MOST OF US IN London use the wheeled transport which Transport for London (TfL) provides: buses, Tubes and trains. However, Tfl is now reminding us that on 20th and 21st May they will be running a number of recreational walks which ...

THE CHARITY Human Appeal has predicted that 2017 will be another year of death in the Middle East and Mediterranean. The gloomy assessment came after the bodies of 28 refugees were discovered off the coast of Libya in mid-April. Four innocent ...

CRITICISM HAS RAINED down on Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP, who has announced the route of a new Lower Thames crossing. The Government will be going ahead with “Option C”: a new tunnel going under Green Belt land and crossing ...

A FREEDOM OF Information request from BBC London has uncovered figures which show that London Underground (LU) is responsible for 360 station closures in 2016 – that’s just under one a day throughout the year. LU bosses are quick to ...

LONDONERS ARE looking forward to a break over the Easter weekend – and fortunately most of the public transport network will be available to take you round the capital. However, there are a few exceptions where services will be closed ...

A NEW REPORT from the London Assembly Transport Committee has suggested radical new measures be taken to curb traffic in London. The report’s been welcomed by London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, Val Shawcross. She wants to see City Hall being “smarter ...

TALKS ARE BEING held at ACAS today, Saturday, in an attempt to halt a 24 hour strike on London Underground (LU), due to begin on Sunday evening. The strike would involve members of the RMT union and members of the Transport ...

A CANADIAN research team has found that the rate of dementia in the population is higher among those who live near busy roads. The research followed a massive sample – nearly two million people – in Ontario over eleven years ...

We’ve all heard that race hate crimes have increased since the “Brexit” vote in the referendum – and now the British Transport Police have confirmed the trend. The Transport Police recorded 119 incidents which included allegations of racist abuse on ...

There are few women cycling in Tower Hamlets – but a new project is set to change all that in the coming months. The Royal Foundation of St. Katharine has been awarded a TfL Cycling Grant, which will fund a ...