Articles tagged ‘transport’
London Transport Museum set to re-open
By Chris | November 15th, 2007 |
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The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is set to re-open next week after being closed for two years during a £22million refurbishment and upgrade. The museum’s been based at the old Covent Garden Flower Market building for the last 27 years having started life at a bus garage in Clapham during the 1920s.
The museum’s [...]
London Travel Essentials
By Chris | September 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Here are some links to articles on the nuts and bolts of planning a trip to London. Where you’re going to arrive, getting around, accomodation, health, currency and disabled travellers are some of the things covered.
Visas
London Airports
Public Transport
Health Care
Money in the UK
British Currency
Hostels in London
Fare hikes for London’s transport
By Chris | January 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Starting the New Year as he means to go on, the Mayor of London has jacked up the price of fares on London’s buses and Underground system for people who are paying cash for single journeys.
If you want to go even one stop on the Tube now and go to buy a ticket for that [...]
Daily Dose 01.02
By Chris | January 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Big prices rises on London Transport to start the New Year. A single journey paid in cash on the Tube now costs £4, ridiculous.(BBCNews)
* Richard Branson is to form the first ‘world budget airline’ along with Stelios from easyJet and Air Asia to supply knock down fares to China, India and Malaysia. £43 from [...]
Interactive Underground Map
By Chris | January 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I’ve been looking at a site that offers an interactive map of London, where you click a start and a finish point on a map of the capital and it works out the Tube route you should take. Handy I guess if you find map reading a struggle or the Underground map a colour coded [...]
The master plan for London transport
By Chris | December 1st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Time to head for the exits? Probably if you read what Tony Blair’s anointed successor has planned for us when he takes over as Prime Minister next year.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Labour’s number two man and a shoe-in as Blair’s replacement has former British Airways CEO Rod Eddington as his transport adviser. [...]
