Now TfL wants to KEEP £15-a-day London congestion charge after Sadiq Khan pledged to SCRAP rise

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

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

Boris bikes go ELECTRIC: TfL will add 500 E-cycles

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

Covid UK: Transport for London gets £65m MORE taxpayer’s cash for another 10 days

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

Covid UK: Transport for London gets £65m MORE taxpayer’s cash for another 10 days

Transport for London (TfL) has secured another £65million in taxpayer’s cash to keep Underground, bus and train services running for another 10 days on top of the £3billion bailout already granted during the pandemic. An agreement between TfL and the Department for Transport (DfT) ensures that public transport can continue operating in London until May … Read more

Northern Line extension fuels property boom as Kennington becomes Zone 1/2

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 TfL while Boris Johnson was Mayor

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 faces jail after swindling £24k with fake travel cards

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

Oyster card fraudster swindled £24,000 by creating bogus travel cards

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

Covid UK: London bus drivers’ lives could have been saved if safety measures introduced earlier

Enforcing an earlier lockdown would have saved the lives of London‘s bus drivers who died from Covid-19, an independent review has concluded. The study, carried out by University College London (UCL), found that some of the deaths of workers in March 2020 ‘would not have happened’ if restrictions had been implemented sooner.  The report, which was commissioned … Read more