One of the first things you notice when moving from London to live in Manchester and work in Sheffield is the differences in public transport. In London, public transport is part of everyday life. The tube and the train were part of my daily routine. Now, I’m traveling between cities a lot, but I’m using [...]
My newsreader picked up the press release this morning of the Mayor unveiling his cycling and walking programme for London. It’s quite a long package of initiatives, but stems from the recommendations from a strategic review of cycling and walking by Transport for London, so comes from Ken Livingstone the incumbent Mayor, rather than Ken [...]
The privatisation of the railways is one of the worst legacies of the Tory government. Whilst the railways are, in some metrics, improving and expanding, this is only due to increased public investment, long overdue after decades of neglect. I remember quizzing our local New Labour MP Stephen Timms during a session at school, asking [...]
On Sunday I went to visit the London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot open day, to while away a few hours whilst Fiona got on with writing her final year university dissertation. The London Transport Museum is currently closed for refurbishment until Spring 2007, and so some of their collections have been temporarily moved to their [...]
I hate to cross picket lines, but hey, I needed to get to work (which took no longer than normal).
Spotted at Euston station. A few friends have seen these trains around too – kinda spooky when you’re expecting a regular tube to turn up…
What a nonsense. Who finds the time to complain about this kind of stuff? Bendy buses are obviously quicker to board than routemasters because they have three doors not one.
The BBC have reported that Transport for London is to trial transmitter technology allowing access to wireless internet and digital radio in tube stations. The system would probably also give you a mobile phone signal. Whilst current plans are to have this system in stations only, it could be extended to include trains moving within [...]
The BBC reports that the Oystercard may soon be used as e-money, following trials in some London boroughs with libraries. The possible Oystercard-as-e-money functionality has been touted from the start of the smart card scheme, but so far there don’t seem to have been any firm plans for specific implementations. These are the implementations I’d [...]
As discussed in the comments of one of my previous Oystercard posts, London Underground is finally going to introduce Capping to the Oystercard, the BBC reports. This will mean the total daily Pre-Pay fare will be capped at the daily travelcard or bus pass rate, no matter how many journeys you take. The Pre-Pay fares [...]