The East London Line extension to Clapham Junction is living up to its title of the “M25 of rail”, as it grinds to a halt just three days after opening. Signalling failures at Peckham Rye left Overground trains suspended for an hour between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction on Tuesday…
The East London line will see longer and more frequent trains under a new 10 year plan revealed on Tuesday by Transport for London, despite an expected cut of more than £1bn in government funds by 2014. Details of the plan included doubling road investment to £3.8bn over the next…
The cyclist killed on Thursday morning on Commerical Road has been named as Javed Sumbal, a local sandwich courier who was working to fund his MBA. Sumbal was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred at 8.20am. He was on his first round of the day delivering…
Two men from Tower Hamlets have been named as the victims of a fatal car crash that took place on the M1 on Monday morning. Mizanur Rahman, 24, and Gulzar Ahmed, 22, both from Stepney Green, were named by friends as the driver and passenger killed in a collision near…
Almost a fifth of commuters admit to missing their station after falling asleep, according to a new survey by train company Southern. However, the same research showed that one in 10 commuters deliberately choose to travel by train so they can take cat naps. Southern serves commuters travelling between Croydon…
Clapham may seem a world away from Whitechapel but it is now a matter of half an hour as the London Overground network is extended. From December 9, the East London Line has been extended to Clapham Junction from Surrey Quays via: Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham…
Lewisham Cyclists have welcomed calls by the London Assembly’s Transport Committee for Boris Johnson to double spending on cycling. The group’s chair, Roger Stocker, said: ”It is an interesting report. The recommendation for more spend to go specifically to cyclng is crucial.” The Assembly report, released on November 21, says…
Lewisham’s cyclists have expressed dismay after TfL abandoned plans to bring the Cycle Superhighway network to central Lewisham. Cycle Superhighway 5 will now only run as far as New Cross where it will end at a busy traffic bottleneck. Roger Stocker, Chair of Lewisham Cyclists said: “To finish the Superhighway…
Despite 29 per cent of the available bikes being in Tower Hamlets, only 13.5 per cent of the bikes hired in the first two months of the extension were from the borough. The figures come from a Freedom of Information request by the news organisation MayorWatch. The borough council spent…
The tube drivers’ union has called on TfL and Boris Johnson to “get their act together” after they delivered widely conflicting statements over plans for driverless Underground trains. Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday, the Mayor of London repeated his election pledge that he would press on with plans…
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