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Oyster Milk
Transport For London has announced today that’s it’s planning to introduce an ‘e-money’ element to the Oyster card. The idea being that Oyster Card holders will be able to use them to “buy newspapers...
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Tube 2.0 (or Tuber)
Over the years there have been many attempts to introduce the rather shy, furtive and, let’s face it, constantly tardy London Underground system to the shiny, brash and only occasionally unstable...
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Pay As You Go Pedal Power!
Hot on the heels of the pay as you go pups comes brilliant news that Ken Livingstone has ordered a feasibility study into a pay as you go bike scheme for London. We were in Paris the other week and...
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DLR Hits 20 Years
That’s right, the DLR has been going for, if you can believe it, 20 years today. This seems like forever for this Londonista’s favourite mode of transport around London. So where did it all start?...
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Ken Announces Bike Hire Scheme
Yesterday, Ken announced that London will have a city bike hire scheme, a la Vélib’ in Paris, with up to 6,000 bikes located across docking stations every 300m. Hooray! This major investment in...
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Tube Scammer Complains His Way To Conviction
A former magistrate with a personality disorder and apparently plenty of time on his hands, scammed the London Underground out of £5,000. Between 2003 and 2006, 33-year-old Terrance Jolley made over...
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Oyster Card Gets Cracked
As far as fare cards go, the tap-in-tap-out system of Oyster is pretty simple and, barring someone nicking it on its way back to your pocket, pretty secure. But that latter thought might be disproven...
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Have Data, Will Travel
Those slightly addle-eyed folk who rant about Government conspiracies, claim that we’re all microchipped at birth and believe the Oyster card is a sinister scheme to track our movements may be feeling...
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Oysters Shucked
Confounded to discover that your Oyster card was knackered when you tried to hop on the Tube this morning? You’re not the only one. A major card fault hit the system on Saturday morning, meaning that...
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Another Bad Day For Oyster, Then
You wait ages for a story about Transport for London (TfL), and then loads come along at once. After the earth-shattering news that TfL staff sometimes use taxis (*clutch at pearls*), and heaps of...
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Update On New West London Stations
Wood Lane tube taken from a passing H&C train this morning After a farcical delay, the new mainline station at Shepherd’s Bush has been given an opening date of 28th September. As...
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Judgment Day For Transport Projects
Yesterday we were so bemused by the prolix perambulations in Boris’ Way To Go transport document that we neglected to consider the very real probability of significant cuts to long-planned transport...
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And Now A Toast To Gay-Friendliness
Lloyds TSB ‘top gay employer’ Every year gay campaign group/charity Stonewall publishes its list of top 100 gay-friendly employers. London has always done quite well on the lists, for three reasons:...
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The London Blogger Interviews #1: Annie Mole
London brims with fantastic bloggers dishing out the inside scoop on aspects of our city which inspire them, bringing to life and documenting things which might otherwise be missed. As fellow London...
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No Transport For London
At 08.30 this morning TfL issued a winter weather travel advisory email probably way too late for any commuter presumably already standing in snow and swearing at bus stops or getting turned away from...
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What Could London Do With £94m?
Image by Homemade in the Londonist Flickr pool. Buy 1080 (and a half) Teslas. Or nearly 59 million single Zone 1 fares. Or even taxi fares for Boris Johnson for the next 23,500 years. According to...
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London Bus Service Reviewed
Photo by historicist from the Londonist flickr photopool. Only a week after “debendyficiation” of the streets of the capital started on route 507, and as passengers of said route are already asking...
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Tube Lines Boss Says Sorry
Photo by Andy Wilkes Hot on the heels of the recent news that the Jubilee Line weekend closures will extend well into 2010, Tube Lines boss Dean Finch has apologised for the delays. Evidently wilting...
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New Underground Moquette Unveiled
Remember that competition to design a fabric for seats on the Underground? Well, the winner has been announced. London company WallaceSewell (responsible for the retro-70s moquette on Overground...
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Cycle Hire: Casual Use Launches Today
Update: As one of our commenters alluded to, a “system error” this morning affected a number of docking stations, where neither registered nor casual users able to rent the bikes (although users with...
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