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The LFB "overwhelming support" actually says "we have particular concern about the risk posed by conversion kits or modified e-bikes". I doubt they'd be worried at all if most bikes met UK/EU safety standards. A wider crackdown on the dangerous modified/non-compliant bikes is needed; they're a...

All services on rails run by Transport for London except the (Croydon) trams, so Underground, Overground, DLR and Elizabeth line throughout, but inconveniently not other operators' services running on the same lines or between the same stations. As referred to above, you should have been given...

From the Senior Railcard website: "Your Railcard is not valid during the morning peak period when travelling between two stations in the Network Railcard area of validity. Check locally to confirm morning peak times as these do differ." Basically then defined by an off-peak ticket being valid...

You really shouldn't have to avoid travelling how you are entitled to, or have to claim refunds, because of poor staff training. The TOC's approach to the gate settings is reasonable, but only if their gateline staff deal correctly with the exceptions; in a previous life I was involved in...

Each transfer of services to TfL (and indeed the original zoning of LU services outside Zone 6 such as Amersham) was treated in isolation at the time it happened, the approach varying depending on the political and economic climate at the time, with TfL and its predecessors historically at least...

...they are. Unhelpful I know, but as the validity is defined by any restriction on the particular A to B journey being made plus any Train Company or route specific restrictions, it's about the only wording that would be definitively correct.

That's my main reservation about TfL's Journey Planner. It's unable to offer the equivalent of what an experienced member of LT/TfL staff would have told you in the past, picking just one or possibly two routes that would invariably work at most times of day, be easy to remember and broadly as...

I'm guessing you thought the story was approaching a natural break when you submitted the final text so the ongoing fiasco must be frustrating! Maybe a second edition in a couple of years assuming the line update reaches some sort of conclusion? The way things are going I wouldn't be surprised...

The Single Fare Finder is pretty clear that the cheaper route is "Avoiding Zone 1 via West Hampstead (or Finchley Road/Finchley Road & Frognal) and Stratford" so anyone checking that would know that travelling via Zone 1 is not a legitimate route and just using a pink reader at Stratford doesn't...

The technology appears to be in the "back office" for calculating fares post-journey rather than on the card itself, and may involve a level of trust that the payment card user is the same person as qualifies for the discount. Sweden may also have less stringent privacy/data protection rules...

I much prefer voting in person; there's something quite uplifting about being part of quite a steady stream of people walking to/from the polling station, even if any one of them could be balancing out my vote. I also like to be able to delay my decision until the last moment though this time...

As I read it, sticking the mag stripe to the ticket is now done in a more environmentally-friendly way, but there are still metal particles stuck to the ticket which will prevent recycling of used tickets as it will corrupt the mix.

A photo of the bike in question (or a link to the model on a legitimate retailer's website) might help us understand how reasonable it would be for a revenue inspector to be concerned about its safety.

The area already existed as a less-demanding Low Emission Zone, and if there were changes for ULEZ they were trivial. The Greater London boundary was the starting point but there needed to be a suitable point for large vehicles to turn round safely or detour at each entry point without just...

Flexible weeks would mean the system having to apply moving 7 day windows and keep reassessing and adjusting the weekly caps already paid for all previous travel to guarantee best value. Depending on the journeys made on each day it might be cheaper to have one or more days charged for that...

Although important to those of us who hold them, these discounts affect a small number of people and are well down the pecking order when it comes to using one of the very limited number of settings the now very outdated Oyster system can cater for (and the developer/database admin staff time...

As I understand it, that's because there's a longstanding difference of opinion with Avanti who didn't like the arrangement they inherited, with the added compication of pick-up/set-down only stops. The unofficial compromise seems to be that if you've been TfL staff since before BR privatisation...

The annual pass is likely to be pitched at pretty much the going rate for a single visit, in line with admission prices for comparable visitor attractions likely to appeal to a typical tourist or family (see Belperpete's comment), as opposed to us enthusiasts. Allowing repeat visits for a year...

Worse still is a driver being told to skip stops then being held at a signal in a platform the train was meant to be skipping. Happened to me once heading London-Horley and having resigned myself to doubling back via Gatwick then spent 5 minutes at Horley unable to get off.

That wasn't the original intention. There was some overthinking when the wording was last updated, to address concerns that just referring to travelling with an adult could be misinterpreted to mean that the adult also didn't need to have any form of travel document. Being peripherally involved...