Tunnelling work on the £2 billion Silvertown Tunnel has begun, a decade after Boris Johnson first proposed the crossing and four years after it was given the go-ahead by the government. Jill, the 82 metre-long tunnel boring machine being used to dig the crossing has been launched, Transport for London confirmed today, putting it on […]
Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter
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‘It’s got to be London’: We’re ready to be Eurovision host city, Sadiq Khan says
London should clearly be chosen as the host of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because the capital has a significant Ukrainian population, Sadiq Khan has said. The UK will host the 2023 competition as this year’s winners Ukraine are unable to perform hosting duties due to the ongoing war with Russia. But as cities including […]
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TfL gets another two-week extension to its emergency funding deal
Transport for London has been granted another short-term extension to its emergency funding deal by the Government, it has been announced. The £200 million bailout agreed in February was set to expire on 24 June but a stalemate in negotiations over a long-term funding agreement saw the deadline extended until 11.59pm this evening. But with […]
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Lifting City Airport Saturday flight ban ‘would be a disgrace’, campaigners say
Campaigners have hit out at plans to expand London City Airport and allow more flights on Saturdays. The airport, in the Royal Docks, has launched a public consultation on its proposals, which include scrapping a ban on flights after 1pm on Saturdays and allowing more flights early in the morning. Bosses want to increase the […]
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Five years on from Grenfell Tower fire, 73 Greenwich buildings still have safety defects
Five years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster, 73 buildings in Greenwich borough still have serious fire safety defects such as flammable cladding, combustible balconies or missing fire breaks, according to data released by City Hall. Events have been taking place across London to mark the anniversary of the fire, which killed 72 people in […]
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Central London buses could move to outer London as 18% cuts loom
The opening of the Elizabeth Line next week could lead to some central London bus services being axed to satisfy demand in outer London as Transport for London contemplates a scenario of “managed decline” with a lack of funding from the government, Sadiq Khan has said. Khan suggested that resources could be moved from central […]
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Strikes due to hit Jubilee Line’s Night Tube from this Saturday
Strike action is set to disrupt the reopening of Night Tube services on the Jubilee Line this weekend, a transport union has confirmed. All-night services will return to the Jubilee Line from Saturday night, having been suspended in March 2020 because of the pandemic. But there may be as few as three trains per hour […]
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Stop building schools in air pollution hotspots, London Assembly told
New schools and affordable housing targeted at young families should not be built in areas of London that are “known pollution hotspots”, the London Assembly has been told. Speaking at a meeting of the assembly’s environment committee on Tuesday, Imperial College London’s Dr Ian Mudway, an expert on air quality, warned that the long-term health […]
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