From TfL Tube strike and VJ 70 Day to Google’s transformation and London’s Plague pits: Here’s what got us talking this week August 15, 2015 A tennis player got fined for not playing cricket. The Labour leadership contest turned nasty. And somewhere in Covent Garden was the sound of the house price market going super-sonic. Here's what got us talking this week 1. We are pretty tight when it comes to tipping Yep, turns out we're pretty stingy. But not [...]
Tube strike 2015: Drivers will strike over Night Tube after turning down this pay deal from TfL July 6, 2015 A 24-hour strike by Tube drivers planned for Wednesday is expected to go ahead, causing disruption to millions of Londoners, after a "final" pay offer was turned down. A new "final" offer of a two per cent pay rise this year, £2,000 for drivers and £500 for other staff working on the Night Tube services, was put forward [...]
August 2015 TfL Tube strike: Tube union demands would “cost TfL £1.4bn” – and it’s commuters who’ll pay August 12, 2015 The demands being made by the four unions in the Night Tube dispute would cost £1.4bn over the next eight years, forcing Tube fares up, TfL has claimed. RMT, TSSA, Aslef and Unite have been leading industrial action for the last few weeks over the introduction of the 24-hour service, seeking a number of [...]
TSSA union members vote in favour of more industrial action November 29, 2016 London Underground workers in the TSSA union have voted in favour of striking, the union announced today. In a ballot of 237 members, with 235 valid papers returned, 159, or 67.7 per cent, voted in favour of a strike, with 76 – 32.3 per cent – voting against. When asked whether they would be prepared [...]
TfL Tube strike: Talks over Night Tube action hit the buffers after RMT complains of serious breaches of safety July 20, 2015 Crunch talks between trade unions and London Underground have ground to a halt, with just two weeks left to avert a second mass walk-out of the summer. Unions had been due to resume talks this morning, yet the RMT shelved the negotiations after complaining of “serious breaches of safety protocols” on the Tube over [...]
From TfL Tube strike and Tom Hayes’ Libor conviction to Quindell and Fantasy Football: Here’s what got us talking this week August 7, 2015 There were singing farmers. There was a decapitated bus. And suddenly, in North Korea, there was a new time zone. Here's what got us talking this week 1) London was (over) grounded The second strike in two months brought London's Tube network to a halt, and while that meant we all had to [...]
Here’s how one MP thinks strikes like the Southern rail ones can be avoided in the future December 14, 2016 Transport secretary Chris Grayling has been mulling over a range of measures to stop the Southern rail crisis being repeated in the future. And Chris Philp, MP for Croydon South, thinks he just might have the answer. Or at least part of it. The MP has laid out proposals for three major changes to legislation he [...]
Tube strike August 2015 TfL: Travel advice for Wednesday and Thursday – no Tube, but DLR, London Overground, trams, rail and 250 extra buses will run August 4, 2015 The Tube strike is on after unions rejected the latest pay offer from TfL, and that means you're likely to run into problems if you're travelling in London on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Here's everything you need to know to prepare and plan for your journey. When? The Tube will stop running from 6.30pm [...]
TfL Tube strike 2015: Uber surge pricing triples fares as travellers face transport chaos July 9, 2015 The price of getting an Uber has rocketed as London's Tube network was brought to a standstill by strike action. The ride-booking app introduces surge pricing during times of high demand, and the basic fare increased as much as 2.9 times the cost on an average day after the strike began during yesterday evening's rush [...]
Londoners face Christmas travel headache as Paddington closes, Moorgate experiences disruption and M1 shuts down December 24, 2016 Engineering works on railways across the country have left passengers facing disruption, with London one of the most badly affected areas. There are no trains to and from Paddington until next Thursday to make way for Crossrail work, while severe disruption is expected between Finsbury Park and Moorgate until lunchtime at the earliest due to an electricity fault. A number of [...]