Transport

A series of special tests have been taking place to ensure that the Tyne and Wear Metro’s new trains perform correctly at their full customer capacity.more

Two new express bus routes will be added to the new Superloop network following a public consultation, Transport for London (TfL) has announced.more

Train passengers are facing another six months of potential strikes, after members of the RMT union voted for further industrial action. The dispute with rail companies has been going on for nearly 18 months more

Central London has "chronic issues" with street clutter, making it a worse place to live, visit and work in, a think tank has warned. more

More than 600,000 British drivers face disqualification with “one touch of their phone”, a road safety charity has warned. more

Sadiq Khan made the announcement at an Underground station to mark World Restart A Heart Day. Last year, the London Ambulance Service responded to 13,000 cardiac arrests across the capital. more

It has become one of London’s great transport talking points: is the Elizabeth line a Tube line or a train line? The answer, says Transport for London, is neither: rather, the “Lizzie line” is in a class of its own.more

A bedbug appears to be crawling on a passenger's leg on the London Underground in a viral TikTok video, coming after TfL assured that it was not aware of any outbreaks in the capital.more

The Eurostar says it will take preventative measures against bedbugs on its London-Paris trains after a surge of the insects in France.more

Train drivers belonging to Aslef walked out at 16 rail companies on Wednesday resulting in no services on major London commuter routes.more

Planned strikes on the London Underground have been called off following "significant progress" in talks over jobs and conditions. About 3,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members were due to strike on Wednesday and Friday.more

Travellers face a week of disruption as rail services are hit by a fresh round of walkouts by train drivers and London Underground workers in a long-running dispute over jobs and pay.more

The rail network and London Underground will be hit by strikes at the end of September and start of October. Here's what you need to know.more

Families travelling to London by train will have to pay 16% more on average after the day travelcard is scrapped, a charity has warned. more

Car drivers could be charged up to £4 to use the Blackwall tunnel or Silvertown tunnel, according to official documents. Transport Secretary Mark Harper has approved an updated request from Transport for London to erect road signs informing drivers that they will need to pay to use the tunnels from 2025.more

Thousands of London Underground station staff are to strike next month in a long-running dispute over jobs and conditions. The stoppages by members of the RMT will take place on 4 and 6 October, and, according to the union, will shut down tube services in the capital.more

Half of city residents increasingly demand that the authorities introduce environmentally friendly transport, according to a Deloitte report. 64 percent cities intends to acquire partners who will help develop environmentally sustainable means of public transport - it was added.more

Passengers across the UK face further disruption after Aslef announced yet more industrial action. Members of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, have timed their latest walkouts to disrupt the Conservative Party Conference.more

North London boroughs are the most dangerous areas to drive in the capital, according to a study, with the most collisions per billion vehicle miles. more

Latest figures from the Office of Rail and Road show that only 82.5 per cent of its trains arrived on time between April and June – down 5.6 points on the first three months of the year.more

The mileage of local roads in England being resurfaced or treated to avoid potholes has fallen to its lowest level in five years, research has shown. more

Plans for a high-speed ferry to and from Canary Wharf that would enable cyclists and pedestrians to cross the Thames in two minutes have been unveiled. River operator Uber Boat by Thames Clippers is proposing up to six crossings an hour at peak times from Surrey Quays from 2025, with journeys costing £2 to £3.more

More high-speed mobile coverage in stations and tunnels on the Tube network has been announced.more

The first Tubes stations in London's West End have received high-speed mobile coverage. 4G and 5G is available at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road ticket halls and on the Central line between the stations. Further sections of the Northern and Central line will be getting coverage in the coming months.more

While the timeline for completing the Metrolink seems to stretch endlessly into the future, delivery plans for the project are set to come into focus, finally. Two weeks ago, a group of consultants led by Dublin-based Turner & Townsend was appointed to oversee the delivery of Ireland’s first metro railway.more