Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary has criticised the “flight-shaming” movement promoted by Greta Thunberg and other climate campaigners, saying they are peddling a “fallacy” that air travel could be replaced by other modes of transport.more
Three sections of the Elizabeth line have been connected, allowing passengers to travel across London without having to change stations. Previously anyone going from Heathrow, Reading, Abbey Wood and Shenfield had to change at Paddington or Liverpool Street to remain on the new Tube line.more
Poppy roundels, specially wrapped buses and unique station announcements are returning to London’s transport network this week as TfL kicks off the capital’s annual Poppy Appeal.more
London Tube passenger numbers have returned to their highest level since before the Covid-19 pandemic as workers return to the office and people head out for the weekend, new figures show.
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TfL is charging older Londoners £10 a year to keep their 60+ Oyster cards - in a move branded a “scam” by one user. Ghanashyam Master was told this month he had to pay a recently-introduced £10 a year fee to prove that he still lives a London Borough. more
Next year, Belgium will launch a new pilot project where smart cameras will be used to identify drivers using their mobile phones while driving. Such persons will be fined, the Belga agency informed.more
Network Rail employees have announced another wave of strikes in the dispute over wages and working conditions. Protests will take place on November 5, 7 and 9, RMT said.more
The Norwegian capital is on track to become the world's first city with an all-electric public transportation system. The plan is for this to happen by the end of 2023. This is one part of the effort to make Oslo the world's first completely emission-free city by 2030.more
There is an eerie silence in a shopping centre beneath London Waterloo, the station from which Eurostar trains once whisked people from the capital to mainland Europe.more
Male drivers are almost three times more likely than women to be involved in road collisions that kill or seriously injure pedestrians in Great Britain, a gap that has widened over the past decade.more
Only about 20 percent. Trains hit the tracks in Great Britain yesterday due to a new strike - the eleventh in the last four months and the third since the beginning of October - for rail workers who are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.more
German railroads had to halt train traffic in northern Germany today due to a malfunction. Deutsche Bahn claims there was sabotage. According to the Bild daily portal, unknown persons cut important fiber optic cables in Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen.more
The government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday that free rail travel on medium-distance and suburban routes will be in effect in the country in 2023.more
More than 50,000 workers are taking part in a strike which is causing the worst rail disruption of the year so far.
Members of four unions are staging 24-hour walkout in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. It means only 11% of usual train services are running, with large areas of the UK with no services at all.more
Move over, self-driving cars and trains: autonomous ferries might soon be ferrying passengers across rivers in the world’s big cities, including London’s Thames.more
Post-Brexit border checks have slowed the speed at which Eurostar passengers pass through London St Pancras on their way to Paris, reducing the terminal’s capacity by one-third, according to the cross-Channel rail company’s boss.more