Sadiq Khan hits out at rail union over planned six-month Tube strike January 6, 2022 Sadiq Khan has hit out at the UK’s largest rail union for its planned Tube strike tomorrow, saying that the long-term industrial action will “cause further devastation” for London’s economy. London Underground staff from the The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) will walk off the job on Friday and Saturday evenings [...]
TfL and Santander to mark 10-year anniversary of Boris bikes January 7, 2020 Santander and Transport for London (TfL) are set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of so-called “Boris bikes”. The hire scheme – officially known as Santander Cycles – began in July 2010 with 315 docking stations over eight boroughs and was informally named after Prime Minister, and then mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Read more: TfL [...]
Face masks to remain compulsory on London Tube and buses July 14, 2021 Face masks will remain compulsory on London Tube and bus services despite the wider easing of lockdown measures under new plans unveiled by mayor Sadiq Khan. While the legal requirement to wear face masks will end on 19 July, the mayor said he was “not prepared to stand by and put Londoners, and our city’s [...]
Editorial: Time to stare down the militant union jeopardising the night tube November 12, 2021 So, we’re back to RMT unrest on the tube. It’s almost enough for us to pine for lockdown again. The barney is thus: in the before times, the night tube relied on around two hundred part-time staff. Those posts were scrapped during the pandemic (for blindingly obvious reasons) and those staff gradually brought in to [...]
London needs to have the powers to control its own destiny – and transport November 22, 2021 It is no longer headline news that Transport for London is facing a financial crisis. Last week the mayor of London revealed the network needed £1.7bn over the next 18 months simply to balance its books, and at least £1.3bn every year to make essential upgrades on the Tubes, trains and buses. This summer, Tfl [...]
Mayor candidate Shaun Bailey: TfL bailout was ‘inevitable’ May 11, 2020 London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has claimed that Transport for London’s (TfL) bailout bid was “inevitable” and would have happened even without the coronavirus crisis. The Tory candidate told City A.M.’s daily podcast The City View that TfL was “bankrupt, virtually” and that its bid for a £2bn bailout from central government was because of [...]
New: Waterloo & City line to operate all day by the end of November October 28, 2021 THE WATERLOO and City Line will return to a full weekday service before the end of next month. ‘The Drain,’ which runs from Waterloo to Bank, has been running a limited services around morning and evening peaks since the service was restarted after pandemic lockdowns in June. The service will run every three minutes at [...]
Crossrail to open by June 2022, says TfL boss November 16, 2021 Transport for London’s commissioner Andy Byford has announced the Crossrail will be open to the public by June 2022. Speaking at a Greater London Authority’s (GLA) transport committee meeting, Byford said: “I think we’re in a really good place to get this railway open. “We still maintain that opening window between February and June. It [...]
London’s recovery can’t be jeopardised by a lack of funding for TfL November 9, 2021 Amid the many heartening sights of London’s post-Covid-19 recovery, it’s ironic that one of the most warming was the sight of 600 lucky souls leaving the capital yesterday morning. Two flights, BA-001 and VS3, took off from Heathrow to JFK at 8:51am, on the day the US reopened its borders. As the airlines put it, [...]
Sadiq Khan: TfL settlement is not the deal we wanted June 1, 2021 London Mayor Sadiq Khan has hit out at the emergency funding package signed off today by Government and TfL to keep the capital running. The deal includes a raft of cuts across Transport for London’s operations and does not go as far as many hoped in providing a long-term settlement for the capital’s transport network. [...]