• Free New Year's Eve travel 2011

  By LiseS at 07:51 on 29/12/11

  

  Planning to head out on Saturday night? Tube, DLR and tram services will run all night on New Year's Eve and all travel will once again be free between 11.45pm and 4.30am. If you're going into town for the festivities, please note that Charing Cross tube will be exit only from 11.45pm to 3am - head down to Embankment instead if you want to get home in the early hour Leicester Square will also be exit and interchange only from 8pm to...

• Christmas weekend travel in Highgate

  By LiseS at 17:54 on 19/12/11

  

  With the party season well under way and just a few days to Christmas, here's everything you need to know to make sure you get home safely this weekend! Christmas Eve, 24 December A normal Saturday service will run on the tubes until 7pm, and less frequently after this time. Last train times from Highgate will be 11.23pm southbound, and 00.03 northbound. If you're heading up from the West End, aim to be on a tube by 11.30pm to make...

• Got a transport problem? Fix it with Fix My Transport!

  By LiseS at 12:28 on 18/11/11

  

  A recent trip abroad and the attendant schlep back up to North London from the airport got us thinking about public transport in the UK and the myriad ways it could be improved - from broken Oyster readers to rude bus drivers and trains that never show up on time. Fortunately, there's now a simple way to report transport problems online, using the community website FixMyTransport. FixMyTransport was developed by the team at MySociety,...

• Digging in the dirt: report problem roadworks online

  By LiseS at 20:31 on 23/09/11

  

  Roadworks seem to be a fact of London life - hardly a week goes by without some kind of road maintenance or utility upgrade appearing on our city streets. But although they're a regular occurence, Mayor of London Boris Johnson has just launched a new initiative to improve standards and keep roadworks safe and considerate. "Badly-managed roadworks are a headache for Londoners and a drain on our economy," says Mayor Johnson....

• Tube strikes called off as tribunal finds for driver

  By LiseS at 09:51 on 25/06/11

  

  Highgate's daily commute will be, if not easy, then at least no more difficult than usual next week as the tube strikes threatened by the RMT union have been called off. A tribunal found that tube driver Arwyn Thomas had been unfairly dismissed by London Underground last year, and following his reinstatement the union agreed to call off strikes. A series of strikes were due to disrupt the network from Monday. Thomas was sacked for...

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