Transport

There is one car for every second person in the EU — but perhaps surprisingly, Ireland has among the lowest overall ownership. more

London Underground workers will strike in August in an ongoing dispute between the RMT union, TfL and London Underground management.more

Transport for London is still planning big cuts despite a multi-billion-pound funding offer from government, according to Sadiq Khan. more

Sunday is the third day of heavy traffic jams on the British side of the English Channel. While drivers wait several or several hours to enter the ferry or tunnel, the British and French governments are shifting responsibility for this problem.more

Long-running weekend strikes on London's Night Tube have been suspended after the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union accepted a concession from London Underground about rotas.more

Some parts of the country will have no train services during the next strike by thousands of rail workers, passengers are being warned.more

The UK is set to become home to the world's largest automated drone superhighway within the next two years. more

Tourists to London should face a new tourism levy to fund Transport for London (TfL), City Hall has heard. Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics told the London Assembly on Wednesday, July 13 a tourist tax would be worth “hundreds of millions of pounds” per year - and suggested it could be used to solve TfL's funding crisis. more

Thanks to the discovery of 17 original carriages of the famous Orient Express in Poland, the iconic train between Paris and Istanbul could return to the tracks again in 2024, in time for the summer Olympics in the French capital, Timeout reported yesterday.more

Sadiq Khan has been urged to consider delaying the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) across Greater London due to the cost of living crisis and lack of funds for a scrappage scheme. more

The next series of railroad strikes awaits Great Britain in the coming weeks, unions have announced, which are arguing with rail carriers about the amount of increases, employment conditions and job cuts.more

Speed limits in built-up areas will be reduced from 30mph to 20mph in Wales from next year - a UK first that is controversial among some drivers. more

Railway workers are to stage a one-day strike on 27 July as part of an ongoing dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the RMT union says. It comes after thousands of rail operator and Network Rail workers walked out during national strike action in June.more

Uber has made its expansion in many cities around the world through flouting the law, defrauding the police, using violence against drivers and covertly lobbying the government, according to documents released by the UK daily The Guardian.more

The first new stop on the London Overground since 2005 will open on 18 July, its operator has confirmed.more

High skills, consent to breaking the rules, including speeding and overtaking before a pedestrian crossing - this is how Polish drivers assess themselves in a survey by the Polish Chamber of Insurance, described today by Rzeczpospolita.more

Electric vehicles accounted for almost one in two new cars bought in London last month, it has been revealed.more

A notorious junction said to be “like a scene from Ben Hur” has been made safer for cyclists with the introduction of a £1.6 million protected bike lane.more

The delivery giant said its new micromobility hub in London will lead to a million more customer deliveries each year, while others are expected to open across the UK in the coming months. more

Transport for London (TfL) is marking Pride month by remembering a secret language the LGBTQ+ community used to use.more

People will be able to catch the Northern Line throughout the night again from this Saturday. The weekend night tube service was stopped when coronavirus lockdowns were brought in, and has slowly resumed on some lines.more

A big increase in the number of cyclists being killed or seriously injured on London roads was revealed yesterday. The number of cyclist fatalities increased from six to 10 last year, compared with the 2021 calendar year, while the number of serious injuries rose from 862 to 989, a 15 per cent jump.more

The Dutch government ordered Amsterdam Schiphol airport to reduce the number of flights to 440,000. annually. The economic organization and trade unions do not agree with this decision. "It is a knife to the heart of the Dutch economy," says Reinier Castelein, head of De Unie trade union.more

Some 16 London bus routes could be axed completely. TfL is in the middle of a six-week consultation on the future of the capital’s bus services.more

Hopes of an end to the dispute that has caused four Tube strikes in three months have risen after Sadiq Khan signalled he accepted union demands not to cut staff pensions.more