Scores of flights have been cancelled at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports and the Tube and train services severely disrupted as freezing fog and heavy snow blanket London - with the wintry weather set to cause chaos for Monday rush-hour travellers.more
The new railway timetable, which will come into force on Sunday, December 11 this year, means that PKP Intercity will increase the number of connections, among others to between Warsaw and the Tri-City and Krakow, as well as more international trains, the railway carrier said.more
Train passengers are to be told to only travel next week if it is absolutely necessary, even if rail worker strikes are called off at the last minute. Workers at the UK's biggest rail union, the RMT, will walk out on 13-14 and 16-17 December causing major disruption.more
Getting a bus in London can sometimes be an agonising experience. Long queues, packed buses, and heavy traffic can all make London’s most used form of public transport a bit of a nightmare.more
Talks aimed at averting train strikes before Christmas are expected to continue on Monday, after the RMT union rejected an initial offer by the group representing train companies.
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The German states confirmed after a conference in Berlin yesterday that a €49 per month ticket will be introduced from 1 April, valid on public transport and regional trains throughout Germany.more
Nearly four in five SurreyLive readers say they 'would never pay' London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) charge for a non-compliant vehicle. It comes as plans to extend the zone to the Surrey border have been given a boost, after the London Assembly gave its backing to the plans.
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Polish travellers are increasingly willing to switch to trains. This trend is likely to continue in the long term, according to the published EMIS report "Poland Transportation Sector Report 2022-2023" summarising the area of transport in Poland.more
Four further strikes of 48 hours each in the run-up to Christmas and New Year will be carried out by British railwaymen, the RMT, the trade union representing rail, sea and road transport workers, announced yesterday.more
Tube passengers may be able to stream the World Cup Final on their smartphones while deep underground, it can be revealed.
The roll-out of a 4G wireless network on the London Underground is due to hit a major landmark by the end of next month, when a number of stations and tunnels on the Northern and Central lines will be the first in central London to be connected.more
Aerospace company Archer announced that in two years its electric flying taxis will serve passengers in New York. For starters, they will fly from downtown to Newark Liberty Airport. As reported, the air taxi avoids traffic jams, so the flight to the airport from Manhattan will take "less than 10 minutes."more
Major disruptions are expected over the Christmas and New Year period at UK airports and ports. The civil service strike, which is to be conducted from mid-December for a month, will be attended by, among others, border guards and officials of the Ministry of the Interior.more
Although the LED Countdown displays are still useful for passengers, for the past six years TfL has been experimenting with alternative solutions which are less resource-intensive and more adaptable.more
Londoners are set for yet more travel misery in the run up to Christmas following the news that bus drivers will go on strike from November 22.
Almost 1,000 bus drivers employed by Abellio will strike on November 22, 25 and 26 and on December 1,2,3,9,10,16 and 17.more
Climate activists from the Just Stop Oil group announced yesterday that they are indefinitely halting protests on British roads. Over the past four days, they have been blocking the London Bypass again, causing major transport disruptions.more
London councils are cracking down on drivers as concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - an air pollutant created mostly from cars -reach their greatest levels since the start of the pandemic.more