You're probably as tired of reading about it as we are of writing about it, but there's more bus strike action coming our way. Plan now to find alternate transport on Friday 10 and Wednesday 22 October, especially as more routes will be affected than previously. Members of the union Unite are still trying to achieve uniform pay rates and hours for their workers, which we support even if we grumble about how it's achieved.......

Fans of the bendy bus, be of good cheer. The voice of London's transport users, TravelWatch, has concluded there is no case for scrapping bendy buses on some of our busiest routes after its public meeting last week. The 38, 507 and 521 bendy buses are in jeopardy following Boris and TFL chums' consultation over their articulated future, seeking to fulfill the reckless election promise of binning the bendies. But TravelWatch took a fine......

That's it folks, your opportunity to design a new bus for London is over. The competition closed awhile back, but if you didn't get round to it, never mind, for like the poor kid ever-bested by his Competitive Dad in The Fast Show, a professional's gone and jumped in to show us how it's done. Architecture firm Foster + Partners slipped in their sleek and futuristic, yet recognisable and pleasantly curvaceous double-decker offering at......

The Tories have something different in mind for the proposed third runway at Heathrow: scrapping it in favour of high speed trains. Transport spokeswoman Theresa Villiers confirmed this morning at the Conservative Party Conference "that a Conservative government would say no to a third runway at Heathrow." The theory is that trains are greener than planes and will thus help cut carbon emissions. We're quite fond of riding the rails at Londonist; it's definitely......

One of Boris Johnson's manifesto pledges was to remove bendy buses from the streets of London and replace them with a next-generation Routemaster - a populist promise that played well in London's hinterlands, where the moneyed folk rarely ride public transportation. While the second half of that pledge is hostage to the whims and ideas of folk who entered the design competition, the first half looks to be on track: a consultation is currently......

Boris Johnson this morning unveiled a mock-up of the new "S" stock trains being constructed for the Metropolitan, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines. Boasting more spacious interiors and easier movement between carriages, the main bragging point is that the trains will feature air conditioning, a first for the Underground. Sweltering Victoria line commuters, don't get your hopes up - these shallow, cut-and-cover lines make a/c much easier, though TfL claims to be working......

Mothers, lock up your sons - Jan Leeming is on the prowl for a partner. Don't all rush at once now. School's out for Sunhill: a copper for every classroom in Ealing Forlorn faces at Foxtons as Monaco pips London for priciest properties. TX-4 taxi cabs bound for Bahrain Possible delays for Eurostar after early morning power failure Catford prefab housing estate may get listed status King's College involved in talent pooling scheme to......

After his disrupted return from hols back in August, Mayor Johnson vowed to investigate alternatives to our existing London airport situation given the regular breakdowns the big 2 experience, strident opposition to Heathrow expansion and stalling on City Airport's expansion plans. As good as his word, he really is considering the pros and cons of a Thames Estuary airport. More productively, he's calling on government to commission a feasibility study into it as they're......

Triathlon? Ironman? Fergeddaboutit. A stroll in the park compared to this: the Arch to Arc, a 289-mile run, swim and cycle from London's Marble Arch to Paris' Arc De Triomphe. Only five mortals have ever completed the gruelling course, and on Saturday hedge fund manager Nino Baglione set off on his own attempt to break the current record of 81 hours and 5 minutes. Sadly, having jogged the 89 miles to Dover, his plans were......

Derek O'Reilly is about as close as you can get to a bonafide Black Cab Celebrity. A true Londoner born in Hackney at the Old Mothers Hospital and resident of Islington for over 20 years he recently transplanted to Wapping. Not only has he been Training Manager at the Knowledge Point School for over 10 years overseeing the training material and plans for aspirant cab drivers starting the Knowledge but he's a media starlet......

On Tuesday, artist Nils Norman will be giving a talk at London Transport Museum, discussing his public commissions and poster artworks, including 'Ideal City' and 'Fantasy Piccadilly Line' for Piccadilly Underground station and Piccadilly line trains. You and A.N.Other can be there for free by entering the no strings, no stress, no question, no problem giveaway below. We'll pick a winner on Monday lunchtime and notify them by email. You need to be able......

Hailing down a cab might prove tougher than usual over the next couple of weeks. After a series of unexplained fires, TfL and the Public Carriage Office have ordered drivers of TX4-type cabs with a 56 registration to take their vehicles for a safety check, or risk having their license suspended. Seven cabs have gone up in smoke over the past three months, and though nobody's been injured, the decision was made to have......

Shepherd's Bush Market station Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith & City line will shortly be renamed Shepherd's Bush Market, thus finally ending the long-running fallacy that it is connected to its Central Line namesake. TfL are ready to fire the starter's gun on the name change: they've prepared new roundels at the station, yet curiously, they remain partly covered up with blue tape, allowing mischievous Londoners to choose what the station's new suffix should......

Wood Lane tube taken from a passing H&C train this morning After a farcical delay, the new mainline station at Shepherd's Bush has been given an opening date of 28th September. As transport-obsessive blog London Reconnections has diligently noted, the 28th has been in mind for a while now - signs have appeared stating as much - but only received official confirmation today. The station will serve Westfield Shopping Centre, and sits on the West......

Those considering flying to France to avoid the ongoing chaos caused by Thursday's Channel Tunnel fire may wish to think again: major operators including British Airways and Air France have been accused of cashing in by charging £600 for flights between London and Paris. Though BA protest this is the standard price for a late booking in business class, and claim they have increased capacity by running larger aircraft, a French passenger group accused them......

