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London’s Oyster card may send the iconic tube map underground
disassociated.com —
Authority: 148
The Oyster card – which allows holders to blend whatever modes of public transport they choose in London – could bring about the demise of the iconic London Underground tube map as designers struggle to find a way to incorporate all of London’s public transport systems onto one – easy to comprehend – ...2 days ago -
How bad is the “Tube”?
UK News —
Authority: 500
News that London Underground suffers from terrible problems with overcrowding probably not really going to surprise many commuters. From unbearable heat or the sweaty odours emanating from fellow passengers during the summer months, to being unceremoniously poked with umbrellas in the winter, travellers on the ...3 days ago -
Reliving Wuthering Heights
The Year Zero —
Authority: 126
This morning I left home at 7.15am to be instantly confronted by heavy, driving, squally rain – gigantic puddles and a cold, biting wind. This, in pitch black – the joys of living in Northern Europe in winter. It was a most unpleasant 12 minute power-walk to the station. It also became quite readily apparent that ...4 days ago -
Fury of 7/7 relatives as bombers share same inquests
Muslims Against Sharia —
Authority: 611
RELATIVES of the 52 people killed in the 7/7 London bombings reacted with anger yesterday after they were told the inquests will also include the legal examination of the deaths of the four suicide bombers who killed them. Lady Justice Hallett, the specially appointed coroner, said that the long delayed hearings ...1 week ago -
Catch the last fully circular Circle Line train
IanVisits - The Blog —
Authority: 489
As I am betting you are probably aware, the Circle Line is shortly to be uncoiled and turned into something that is still called a circle, but is most certainly not. As with most changes on the train networks, there is inevitably a moment of handover from old to new. I’ve been having a thought, and decided that it ...1 week ago -
When is a Circle not a Circle?
The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News —
Authority: 442
London Underground changes Circle Line to a Tadpole. For those of you who used to sit on the Circle Line and revise for your exams, grabbing a coffee every time you past Victoria (I’m looking at you Gyles Brandreth!), those times are long gone. The Circle Line is no longer a circle . Trains will now stop ...1 week ago -
Tube Lines chief executive Dean Finch admits it will miss Jubilee Line deadline and faces £100m bill
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
Authority: 970
Dean Finch the chief executive of Tube Lines has admitted it will miss the deadline for the upgrade of the Jubilee Line by almost a year with the extra costs of about £100m a concern to the company.1 week ago -
London Oyster card extension
ICM Commercial & Business News —
Authority: 139
London’s pay as you go Oyster card will be valid for Network Rail passengers who use the service within the Greater London area, and on all Thames River Clipper services from 2 January 2010. This will mean that the Oyster pay as you go card will be valid at more than 350 rail stations within London, in a project ...1 week ago -
Typo Leads To Interesting Find
RErockstar.com —
Authority: 421
Oops, I didn’t mean that. This morning, I was heading over to my YouTube videos to grab the embed code for something when I made a mistake. Instead of typing “youtube,” I inadvertently threw in an extra letter and wound up with “you r tube.” Typically when I make a mistake in a URL, it results in a page ...1 week ago -
Jubilee Line upgrade will cost £100m more and overrun by almost a year
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
Authority: 970
Chief executive of Tube Lines admits it will miss its deadline with the consequent extra costs of about £100m a concern to the company.1 week ago -
Circle Line no longer a loop but is the new design a tadpole bottle or yoyo?
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
Authority: 970
The Circle Line of the London Underground will cease to be a continuous loop from next month with the opening of a new extension.1 week ago -
OysterCard max fare rip-off: background information
'mu:kaumedia —
Authority: 112
Have you been had by the OysterCard ‘max fare’ rip-off? I bleedin’ well ‘ave I got ripped off to the tune of £10 in just four short journeys last week. I blogged about it here . My point was – and still is - what do you call a system that lets you through the barriers knowing it’s going to ...1 week ago -
Synchronicity of shape
W-wa Jeziorki —
Authority: 125
Arriving at W-wa Powiśle this morning, I notice that the neon lights announcing the station name, above the eastern (low-level) entrance to the station have been fixed ( below ). Ever since the building had been turned over to a private-sector cafe operator, the place has been more beckoning. I guess by next spring, ...2 weeks ago -
Down in the tube station at 18:48
Inveresk Street Ingrate —
Authority: 131
Just spotted this intriguing picture of Engels plastered* across a London Underground tube train advertising panel over at Solomons Mindfield blog. No, its not Workers Power trying to do Banksy but part of London Undergrounds most recent Art On The Underground campaign. (See the Mayor of London blurb in the ...2 weeks ago -
Johann Hari: Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
Muslims Against Sharia —
Authority: 611
A generation of British Islamists have been trained in Afghanistan to fight a global jihad. But now some of those would-be extremists have had a change of heart. Johann Hari finds out what made them give up the fight Ever since I started meeting jihadis, I have been struck by one thing – their Britishness. I ...2 weeks ago -
cleaners are not objects to be bought and sold!
the commune —
Authority: 136
Join the protest 12 noon, Weds 18 November, Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6NU The cleaning contract on London Underground’s Bakerloo, Victoria and Central Lines is set to be renegotiated and a new company is expected to grab it. It is likely to demand new (and worse) conditions and will trawl ...2 weeks ago -
As I look at the ladies, you look at me
YesBut's Images —
Authority: 144
Click on image to enlarge Click on thumbnail to visit B&W Gallery Posted in Abstract, Art, Copyright © All text and images by YesBut, Digital art, Digital photography, foto, fotos, humour, internet, Life, London, Nikon D40, people, photo, photo blog, photoblog, Photography, photos, pictures, Street ...2 weeks ago -
U.S. Highways Mapped Like a London Subway System
The Jailbreak —
Authority: 526
Portland-based graphic designer and photographer, Cameron Booth , has re-imagined the Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck’s iconic London Underground Diagram. His map color codes the major highways of the United States Interstate System, and comes with a handy key marking where each one begins ...2 weeks ago -
Going underground
Matthew Taylor's blog —
Authority: 490
A week of madness lies ahead with seven speeches on different topics including three on Wednesday alone! Anyone out there recruiting to the Trappists should think of approaching me on Friday, so sick will I then be of the sound of my own voice (presumably Trappists rely on direct mail rather than telephone sales for ...2 weeks ago -
Waiting – looking around
YesBut's Images —
Authority: 144
Click on thumbnail to view B&W Gallery Posted in Abstract, Architecture, Art, Business, Copyright © All text and images by YesBut, Digital art, Digital photography, foto, fotos, humour, internet, Life, London, Nikon D40, people, photo, photo blog, photoblog, Photography, photos, pictures, Street Art, ...2 weeks ago
