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Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead

28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need... more

Tube delays as network is named best in Europe

27.04.09
Tens of thousands of Tube commuters suffered major disruption today, just as London Underground bosses boasted the system was the best in Europe and reliability is improving... more

Don’t push London too far, Mr Brown, you’ll kill off your golden goose

23.04.09
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Victoria line comes to a halt in ‘rock solid’ train driver strike

22.04.09
Thousands of Tube commuters suffered major disruption today as strike action by train drivers over safety concerns shut down the Victoria line... more

Mind the gap: departing Tube chief warns of £2bn black hole

17.04.09
Gordon Brown's £30 billion Public Private Partnership to refurbish the Tube has wasted public money, says the managing director of London Underground... more

Ministers and Met in the dock

17.04.09
It has not been a good week for London's police or for their ultimate boss, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith... more

Boris tells TfL bosses they must slash their bonuses and salaries

08.04.09
London transport chiefs are to have their pay frozen and their bonuses slashed on the orders of the Mayor Boris Johnson... more

Paying the price of PPP's failures

19.03.09
A report by the London Assembly's Transport Committee on the state of the Underground will do little to raise passengers' mood... more

£1bn shortfall brings Tube upgrade to halt

19.03.09
Improvements to Tube stations and the Underground network have been halted because of a £1billion funding shortfall, a report reveals... more

You’ve brought the Tube to its knees, Gordon. Now take the blame

17.03.09
The Treasury has told the Mayor he must fill a looming £1.4 billion hole in the capital’s transport budget. Yet it was Whitehall that got us in this mess from the start ... more

Now let’s change the way we run the Tube

02.03.09
All Tube users are familiar with unconvincing excuses, and Tim O’Toole’s resignation last week as head of the Underground produced a vintage crop... more

Enough of banks, spend money on the Tube, Gordon

26.02.09
I wonder if the next boss of London Underground will have better luck sorting out the Tube than his predecessors... more

Tube chief quits £450,000 job

25.02.09
The man in charge of running the Tube has quit after six years, despite Mayor Boris Johnson's pleas for him to stay... more

Departure of this quiet American leaves London poorer

25.02.09
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Are the fat cats of TfL taking us for a ride?

09.02.09
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Revealed... the TfL bosses who earn more than Gordon Brown

09.02.09
The Mayor is urged to reform TfL as an Evening Standard investigation shows that more than 100 of London’s top transport chiefs are riding a gravy train... more

Peter Hendy: I do get on better with Boris than Ken

03.02.09
Livingstone’s TfL boss Peter Hendy was widely expected to be sacked by Boris Johnson. Here, he talks for the first time about surviving regime change... more

'Normal life' deterred more suicide bombs, says Tube chief

29.01.09
The speed at which Londoners got back to normal life after the 7/7 bombings helped to deter further terror attacks on the Tube, MPs were told... more

Tube upgrade at risk in £1.4bn shortfall, says LU

13.11.08
Major Tube upgrade projects could be under threat unless extra funds are found to plug a £1.4 billion cash shortfall, the boss of London Underground has warned... more

Mayor and Adonis clash over £1.4billion Tube funding crisis

05.11.08
Boris Johnson has launched a ferocious attack on the Government for refusing to stump up more money for the Tube upgrade... more

Tube must not be victim says chief

31.10.08
Tube chief Tim O'Toole has warned that funding the £16billion Crossrail project must not starve the Underground of desperately needed cash... more

White Tube worker wins racism tribunal

14.10.08
London Underground is accused of "institutional racism" against white workers after a 7/7 hero won a racial discrimination claim... more

Running London

08.10.08
Running the capital involves many leaders outside City Hall to cater for Londoners' lives, as this list shows...... more

Revealed: why Boris had to draw blood in the battle for power

20.08.08
The departure of first deputy mayor Tim Parker is being seen as a blunder by Boris. But it was the millionaire businessman's own thirst for power that led to his downfall... more

Passengers suffer but TfL pays 123 staff over £100,000

25.06.08
London's top five transport chiefs earned more than £300,000 each last year despite continued delays and overcrowding on the Tube and bus network... more

Blair gives secret tips to Ken election team

24.04.08
Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell have been secretly giving advice to Labour campaign chiefs on how to get Ken Livingstone re-elected, it emerged... more

Boris: Bank chief will be one of my City Hall aides

15.04.08
Boris Johnson has named Barclays Capital boss Bob Diamond as one of his key advisers for City Hall... more

Revealed: Metronet's £144,000 a year labourers

18.03.08
The astonishing pay rates charged by Metronet for its workers can be revealed today... more

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