Nice as New Yorkers are, they have a well-deserved rep for defending their city's honour against the slings and arrows of outrageous slurs. We can only imagine that any visiting Manhattanites will be ready to rip London a new bagel-hole when they clap eyes on a new advert for Radisson hotels currently running on the Tube. It reads "Heavenly Peace in the City That Never Sleeps" but, in a moment of sacrilege to rival......

On Sunday, the London Transport Museum hosted the second of its semi-regular Heritage Train Days, between Harrow and Amersham. Having previewed it back in August, we were kindly invited along for the ride. The featured attraction, a 1938 Northern Line train, last saw regular service in the Seventies but has found itself a cosy retirement as a timepiece from the Tube's storied past. Within well-maintained red carriages, a mixture of epochs are found: period furnishings......

Today is not a good day for travelling on many levels. Firstly, forget your romantic weekend in Paris, Eurostar won't be running any trains today following yesterday's freight train fire in the Channel Tunnel. St Pancras is likely to be chocka full of disgruntled passengers so we say steer clear and check Eurostar's website for more information. Secondly, First Bus are striking over pay again so check with TFL before you leave for work to......

Hot-foot it to St Pancras, buy a ticket, board the Eurostar, and you could be swanning down the Champs-Élysées or loafing through the Jardin du Luxembourg in a little over 2 hours. Not quick enough for you? What if the journey time was reduced to under two hours. Impossible? Not according to Air France who, despite their aviation-inspired name, are planning to run trains through the Channel Tunnel when Eurostar's monopoly ends in 2010.......

Time is running out for TfL's competition to design a new Routemaster - it closes in just over a week. But a recently republished article from the Blueprint archive reveals that this is not the first time Londoners have been solicited for their ideas on how to build a better bus. For its 25th anniversary issue, on sale now, architecture and design journal Blueprint has chosen a selection of the best journalism over its......

After the usual screams of anguish from the Evening Standard editorials have died away there are some more ominous signs in last week's traditional September bundle of joy: the TfL new year fare package. "Tough choices around some unfunded transport projects" are to be made, and politics aside, Recessionist sees little light, and quite possibly fewer trains, in the tunnel ahead... 'Tough choices' - have been responsible for many of the irritating abnormalities of......

The Press Association is celebrating its 140th anniversary by putting some of its finest photos on disply. The gallery space they've chosen happens to be St. Pancras International. The shots feature different aspects of British life from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee portrait from 1897 to Beijing Olympic medalists from last month. In between, there are snaps of Twiggy, a still from the set of The Avengers, Fashion Week statements, and a certain clock tower......

With summer in its death throes (or, if you rather, with autumn firmly set in), opportunities to get out and enjoy the, um, nice, weather are waning. But opportunities to show off your bicycle are plentiful. London's second annual Freewheel is later this month, and looming fare hikes on the buses and tube are as good a reason as any to start pedaling. But if you just want to look good while rolling around......

From tomorrow, watch out for brand new poster art works, inspired by the ubiquitous tube roundel, which is celebrating its 100th birthday, on a platform near you. The posters are teasers to tempt you to an exhibition of 100 new roundel artworks at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch, where we told you to go and see the Le Gun thing, between 8-30 October.......

Boris may have dumped Oyster operator TranSys last month, but back in November they and TfL were playing nice and managed to put together an Oyster phone trial. The "Oyster Wallet", a pimped-out Nokia handset that could be used to pay for tube journeys and small purchases, was handed out to 500 Londoners for a six month period. The trial concluded this week, and early word is that it was a success. 89% said they'd......

Mayor urged to endorse cross-river tram plan. St Pancras to Peckham? Sorted Stop-and-search policy criticised by ex-head of the Met's homicide prevention unit Top cop in charge of 2012 Olympics security claims he's being racially discriminated against Ramsay rumbled: there's a new top restaurant in town. We're sure Gordon took the news calmly South London squatters told to sling their hook Lethal weapons: one-man gun factory jailed for life Bus strike to begin tomorrow.......

Is officially the most crowded train in London. Well, the most crowded train in London that's been measured by the Department for Transport. Well done, that man, for counting heads at Surbiton when all those poor, rammed together, suburban commuters just wanted to get the hell to work. The 8 carriage train had 318 more people than seats. That's precision statistics, there. But we'd like to challenge the 8.02 South West Trains service with London......

Like a schoolboy clutching a scrap of dog-chewed homework after he's already flunked the course, the London Overground, which despite a change of name and snazzy new livery has failed to improve much, will for the remainder of 2008 have a convenient excuse for its habitual awfulness. Parts of the network are being suspended to allow engineering works and track upgrades to be performed. The closures will run as follows: Gospel Oak to Willesden......

Fed up of inner city weekends, packed tube trains and tourist filled streets? The London Transport Museum is offering you a flavour of gentler, more graceful travelling times with a "Heritage Day Out in Metro-Land". On Sunday 14 September, 2 historic trains will be shuttling the suburban journey between Harrow and Amersham. A 1938 art deco tube train will be returning to passenger service again for this special day out and the even older,......

Little Venice today welcomes one of its big sister's more notable icons - the gondola. Well, sort of. British Waterways have licensed a number of paddle-powered taxis to plow along the Regent's, Grand Union and Hertford canals, and today the fleet of ten take to the water for the first time. 'Expert' canoeists (of which we've currently got a few doing rather well in Beijing) will pilot anybody willing to fork out £50 per......