Now TfL says it wants to KEEP £15-a-day London congestion charge to ‘support capital’s culture, hospitality and night-time businesses’ months after Sadiq Khan pledged to SCRAP the temporary rise TfL had claimed the rise in Congestion Charge from £11.50 to £15 was temporary Sadiq Khan previously said he would ‘negotiate with Government’ to reduce cost … Read more
Rail companies forced to cut services as pingdemic hits public transport with large numbers of staff self-isolating as TFL has to close Circle and Hammersmith and City lines over the weekend Workers in the transport sector are among vast number of those being pinged Reduced timetables have been introduced on railways across England recently Passengers … Read more
Marks & Spencer has beaten rum juggernaut Barcardi to be named the best pre-mixed mojito maker in the UK. The upmarket supermarket’s £2.10 version of the popular Cuban cocktail was awarded the top prize in a Which? taste test when it was tried against versions made by Barcardi, Asda, Aldi, and Tesco. A hugely popular … Read more
Marks & Spencer has beaten rum juggernaut Barcardi to be named the best pre-mixed mojito maker in the UK. The upmarket supermarket’s £2.10 version of the popular Cuban cocktail was awarded the top prize in a Which? taste test when it was tried against versions made by Barcardi, Asda, Aldi, and Tesco. A hugely popular … Read more
England fans travelling on the Bakerloo line are told to get to Wembley by 5.30pm due to shortage of staff who are self-isolating – and trains will stop altogether at 7pm By Shari Miller For Mailonline Published: 11:32 BST, 11 July 2021 | Updated: 11:56 BST, 11 July 2021 Fans travelling to the Euro 2020 … Read more
Transport for London will add 500 E-cycles to its fleet of pedal bikes for hire from next year. The authority will rollout the 28mph battery-powered vehicles across the capital from summer 2022. TfL said the move to electric bikes was to ‘break down the barriers that stop some people from cycling, including fitness, age and … Read more
Transport for London (TfL) today secured another £65million bailout to keep Underground, bus and train services running for another 10 days. The Government has already provided TfL £3billion in emergency funding during the pandemic as passenger numbers on Tubes and buses in London collapsed last year, decimating the operator’s finances. TfL and the Department for … Read more
London Underground customers riding the Tube along the south bank of the Thames will start paying less from Sunday as Kennington Station changes zones ahead of the autumn opening of the much-anticipated £1.2billion Northern Line extension to the iconic Battersea Power Station. Transport for London (TfL) today announced that Kennington is changing from a Zone 2 … Read more
Greensill-backed finance firm Taulia got lucrative contract with Transport for London while Boris Johnson was Mayor and Lex was a No 10 adviser It prompted renewed calls for a fuller probe into Greensill’s access to Whitehall It also brings up questions as to how he was able to benefit from his ties to PM It … Read more
Oyster card fraudster who swindled £24,000 by creating bogus travel cards using faces of elderly Turkish actors and politicians before selling them on is facing jail Efecan Gokce, 20, from Hendon, London, sold fake Oyster cards via social media Potential loss to TfL ranged from £647,000 to £2,500,000, Gokce taking £24k Found to be using four … Read more