Transport

Eurostar trains from Amsterdam to London via Rotterdam will not take passengers for six months while a new terminal is built at Centraal station in the Dutch capital, Dutch Railways (NS) has announced.more

A night Superloop service should be introduced to better connect the London's suburbs, a City Hall politician has said. Six new routes are being created and four incorporated into the express network, which was announced in March.more

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has announced that microalgae cultivation will be established on its railway tracks. The algae are supposed to absorb carbon dioxide.more

London is set for a wave a rail disruption at the beginning of the festive period as members of the ASLEF union plan to walk out in December. The Rail Delivery Group - a body representing Britain's rail industry - has urged workers to 'give Christmas back to our customers'.more

Eerie ‘ghost marks’ have appeared on the walls of Elizabeth Line tube stations – left by previous commuters. more

New driving laws have been introduced to improve the development of self-driving vehicles, putting safety at the heart of an industry that could become worth £42billion. more

We will not be ready for the Olympic Games with public transport, said the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, adding that the French capital "will not have enough trains and their frequency" in the summer of 2024.more

Londoners hoping to travel around the city this weekend may need to make alternate plans, as certain stations will be partially or completely closed to allow TfL to complete necessary maintenance.more

Public transport users in London are failing to claim thousands of lost property items handed in every week. The transport authority moved its lost property office from South Kensington to West Ham to accommodate the rising number of objects being stored.more

From July 2024, hundreds of thousands of passenger cars will not be able to drive in large parts of Warsaw, and tens of thousands will not enter Krakow. Samar summarized the effects of introducing clean transport zones - reports "Puls Biznesu".more

A revamped Gatwick Airport railway station has opened to customers.more

The Aslef union has announced a "rolling programme" of walkouts between 2 and 8 December, with different train companies affected on each day. more

The warning strike announced by the GDL train drivers' union at Deutsche Bahn (DB) will lead to numerous train cancellations on regional and long-distance routes throughout Germany today and tomorrow. The protest at the railway will start today at 10 p.m. and will last until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. DB asks you to avoid unnecessary travel.more

In a long-running dispute over jobs, pensions and working conditions, London Underground workers voted almost unanimously to maintain the RMT union's strike mandate for another six months.more

The Czech Republic will gain a new, faster rail link to the Baltic coast in 2024, the Mlada Fronta DNES (MFD) daily reported. Trains from Prague four times a day will go directly to Gdansk and Gdynia. The trip is expected to be three hours faster than with transfers.more

Trainee train drivers have been sought for one of the world's most scenic rail routes.more

Transport for London (TfL) has announced that Google Street View will soon appear in some of the main tube stations in the British capital. The solution is intended to make it easier for many people to navigate the extensive public transport network on the Thames.more

Dodgy pedicab drivers are to be driven off the streets of London under a new licensing system in a bill in the King’s Speech. The crackdown on the three-wheel vehicles is expected to be a stand-alone bill in Rishi Sunak’s new legislative plan to be unveiled on Tuesday.more

Five London Underground lines are set to be simultaneously shut for several hours on the same day next week. Passengers are set to face major disruption on their Tube journeys around the capital on Saturday, November 11.more

Plans to close railway station ticket offices in England have been scrapped, in a government U-turn. The transport secretary, Mark Harper, said the “government had asked train operators to withdraw their proposals”.more

The number of the most polluting vehicles driven in London has fallen by almost half since the capital’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) was expanded, taking almost 80,000 older cars off the roads. more

An overhead line with electrical wires fell today at the Rotterdam station on a Eurostar Thalys train that arrived from Paris, reports the Rijnmond website. It was necessary to evacuate 260 passengers and train traffic around Rotterdam was suspended.more

The first of 3 new electric ferries has been launched on the River Thames in London. A hybrid system allows the new ships to transport commuters and tourists solely using battery power.more

The one-day Travelcard has been saved, Transport for London announced on Tuesday. TfL has struck a deal with train firms to retain the ticket, which is used more than 14 million times a year by people visiting the capital.more

In view of the traffic chaos in the centre of Rome caused by roadworks in preparation for the Holy Year 2025 and the construction of a metro station in Piazza Venezia, public office employees could again partially switch to remote working, a proposal being considered by the Eternal City authorities.more