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The Latest Breaking News from Seb Dance

Battersea Power Station 'milestone moment': £21 million Tube station entrance opens onto new pedestrianised high street

Debate over station’s name continues as deputy mayor reveals: ‘I do like saying Battersea Power Station station’

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City Hall pay rises take Sadiq Khan's top aides above £150,000 (but no decision on mayor's new salary)

Exclusive: the annual increases received by mayor’s inner circle

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Busy Tube and Overground station latest to be hit by fire brigade ban on 'community book swap' scheme

Blackhorse Road loses free book exchange despite mayor’s pledge to intervene

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'Planets aligning' for Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham and Hayes, as new campaign launches

Backing from London’s business community is crucial for making the project ‘unstoppable’, a senior TfL official has said

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Campaign to save east London mechanic who faces eviction after falling £112k behind on rent

Len Maloney of JC Motors says his rent has become unaffordable, after it was more than doubled in the years leading up to the pandemic

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City Hall to 'consider' DLR extension to Barking Riverside, deputy mayor confirms

A planned DLR extension to Thamesmead will be built to enable further branches, the London Assembly has been told

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Sadiq Khan set to miss key target in bid to pull Londoners away from cars to greener transport

The mayor wants 80 per cent of London journeys to be made on foot, by bike or public transport by 2041

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Sadiq Khan's fares freeze could cost £500m over the next four years, TfL commissioner reveals

Commissioner expects £123m a year to plug gap in finances caused by mayor’s decision not to raise Tube and bus fares

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TfL considers Taylor Swift-style 'dynamic pricing' for Tube journeys

A Government announcement on rail fare rises is due imminently

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London to get more ultra-rapid charging hubs for electric vehicles

New ultra-rapid charging hubs will be located in Hanger Lane, Canning Town, Hillingdon Circus, Hatton Cross and Tottenham Hale

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Concern over impact of 'unprecedented development' on south-west London's transport

A petition warns that the area already struggles with 'regular and serious levels of traffic congestion'

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City Hall to consider MP’s call to grant Ulez exemption for hospice staff and patients

Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, made the request in a letter to Seb Dance, London’s deputy mayor of transport

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Project to name each London Overground line underway

Posters have been put up in stations informing people of the plans and encouraging them to get involved

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TfL unveils over 80 new zero-emission buses in Sutton, with health message

City Hall hopes the buses - along with the expanded Ulez - will improve Londoners’ health

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Deputy mayor welcomes competition among London cycle hire companies

Seb Dance’s remarks come after data showed TfL’s own cycle hire scheme declining in use

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Deputy mayor: Ulez scrappage scheme is big enough to help every Londoner who applies

The Ulez will expand to cover all of Greater London on Tuesday next week (August 29)

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Deputy London mayor accused over Ulez emails pulls out of media appearance

Shirley Rodrigues was due to answer journalists’ questions on Monday.

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Havering Council considering a ‘North/South Tram’ concept to improve transport links

The authority said it was also considering other forms of light rail, or possibly a ‘rapid bus’

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London day travelcards to be phased out

Daily paper ticket to be scrapped as TfL seeks to generate more income

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EU transport chief signals support for train company competition against Eurostar

Adina Vălean, the EU’s Transport Commissioner, has joined UK Rail minister Huw Merriman in expressing support for rival train companies to use the cross-Channel route

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Dazzling LGBTQ-themed bus and train wraps launched by TfL for Pride

A bus, Overground train, and Elizabeth line train, each wrapped in a dazzling design to celebrate Pride, have been unveiled by Transport for London (TfL).

The Independent UK

Conservatives accuse Sadiq Khan of ‘serious misconduct’ over Ulez expansion

The Conservatives released documents which they claim prove Mr Khan and his deputy Seb Dance made ‘untrue and dishonest’ comments.

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Free travel before 9am for over-60s with Oyster or Freedom Pass may never return

Funding gap in Transport for London’s finances means free travel in capital early in the morning may not be restored

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Transport chiefs rule out driverless Tube trains in London ‘in short and medium term’

London’s transport chiefs have ruled out introducing driverless trains on the Tube despite being required to investigate the idea as a condition of the Government’s funding deal.

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Nearly 80 London bus routes face cuts amid funding deal row

TfL’s decision to launch a six week consultation on 78 of its 620 routes in central London has sparked a fierce row

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