Londoners pay highest UK house price premium to live closer to a station August 30, 2019 London home buyers are willing to pay almost 10 per cent more on a house in order to live closer to a station, according to Nationwide. The building society found Londoners are willing to pay a whopping 9.4 per cent premium for a house located 500 metres away from a station. Read more: UK house [...]
Westminster and City Hall in tense standoff after council misses Sadiq Khan’s deadline for new Oxford Street plans September 26, 2018 Westminster City Council has said it will not meet Sadiq Khan's deadline for submitting its alternative plans for Oxford Street this month, in a move that risks further heightening tensions with City Hall over the abandoned project. The Conservative-led council was working closely with Transport for London (TfL) and City Hall on the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street [...]
Westminster council derails second Sadiq Khan project with legal challenge against CS11 Cycle Superhighway August 2, 2018 Construction works on a proposed cycle superhighway at a dangerous gyratory in north-west London have come to a grinding halt after Westminster council mounted a successful legal challenge against Transport for London (TfL) – derailing its second project this year. Work on the first section of Cycle Superhighway 11, which is intended to span [...]
Mayor Sadiq Khan backs TfL working on delivering a hyperloop proposal for London May 24, 2018 Sadiq Khan has said he would back proposals for a hyperloop system in the capital, and that Transport for London (TfL) would be ready to help deliver the plans. London’s transport body does not intend to develop proposals itself at present, but the mayor said he is keeping tabs on developments, and TfL will “of [...]
Transport for London (TfL) says one billion contactless payment journeys have now been made across London’s transport network July 6, 2017 Over one billion journeys have now been made on London’s transport network using contactless payment cards, according to new figures from Transport for London (TfL). Almost £2bn has been spent by customers using pay as you go with contactless since it was introduced at the end of 2012, And TfL said that customers have saved [...]
TfL has drawn up a Tube map to help people with anxiety avoid the most claustrophobic underground stations July 5, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled a new Tube map today to show which stations and sections of its network are underground in an effort to help passengers with claustrophobia and anxiety. It said the new map will help users navigate the network more comfortably by showing routes they can take to avoid areas with [...]
Shaun Bailey pledges to make every red bus electric if he becomes London mayor August 15, 2019 Tory mayoral hopeful Shaun Bailey has pledged to make “every red bus electric” by the end of his first term if he wins next year’s mayoral election. Bailey, who hopes to replace Sadiq Khan as London’s mayor, claims that under Khan, London’s diesel and hybrid bus fleet won’t be replaced with electric models until 2037. [...]
Police kill man wearing hoax explosive device in London Bridge terrorist incident November 29, 2019 Police have shot and killed a man wearing a hoax explosive device after multiple people were injured during a terrorist incident on London Bridge this afternoon. The Metropolitan Police said “a number of people have been stabbed” during the incident, following reports circulating on social media of multiple stabbings. Met commissioner Neil Basu said one [...]
TfL warns of no Piccadilly Line service and further disruption from Tube strike across four days this week July 9, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) has today warned there will be no Piccadilly Line service if a Tube strike across four days this week goes ahead from Wednesday. TfL said there will be no service on the Piccadilly Line throughout the four-day period from 9pm on Wednesday 11 July to 1am on Saturday 14 July, including [...]
Uber and rival Ola sniffing around London’s Addison Lee July 24, 2019 Uber and Indian ride-hailing firm Ola are mulling bids for London-based taxi firm Addison Lee, which could create a powerful force in one of the world’s biggest private transport markets. Read more: Uber rival Viavan wins three year license renewal from TfL The US giant and Ola are two of “a handful” of companies talking [...]