tfl

Welcome to the 'tfl' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'tfl'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “tfl”

• Bike vs London Underground

  
  London Cyclist Blog — Authority: 122
  What is faster – the London Underground or a bicycle? Video included at the end of this post Everyone can remember the excellent Top Gear episode where Richard Hammond travelled by bike to London City Airport and beat his co-presenters who between them used a car, a boat and public transport. It made for a ...
  15 hours ago

• Bashing Boris Bombshell in Canning Town

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 512
  This morning there was a mass Labour Party leaflet protest across London at underground and rail stations to protest against the Tory Mayor’s fare increases (see previous post). Many of the stations in Newham had protestors handing out leaflets despite the freezing weather (I had 5 layers, gloves, hat and an UNISON ...
  1 day ago

• Boris Fares Bombshell

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 512
  (Labour Party Party) On Monday January 4th millions of Londoners returning to work after the Christmas and New Year break will be hit by Boris Johnson’s above-inflation fare increase. The fares hike, which kicks in on Saturday January 2nd, will see: * A single bus journey by Oyster UP 20% to £1.20 * A weekly ...
  1 day ago

• Boris Johnsons Bad Fare Day

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 512
  Hat-tip Socialist Unity .  Double click scan to bring up details.
  3 days ago

• The French Laundry (with an Ad Hoc chaser)

  
  inuyaki.com | 'surprisingly good' - Newsweek, 7.20.09 — Authority: 106
  We went to The French Laundry last year around this time and didn’t think we would be back so soon. But when our friend Simone said she had a reservation for four to celebrate her boyfriend Seb’s birthday on December 20 and asked us to join them, the only real answer was, “Hell, yes!” Seb and Simone ...
  5 days ago

• New London Bus coming soon

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 139
  Efforts to give one of the most iconic symbols of London transport an environmental makeover have taken another step forward after Transport for London (TfL) selected Wrightbus as its preferred manufacturer.The New Bus for London will be based on the iconic Routemaster after TfL held an open design contest for new ...
  1 week ago

• Woolwich Ferry service deteriorates under Serco

  
  Tory Troll — Authority: 470
  Anyone using the Woolwich Ferry within the last year will have noticed a severe deterioration in the service. The route which Boris Johnson transferred to Serco last year , has run with just two or even one boat for much of the year. So poorly operated has it been that at one point Serco closed the entire ...
  2 weeks ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  2 weeks ago

• 25,000 Charging Stations in London by 2015

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 131
  electric-car-charge-plug.jpg London Mayor Boris Johnson revealed his electric vehicle plans for the UK capital, which included a promise that no Londoner would be more than one mile from a charging point by 2015.
  2 weeks ago

• Mystic Wolmar on the ball. Tube Lines not.

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 135
  Telegrammed by our International Correspondent Mystic Wolmars crystal ball is working well these days. On the 13th December he predicted the demise of Tube Lines, the other half of the dead and rotting PPP Siamese twin, Metrodebt. Lo and behold today Regulator Bolt obliged, favouring LULs projected £4 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  2 weeks ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  3 weeks ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  3 weeks ago

• GLA PLENARY QUESTION TIME – 9/12/09

  
  Richard Barnbrook — Authority: 109
  Last Wednesday I had an opportunity to question Boris Johnson in his capacity as Chairman of Transport for London (TfL) and Peter Hendy Chief Excutive of TfL. My question is detailed below: If Tube Lines do not renew their Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contract at the end of 2009, what are the contingency plans ...
  3 weeks ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  3 weeks ago

Comments about tfl