The country's worst traffic disruptions left motorists stuck in jams for up to 15 hours, costing millions of pounds in wasted time, new research has revealed. The analysis by transport data company Inrix found that drivers faced 1.35 million traffic jams in the past year, costing them an estimated £9 billion in wasted time, fuel and unnecessary carbon emissions.more
London's new electric taxis are almost ready for the public. Six test vehicles are being introduced to the city's streets today ahead of a planned roll out later this year.more
Virgin Atlantic, British Airways and easyJet were all beaten by Jet2, with three stars apiece. The now defunct Monarch achieved four stars for its punctuality. more
Ryanair carried 112 million passengers in 2016, behind only Southwest Airlines (151.8m), American (144.2m), Delta (143.3m) and China Southern (114.5m).more
Before dawn on 29 March 2019, the aviation day begins as normal with the first arrivals at Heathrow from the Far East. But as the passengers emerge blearily from their long-haul Airbuses and Boeings, the departure screens at Britain's biggest airport show far fewer flights than usual.
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Construction work on Metro North will begin in 2021 and the light rail system will be open for business six years later, the Government has announced.more
St Helena's £285m airport, dubbed the "world's most useless" after a series of setbacks, will finally welcome its first scheduled service on Saturday.more
Four Moldovan nationals were killed and three French soldiers hurt on Saturday when a transport plane chartered by France's army crashed off Ivory Coast, authorities said.more
A tights firm hit out at Transport for London's advertising rules today after it was forced to cover up part of a model's back in a campaign image.more
A major think tank has called for a "civility code" to stop Londoners from being so rude and unfriendly to one another. The influential Centre for London think tank wants to reverse the reputation Londoners have, calling for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists to treat each other with greater respect. more
Two major airlines have taken a startup under their wings in pursuit of cleaner air travel. Boeing and JetBlue were revealed to be backing Zunum Aero back in April, and now, the company has set a target release date for their small hybrid-electric airliner: 2022.more
INVENTOR ELON MUSK unveiled plans this morning to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour. The founder of SpaceX said a planned transport system, codenamed BFR (Big F**ing Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.more
This is the moving moment a young man stepped in to help an autistic boy who was suffering a difficult episode on a train journey. Single mother Gayna Pealling hailed Daniel Ball, 21, "my hero" after he stepped in to help calm down her five-year-old son Jack, who has autism and ADHD.more
Transport for London could stand to make more than £320 million by monitoring passengers' mobile phone use on the Tube, it has emerged. A major project to track Wi-Fi usage on the London Underground is being considered in an effort to better understand travel patterns - as well as boost advertising revenue.more
Irish rail deals with a lot of passenger journeys - about 37 million each year in fact. And while the train is a perfectly pleasant way to commute, like all public transport, it does carry one constant threat - the fear of leaving behind your belongings.
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Passengers on board a packed rush-hour train forced open the doors and fled the carriage onto tracks after a man began reading lines from the Bible.more
A chef has been found guilty of attempting to murder a schoolgirl by removing her seatbelt and deliberately crashing the car in which they were travelling after he discovered his wife had killed herself. The crash happened hours after Lukasz Jarosz found the body of his wife, Aneta, in the bathroom of their home in Wilton, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, in January.more
Dublin Bus is set to permanently alter 21 of its routes through the city centre from this weekend in a move designed to help facilitate the Luas Cross City. From Sunday, buses will no longer be permitted to turn right at the bottom of Dawson Street, leading to a number of changes for some of the capital's most-used routes.more
An Air France A380 superjumbo jetliner taking more than 500 people from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Canada on Saturday following "serious damage" to one of its four engines, the airline said.more
Foreign drivers have racked up more than £1million in unpaid parking fines in central London. Motorists from France, Qatar, the UAE and Romania are the worst offenders, Westminster City Council said today.more