London’s ULEZ becomes 18 times larger
Transport for London is urging drivers to use its online vehicle checker to make sure they don’t get caught out by the new enlarged Ultra Low Emission Zone which has come into force. The new zone will be 18 times the current central area that has seen toxic pollution slashed by half. It will run […]
TfL asks Treasury for more money
Transport for London has asked the Treasury for a further half a billion worth of support for the rest of the financial year and for another £1.2 billion next year to “ensure London’s recovery” from the pandemic. London’s financial paper City AM says documents submitted to the government’s spending review include a commitment from TfL […]
HERE and TfL partner on environmentally-friendly traffic management
Location data and technology platform HERE Technologies and the global supplier of technology and services Bosch have announced they’ve worked with Transport for London to measure and improve air quality in the London Borough of Lambeth by reducing traffic congestion. They say results show the project led to a marked improvement in localised air quality, […]
How do you manage transport in a clever city? Webinar hears you should make sure everything you have works, before you think of adding more technology!
Traffic management experts from both sides of the globe have given members of ITS (UK) and ITS Australia advice on how to manage traffic in a city, saying it’s vital to make sure you optimise existing kit before looking to add anything new. The joint ITS2 webinar heard from traffic managers in the Australian state […]
All new London buses will be zero-emission
The Mayor of London has announced that all new buses ordered by Transport for London for the capital will now be zero-emission. Sadiq Khan says this builds on its recent achievement of making its entire bus fleet compliant with strict Euro VI emission standards – the same standards as the Ultra Low Emission Zone. City Hall […]
Extracting more value out of TfL’s bus priority system
Transport for London has been working on a number of innovative techniques that have allowed it to maximise the usefulness of its bus priority equipment and increase our bus priority capability. Here, Michael Bloomfield and David Oram of TfL outline how all these work streams again have the objective of helping buses to get through […]
Transport watchdog calls for “fair funding deal” for London
Transport watchgo London TravelWatch has co-ordinated writing a letter alongside London First, several other organisations and elected representatives stressing to the Department for Transport “the importance of London’s transport system receiving a fair funding deal in the forthcoming three-year CSR settlement”. The organisations say they are concerned that inadequate funding for transport in the capital this […]
London borough reports continued fall in harmful pollution
Lambeth Council has unveiled its Air Quality Annual Status Report highlighting a significant reduction in toxic air levels in the borough, thanks to a fall in vehicle emissions. The report has been published showing the continued fall in the levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and other harmful particles linked to vehicles, saying that between 2014 […]
TfL launches virtual Silvertown Tunnel exhibition
Transport for London has launched a new virtual public exhibition about the Silvertown Tunnel project, including new CGI images showing what the fully accessible walking and cycling bridge across the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road will look like once complete. The new bridge has been designed to provide a safe and easily accessible crossing for […]
Driver “on brink of nervous breakdown” after cloned-plate fines
A woman has told of her anguish after her car number plate was cloned leading to nearly £20,000 of fines delivered to her, and subsequently bailiffs turning up at her door. Claire Herron from Hartlepool told ITV news she was charged for offences across almost every London borough which had been wrongly recorded against her. […]