Articles tagged ‘Mayor of LOndon’
Congestion charge penalty hike
By Chris | December 4th, 2007 |
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The Evening Standard reports that London Mayor Ken Livingstone wants to increase the fine for people who do not pay the congestion charge for driving their cars into central London. The congestion zone covers a swath of central London from Clerkenwell, the City of London and Borough in the east to South Kensington, Holland Park [...]
£25 Congestion Charge for bigger cars
By Chris | August 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Mayor of London says TfL (Transport for London) will start a consultation this week on the plans to charge SUV’s, 4×4s and luxury cars £25($50!) a day to drive into the central London Congestion Zone. People living in the zone who own one of these types of vehicle would also lose their resident discount. [...]
Heathrow and British Airways in the news
By Chris | August 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are a host of bad stories at the moment surrounding both British Airways and Heathrow Airport. BA have just been fined £125million by the Office of Fair Trading after it admitted price fixing of fuel surcharges on long-haul flights, this was also a joint investigation with the US Department of Justice who are going [...]
Daily Dose 07.17
By Chris | July 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Metropolitan Police get access to real time data from London’s congestion charge cameras so they can track cars across the city.(BBCNews)
* Mayor given new powers to approve more skyscrapers in London.(EveningStandard)
* The UK has some of the most expensive and slowest broadband in the world.(Telegraph)
City Hall open day
By Chris | June 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London’s City Hall has one of its regular open weekends this week, all though this time its only opening up to the public on Sunday 17 June from 10am-5pm.
City Hall on the banks of the River Thames houses the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London, and a number of times a year opens [...]
Keeping London Undergound cool
By Chris | May 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Anyone who’s travelled on the London Undeground during the summer months knows how hot and stuffy it can get hundreds of feet below ground, especially on packed trains or narrow platforms crowded with passengers. The Mayor of London and the Managing Director of the Tube have been detailing the short and long term plans to [...]
London Summer of Sport
By Chris | May 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The second London Summer of Sport is being launched next week, sponored by the National Lottery, Sport England and the Mayor of London. The aims are to increase participation in sport and greater physical activity in the population in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics.
The Summer of Sport features demonstration, participation and coaching [...]
Walk to Work Day in London
By Chris | April 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Today is London Walk to Work Day, part of the Walking Works campaign that’s run by the Living Streets charity and sponsored by the Mayor of London and Tranpsort for London.
Walking works, public tranport doesn’t, a cynic might say and while walking around London is great if you have time, I’m not so sure [...]
Climate change plan for London
By Chris | February 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has held a major launch for his London Climate Change Action Plan to cut the amount of green house gases London contributes to the atmosphere. He’s set himself the ambitious target of getting London’s emissions to 60% below the 1990 levels and to do this he’s divided his plan [...]
Welcome to London
By Chris | February 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Sunday Times had a story yesterday about London Mayor Ken Livingstone wanting to build up to six what they call ‘landmark sculptures’ to mark the boundaries of Greater London. He’s set up a project that includes some leading architects such as Lord Rogers to look at what could be built to indicate to travellers [...]
