TfL drivers on Central and Victoria tube lines to strike EVERY Friday and Saturday until June 2022 December 23, 2021 London Underground drivers plan to strike every weekend for the next six months, until June 2022, as a row over night tube rotas intensifies. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said this evening that its members will stage overnight walkouts on the Central and Victoria lines from 8.30pm every Fridays and Saturdays until June [...]
RMT pushes ahead with strikes despite TfL pleas to support booster campaign December 17, 2021 Rail union RMT is going ahead with strikes this weekend despite millions of Londoners racing to get Covid-19 boosters in the run up to Christmas.
Rail fares to go up 3.8 per cent from March, adding to increasing living costs December 17, 2021 The Department for Transport announced today that from March rail fares will go up 3.8 per cent, 3.3 per cent less than the current price index (RPI) of 7.1 per cent. The government’s decision will add to the increasing costs of living, fuelled by a 5.1 per cent hike in inflation rates – the highest [...]
TfL funding crisis: Sadiq Khan forced to cut 500 Tube station jobs December 7, 2021 Sadiq Khan is set to make large job cuts at London Tube stations in a bid to save cash as Transport for London’s (TfL) funding crisis starts to bite. Between 500 and 600 jobs at Tube stations across London are set to be axed, with larger central London stations to absorb the largest cuts. City [...]
Ministers postpone rail fare increase following HS2 cuts backlash December 2, 2021 A UK Government announcement regarding a 3.8 per cent increase in rail fares from March was postponed last week following the backlash caused by the slashing of rail investments in the north. Rail fares in England and Wales will see the biggest increase in nine years, the Guardian reported exclusively after seeing leaked documents. A [...]
London’s transport system must not be sacrificed on the altar of ‘levelling up’ November 30, 2021 Dare to dream: Crossrail might be about to arrive. Delay after demoralising delay pushed back the original 2018 opening, but Transport for London has hailed the “significant milestone” of the start of trial operations. Thousands of volunteers will help TfL test the £19bn railway over the coming months, with the aim of finally opening the [...]
George Osborne calls for Sadiq Khan to have more powers over TfL November 29, 2021 Sadiq Khan should be given more powers by central government to run Transport for London (TfL), former chancellor George Osborne has said. Osborne yesterday said the government should stop “trying to micromanage how [Khan] runs TfL” and “let him take responsibility”. Khan and the Department for Transport are currently locked in negotiations over a fresh [...]
Rail unions to protest outside parliament in bid for more TfL funding November 29, 2021 Transport unions will next week stage protests outside parliament to warn that the capital will “grind to a halt” without long-term financial help for Transport for London (TfL). Wednesday’s protest will see members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) rally against the government’s refusal to offer a long-term funding [...]
Tube strike happening now: Victoria, Central, Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines currently all impacted November 26, 2021 Commuter chaos is expected in central London this morning as a tube strike for five lines started at 4.30am today. The Victoria, Central, Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly line are all affected as RMT drivers are urged not to clock in for work today. TfL said the strike would result in “little or no service in [...]
Another strike: Londoners face severe tube disruption on 26-28 November, 3-5, 10-12, 17-18 December November 22, 2021 Transport for London (TfL) is hitting back at the strike action planned by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), warning that commuters could face severe disruptions because of the “unnecessary strikes”. If going ahead, the strikes – which will disrupt services on two days and eight nights between 26 November and [...]