Transport

The canal through the Vistula Spit, the construction of which was opposed by Russia, is a symbol of Poland's determination to chart its own course in the constantly changing landscape of international trade and diplomacy - wrote the British daily "Daily Express" yesterday on its website.more

Train drivers are set to strike again next month as part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. Aslef members at 16 rail companies will take part in rolling one-day walk outs between 5 and 8 April, along with a six-day overtime ban. The union said the new industrial action was to "increase the pressure" on train companies for a pay rise.more

TfL has revealed when the next revamped Central line trains will enter service on the London Underground. The 1992 stock is being upgraded as part of a £500 million programme.more

Train strikes may have hit a brief pause but engineering works are continuing.more

More Uber Boats could be coming to east London during the week in a bid to improve services for residents and attract more visitors into the area. more

Bus passengers around England receive a wide variation in service, and many feel "let down", a major new passenger survey revealed. Passenger watchdog Transport Focus asked people to rate 35,000 bus journeys across 34 local authorities last year.more

India’s first metro rail tunnel under a major stretch of water has been inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi, nearly four decades after metro services began in the country.more

Black taxi fares are to rise by more than double the rate of inflation from next month in the latest attempt to prevent cabbies quitting the trade. Fares will rise by an average of 8.9 per cent, at a time the CPI rate of inflation is four per cent. more

Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that an agreement has been struck with private rail companies to axe peak fares on Fridays until May 31, under a £24million experiment to reverse the slump in passenger numbers.more

The cost of regulated rail fares in England will rise by up to 4.9% from Sunday. The jump is likely to be unwelcome for rail passengers, adding to the rising cost of living seen in recent years. It also comes at a time when passengers have faced disruption to services due to strikes by rail workers over the past 18 months.more

About 40 per cent of journeys on London’s public transport network will be more expensive due to the limited impact of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s “fares freeze”, it can be revealed. It means that Transport for London’s income from fares will increase by up to £75m over the next 12 months, if travel returns to pre-pandemic levels – the bulk from more expensive Tube journeys.more

Flix have announced new electric long-distance coaches running to and from London. The coaches will be available for journeys from March and cost as little as £2.99.more

Warning strikes are to be held in local transport in many regions of Germany until Saturday. Yesterday, city bus drivers in Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland and parts of Trier went on strike, resulting in many connections being canceled. There are also several hours of disruption in Berlin, the Tagesschau portal reported.more

Bus company staff in London are set to strike next month over pay. Around 40 members of staff will be involved in the strike that is set to impact 18 bus routes for 9 days.more

The London Underground lines with the worst air quality have been named. New data from a report by Transport for London analyses air quality across the Tube network and shows how the lines rank.more

Rail passenger numbers could nearly double by 2050 compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to research. Demand will grow by between 37% and 97% by that point under various scenarios, the study commissioned by industry body Railway Industry Association (RIA) said.more

We’re all worried about train strikes but, if you’re looking at moving to a good commuter town outside the M25, you need to be careful. While the average house prices may be cheaper than London, there are certain locations where your morning train is likely to make you very, very late for work.more

The new names of London's six Overground lines have been revealed, significantly changing the look of the famous Tube map. Last August, Transport for London (TfL) announced it wanted to give the routes distinct identities to make it easier for passengers to navigate the network.more

Tube insiders on Wednesday raised alarming new concerns about the state of the Central line — and warned that passengers faced years of chaos due to “inexcusable” delays in upgrading the clapped-out trains. Whistle-blowers contacted the Evening Standard to reveal a multitude of “foreseeable” problems on the line caused by years of under-investment.more

An AI system is being piloted in the metro in Montreal, Canada, which is able to identify potential suicides based on monitoring data. It's part of a suicide prevention strategy on Montreal public transit.more

Sadiq Khan has hinted that he may look to expand Night Tube services to more London Underground lines if he were elected as the capital's mayor for a third term. Mr Khan told MyLondon that it was 'on the table' - but he is waiting to see what happens on May 2, the date when Londoners will go to the polls. more

Commuters face further strikes and disruption in February and March, as RMT union members working on London Overground walk out over pay. More than 300 workers will take industrial action which includes strikes and action short of strike.more

Transport for London has been unable to set a date for the return of normal service on the Central line despite engineers working overtime to replace worn-out motors on the ageing fleet of trains. Problems began in November when the shortage of trains resulted in long gaps between services, causing delays and severe overcrowding, especially at central London stations.more

Londoners are the country’s most unhappy commuters with almost a quarter (24 per cent) saying they hate their journey to work, according to new research.more

The construction of HS2 high-speed rail - the largest ongoing infrastructure investment in Europe - in its truncated version, namely from London to Birmingham, offers a very poor benefit-cost ratio, the Public Accounts Committee assessed in a report released yesterday.more