Continuing what is rapidly becoming “road season” here on LR, we’d like to highlight a fascinating video that can currently be found on YouTube – the London Evolution Animation. Tracking London’s growth from pre-Roman times …
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Tolling for Growth – London’s New Highways Studies
Just as we fail to report on buses as much as we should, we tend to not report on London’s roads – in part because there is normally little that attracts our attention. It must …
Continue readingRoundtable: The TfL Draft Business Plan
Transport news, like London buses, often seems to come in clumps. With the various recent announcements it would thus be easy to miss that TfL have published their draft Business Plan for the next decade. …
Continue readingToo High A Fare: The Decline and Fall of the London Taxi Company
Manganese Bronze, better known as “The London Taxi Company” and maker of the iconic London’s black cab, has called in the administrators. By most accounts, the company has had problems for some time, with the …
Continue readingTfL November Board Meeting: Roads and Buses
Traffic Signal Timing Reviews 333 signal timing reviews have been completed so far this financial year, delivering just over a seven per cent reduction in stop-start delays for traffic. This has been achieved alongside an …
Continue readingSomething in the air tonight – Road-spraying trial aims to improve London air quality
Our thanks to Flickrist Steve White 2008 for this picture of a street cleaner/sprayer in Paris. An earlier variant of the plans announced below based on water. George Barrow
Continue readingLondon To Get Pedestrian Blackout Timers
London is to get its first ‘Countdown’ timers, which will help people know how long they have to cross the road. These are different to the Countdown describers at bus stops, which confusingly have the …
Continue readingTfL Board Commissioner’s Report: The Road & Buses
[Below are the noteworthy extractions from the Commissioner’s Report – MWM] Traffic Signal Timing Reviews Traffic signal timings are reviewed in order to reduce the time vehicles spend idling in queues, the number of stops …
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