Post Tagged with: "Tube"

  • Video: napping tube passenger snuggles up to stranger

    We’ve all done it, haven’t we? A bit late with this, but you might not have seen it…

     
  • Tube maintenance workers start 72 hour tube strike today

    Maintenance workers on the tube will start a 72-hour strike at 4 pm today in a dispute over pensions and benefits equality. Workers who do maintenance on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines voted four to one in favour of strike action be allowed to join the TfL Pension Scheme and receive […]

     
  • More underground munitions

    This time the bomb is at Baker Street. So on top of the “V2” at London Bridge we’re beginning to stock up quite an arsenal.

     
  • Sunday’s London Links

    Tube boss criticises ‘selective and partisan’ documentary. Mayor Watch. Stop HS2 focuses on the campaigns in the capital. Making the marriage between schools and libraries work. Michael Rosen. Deptford calling sees dead people. And takes some lovely pictures. I do like maps, even weird and whacky ones but this one […]

     
  • Saturday’s London Links

    There is a Bikes Alive logo contest – why not try your hand at an inspiring image? Tut, tut. The Southwark Mayor is double parked. South London Press. Lewisham News Shopper reports that unions are up in arms over library transfers. There’s some great underground footage at Londonist. The Camden New […]

     
  • RMT secures Olympics deal

    Transport union RMT said today that it has secured a ground breaking Olympics pay deal on DLR worth £2,500 made up of a guaranteed attendance payment of £900 and guaranteed overtime payments for all staff throught the olympics and para-olympics period. The agreement includes a £900 attendance bonus, paid at £100 […]

     
  • Trouser-less on the tube?

    So you may have heard that we have just survived the annual, international No Trousers on the Tube day. Sunday was the third time that London has born witness to gangs of hipsters indulging their social, yet surreal, side so publicly. Apparently 59 cities around  the world take part in […]

     
  • Chaos on TfL

    High winds are being blamed for another morning of chaos on London’s transport today. Good luck everyone! Thanks to Dan Beasley for the pic!

     
  • Northern Line: Tottenham Court Road re-opens

    Happy day! Today was the first day of a new era where Northern Line passengers can get on and off at Tottenham Court Road. It’s been closed for some time so it’s good to see it open again although they’ve clearly got a little bit of work left to do.