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How far will the Met go to please its customers? 23 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
A police surveillance picture showing Jenny Jones making off with the loot? Like most public services, the modern day Metropolitan Police places huge emphasis on customer satisfaction, so Scotland Ya...
Ethical water company donates 43,000 bottles to Tube passengers 22 Aug 2013 | 12:57 pm
With temperatures soaring once more, Tube passengers are being reminded of the need to stay cool and carry a bottle of water with them. Transport for London has teamed up with ethical water company B...
City Hall Tories renew strike reform calls ahead of London Overground disruption 22 Aug 2013 | 12:56 pm
Conservative members of the London Assembly have renewed calls for reforms to strike laws, just days before a planned strike by London Overground staff is due to go ahead. Last week The RMT union ann...
Ticket office closures could boost access to the Police 20 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
Renewed talk of London Underground ticket office closures offers a potentially exciting possibility for squeezing value from our public estate which I think deserves some consideration. During the ea...
TfL considers axing cash bus fares after usage falls below 1% 19 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
Transport for London is consulting on proposals to scrap cash fares on buses. Since the introduction of Oyster in 2003, the number of passengers paying in cash has fallen from 20 percent to less than...
Incoherent and confused, Sadiq Khan’s message is unworthy of a Mayor 18 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
A call for lower fares but more transport spending, a campaign headlined “The Great Tory Train Robbery” which opens with the complaint that “bus journeys have gone up” and the repetition of an attack ...
RMT announces Overground strike dates 16 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
The RMT union has announced a 48-hour strike by train guards working on the London Overground. The union is opposing plans to remove the guards from the North and West London Lines and convert them t...
TfL announces boosts to Tube, DLR and Overground services 16 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
Passengers using the capital’s Tube and rail networks are set to benefit from increased capacity and more frequent trains. From next week the Waterloo & City Tube line will operate longer opening hou...
Sainsbury’s joins the list of Cycle Hire funders 15 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
An eagle-eyed reader spotted this poster hanging in the window of Sainsbury’s Holborn HQ and flagged it up for further investigation. I like to think I’ve as good a grasp of the Cycle Hire scheme’s c...
Drivers and cyclists warned of fines as TfL clamps down on road safety 15 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
London’s cycling commissioner has promised greater enforcement of so-called ‘bike boxes’ as part of efforts to increase the safety of cyclists. The boxes, officially called Advanced Stop Lines, are m...
