Coronavirus: How safe is the post-lockdown commute to work? August 4, 2020 After more than four months of lockdown Londoners are beginning to return to the office as public transport operators take measures to make the once-daily commute as safe as possible from coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave employers “more discretion” from 1 August to bring back their staff if it was safe to do so. [...]
Taxi drivers, bus drivers and security guards most at risk from Covid-19 May 11, 2020 Security guards, taxi drivers and bus drivers are the professions most at risk from dying from Covid-19, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The new figures also revealed that health workers had no increased risk of dying from coronavirus, but that care workers and home carers had “significantly raised rates [...]
AJ Bell doubles net inflows as customers flock to its plaform January 21, 2021 AJ Bell doubled its net inflows in the first quarter as it continued to attract new customers to its platform. In a trading update the investment platform said total net inflows in the first quarter reached £1.6bn, double the level reported in the same period last year. Shares in the investment platofrm dipped 0.86 per [...]
Uber’s back and its rivals will just have to deal with it September 30, 2020 Having scraped by on short-term “emergency licences” for about two years, Uber, the California-based ride-sharing app provider, has been given a “proper” licence to operate in London again, after winning in a crucial appeals case this week. For now, this marks the end of two years of legal limbo. In 2017, Transport for London (TfL) [...]
Will the new ultra-low emission zone affect your house price? October 21, 2021 The signs are up, the maps have been published – it’s ULEZ time. On Monday, the expanded ultra-low emission zone kicks in, casting a warm glow of low emissions not just over Westminster, but every surrounding neighbourhood within the often-smelly, usually-congested north circular. According to one logistics company, this long-planned expansion may mean that getting [...]
London coronavirus outbreak: Tube travel plunges 70 per cent March 20, 2020 The number of Londoners taking the Tube has plummeted 70 per cent amid the coronavirus outbreak, Transport for London (TfL) confirmed today. The number of London Underground commuters will fall even further as people are urged not to take public transport, TfL also warned. Bus journeys have fallen 40 per cent too, London’s transport body [...]
Railways introduce crowd control measures to help stop coronavirus spread May 18, 2020 Rail and Tube chiefs today put in place crowd control measures at stations around the UK and added more train services amid fears overcrowding could help spread coronavirus. Last Sunday Prime Minister Boris Johnson encouraged those who could not work from home to go back to work in an easing of the coronavirus lockdown. Network [...]
Mayor of London election to still go ahead in May January 6, 2021 The London mayor election is set to go ahead as planned in May, the government has confirmed. The election, along with a swathe of other local elections across the country, were postponed for a year last May due to Covid-19. The election will pit incumbent Labour mayor Sadiq Khan against Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey. The [...]
Working from home u-turn falls on deaf ears as more staff head back to offices September 30, 2020 Employees are heading back to their workplaces in greater numbers around the UK despite Boris Johnson’s working from home u-turn last week, new data has shown. According to data specialists Huq Industries, the rate at which workers are returning to their offices since the PM’s announcement has actually picked up in four of the six [...]
Khan and Bailey clash over congestion charge hike May 21, 2020 A row has erupted between Sadiq Khan and one of his challengers to be the next Mayor of London over the conditions of the government’s bailout of struggling Transport for London. Yesterday, the Mayor said that the government had forced him to reinstate and expand the congestion charge as a condition of the £1.6bn rescue [...]