Having already established itself as an urban companion in key cities around the world, free taxi hailing app Hailo has teamed with Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity in an attempt to raise £10,000 to fund one year of hospital transport for London’s terminally ill children. The campaign will run from the 1st to the 10th of […]
Read More >The iconic London Underground network map has had many an interpretation made of it, but perhaps nothing ever quite like the enduring creation recently completed by UK Synaesthesia Association president James Wannerton. Synaesthesia is a neurological disorder that lifts sensory boundaries, causing the individual to hold a unique perception of the world as tastes, smells […]
Read More >To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, the Richmond Theatre & Libraries Poetry Group are devoting their August meeting to the theme ‘Years on the Tube’. As part of this session, 73-year-old retired oil company employee Lionel Griffiths has been asked to create a piece of work for the group. An avid poet, […]
Read More >Tracing back to the 1990s, Manchester’s overground Metrolink light railway has since been subjected to a series of updates intended to strengthen and extend the city’s public transport network into its outser suburbs. Now juggling a circulation of 6 branch lines emerging from the centre of Manchester, Transport for Greater Manchester’s system offers connections between […]
Read More >The vast majority of us have experienced some form of transport delay – from cancelled trains to the overcrowded rush hour tube which can’t possibly fit another passenger inside. The automatic distraction is often to turn to our smart devices, checking e-mails and tweeting angrily about our travel misfortune. BSkyB-owned public WiFi service The Cloud currently offers 15 […]
Read More >Up until 1978, the Pope would have made public appearances on a gestatorial chair – the posh version of a sedan chair – carried by his pontifical crew. Reigning between 1963 and 1978, Pope Paul VI experienced the taste of a new trend by riding the papal Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman-Landaulet vehicle, while his successor John […]
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