The London Traveler

Transport for London (TfL) has now announced the two winners of the competition to design the new Routemaster. One is a joint venture between Aston Martin (who obviously think the credit crunch make buses a better bet than luxury cars!) and Foster + Partners, and the other was designed by Capoco, a firm which designs buses, coaches and trucks.
I suspect a lot of people will be disappointed. Neither of these creations actually looks like the much-loved RM. In particular, the radiator of the Capoco design looks very squashed – not the friendly ‘face’ of the traditional bus, but a pudgy …read more

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Boris Johnson has just dramatically cut London’s future transport plans.  And he’s also announced that the fares Londoners pay will be going up.
Boris is cutting a whole raft of projects:

the Thames Gateway Bridge
the Cross River Tram (Euston to Waterloo – two very badly served termini)
extension  of the Docklands Light Railway to Dagenham
tram extension to from Crystal Palace to Croydon
the Oxford Street tram
plans for bus routes on two new estates in East London.

At the same time he’s said fares will rise by 1% more than inflation. That basically means 6% or more for next year, I’d reckon.
To be fair Boris does …read more

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