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London’s Olympic Velodrome Re-Opens in March (and Schoolkids Will Ride for Free)
Lee Valley VeloPark in Stratford, London, has not been officially used since the 2012 Olympics. That’s soon to change as the firm running the operation, Velo Events, is inviting corporations to bring...
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18 Things You Didn’t Know About London Buses
Buses have a long and interesting history in the capital. Today the Mayor of London is launching the year of the bus, celebrating an iconic symbol of our transport network which carries 6.5 million...
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A Silver Routemaster Will be the Star of London’s “Year of the Bus”
Already today we’ve celebrated the iconic red double decker by revealing 18 little-known facts about London’s buses, and now Mayor Boris Johnson has officially kicked off 2014′s “Year of the Bus” by...
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London Buses to Go Cashless This Summer
Londoners will need to protect their Oyster Cards with their lives come the summer, as all buses are to go cashless. Transport for London bosses say the move to a cashless, Oyster-only fleet will save...
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The Tube Strike: Everything You Need to Know to Survive Commuter Hell
After weeks of seesawing negotiations, Londoners will tonight have to brace themselves for a 48-hour tube strike, severely limiting the transport service that runs like veins beneath the capital’s...
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London’s Newest Farm is an Abandoned Bomb Shelter Deep Beneath the City
What do you do with a bomb shelter when you’re no longer getting Blitzed by the Nazis? For decades, Londoners have searched for ways to make use of old bomb shelters lurking deep underground. They’ve...
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Londoners, Now’s Your Chance to Moan About Your Journey in Today
With 23 per cent of our readers living in London, I’m guessing many of them struggled into work today thanks to Bob Crow’s tube strike. Now, while there’s nothing more dull than hearing of other...
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GetTaxi’s Black Cab Kiosks Will Never Go On Strike
What with today’s tube strike wearing holes into commuter’s shoes, GetTaxi’s launch of a new self-service cab terminal couldn’t be better timed. A simple touchscreen stand, it takes a user’s phone...
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The World’s Most Expensive Wasteland is in London
In the abandoned mansions of Bishops Avenue—London’s second most expensive street—ferns poke through staircases, water runs down walls, and animal skeletons litter the carpets. How is decay blooming...
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Friday’s Tube Revenue Strike Will Open the Floodgates for Fare Evaders
While this week’s 48-hour London Underground walkout may be grabbing all the headlines, there’s also another kind of tube strike happening this Friday and next Monday, one that will make it easier than...
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Take a Tour of the Tate Britain at Night Through the Eyes of a Robot
Unless you’re the night watchman, there are scant few opportunities to explore the Tate Britain gallery after it’s closed for the night to the general public. A new project will let you do the...
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This Week’s London Underground Tube Strike is Called Off (Updated)
Now, let’s not jump for joy just yet, but it’s looking likely that the second bout of London Underground tube strikes, expected to start tonight, may be about to be called off. The TSSA union is...
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London Housing Estate Shows Signs of Colourful Improvement
Housing estates in London are a little intimidating from the outside; many of the post-war structures are hulking brutalist towers surrounded by a complicated labyrinth of monochrome concrete. But one...
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London’s Car-Nuking Deathray Skyscraper Getting Aluminium Fins to Absorb...
The unfortunate Walkie Scorchie, or the London tower with the ability to harness the Sun’s power and melt parked cars on the street below, is set for a redesign. Its owners have applied for permission...
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London’s Iconic Heritage Routemasters to be Scrapped in Favour of Boris Buses
It’s one of the most iconic vehicles on London’s roads, but the ageing red Routemaster bus, currently serving two routes, now seems set to be replaced by the modern hybrid “Boris Bus” entirely. The...
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£90 Million Could Buy You This 21 Bedroom Mayfair Mansion
Now that 95 per cent mortgages are back in fashion again, you’d only need to put down £85m to get yourself in this astonishing house in London’s Mayfair, complete with 21 bedrooms, pool, sauna, a...
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Who Wouldn’t Want This Victorian Mansion With a Spaceship in the Attic?
The owners of this eight-bedroom Victorian property in south London apparently had a knack for juxtaposing classic architecture and high-tech goodies. Case in point: this meticulously detailed cockpit...
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Inside London’s World War II Bunker Turned Massive Underground Farm
Last week, we wrote about a project in London that sounds straight up apocalyptic: A massive underground farm inside a 60-year-old bunker, originally built to protect Londoners from Nazi bombs. Now, we...
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Scientists Built a Fake London Pub to Film Strangers Drinking Alcohol
At London South Bank University’s shiny new pub, the drinks are free but they, uhh, may or may not actually contain alcohol. And it’s not a real pub, actually. Oh, and there are little cameras all over...
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A London Pavement Exploded and Yet, Pedestrians Still Walked on It
Between sinkholes and flooding, I wouldn’t trust stepping out the door at the moment in the UK. Add now to the underfoot dangers exploding pavements, as seen yesterday on London’s Caledonian Road. Is...
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