas to solve a problem critical to Britain’s future success – how to enhance our airport capacity. We hope that our innovative Heathrow Hub concept – which is unconnected to any proposals from the current airport owners – will [...]
French group Suez takes on west London’s waste with 25-year contract November 28, 2013 Suez Environnement subsidiary Sita UK is leading a consortium that has just signed a £760m, 25-year residual waste contract with the West London Waste Authority (WLWA). Over its duration, the contract is worth £1.4bn, and will see £244m invested into new infrastructure. Sita UK, along with partners Scottish Widows Investment Partners and Itochu Corporation, will [...]
Serco sells UK transport technology business November 27, 2013 Serco announced yesterday that it has sold its London streets maintenance and UK transport technology business to Cubic Corporation for £43.5m. The FTSE 100 outsourcer, which lost out on a contract to run prisons in South Yorkshire last week and is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for its electronic tagging work, said the [...]
Train with no seats may ease congestion November 25, 2013 BRITAIN’S railways could carry more commuters without spending billions on upgrades if trains offered third-class carriages with almost no seats, a report out yesterday claimed. Passengers could pay a fifth less to travel in a “high-density” section that would be modelled on the London Overground carriages, the paper by transport expert David Starkie for the [...]
Amazon contemplates Tube ticket offices as collection points November 22, 2013 Transport for London is said to be in talks with online retail giant Amazon to convert Tube ticket offices into "drop off" points for parcels. An Amazon Locker is already being trialled at Hammersmith station. The self-service collection points are popping up at pick-up locations across the UK, and are expected to be piloted in other Tube stations [...]
Tube set to open all night on Fridays and Saturdays November 21, 2013 THE TUBE will keep running through the night at weekends from 2015, in a plan hailed by firms as changing the face of London’s night-time economy. However, unions threatened strike action after TfL announced alongside the night Tube that it was scrapping ticket office staff. Mayor Boris Johnson said London will be “a city fit [...]