Ross Lydall is City Hall Editor and Transport Editor at The Standard. He reports on the Mayor, Transport for London, City Hall politics, cycling, planes, trains and automobiles. In more than 20 years at The Standard, he has covered it all: Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan, 7/7, the London Olympics, the covid pandemic and royal weddings. He was shortlisted as 2023 multimedia journalist of the year....
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Ross Lydall is City Hall Editor and Transport Editor at The Standard. He reports on the Mayor, Transport for London, City Hall politics, cycling, planes, trains and automobiles. In more than 20 years at The Standard, he has covered it all: Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan, 7/7, the London Olympics, the covid pandemic and royal weddings. He was shortlisted as 2023 multimedia journalist of the year.
Week of strike chaos to hit the Tube in New Year
Seven days of rolling strikes planned for early January that are set to bring misery to commuters
‘Nightmare’ Hyde Park Corner overcrowding & Tube strike service pledge
‘Staggering levels of antisocial behaviour’, says station worker
Sadiq Khan 'should use new laws to reduce impact of Tube strike'
Transport Secretary Mark Harper calls on mayor to use 'minimum service levels' legislation - as TfL opens new talks with RMT to avert walkout
Tube station 'nightmare' as crowds return from Winter Wonderland
'What I witnessed during December 9 and particularly December 10 has been nothing short of appalling'
Private sector will pay for HS2 Euston tunnel, minister insists
The National Infrastructure Commission warns that developers will not pay for the tunnelling works
RMT set to agree Tube strike dates after rejecting 5% pay offer
RMT union members voted 90.5% in favour of taking strike action in bid to win better deal from TfL
TfL considers Taylor Swift-style 'dynamic pricing' for Tube journeys
A Government announcement on rail fare rises is due imminently
Paddington station to shut for four days from Christmas Eve
Victoria station will also be closed to passengers using Southeastern services King’s Cross will be closed on Christmas Eve
Sadiq Khan hikes his share of council tax bills by almost £40
Average household to pay £471 a year to City Hall as total bills set to break £2,000 in 15 boroughs
Sadiq Khan's £500m transport plans curtailed by Government
One-year deal safeguards Piccadilly line upgrade but raises questions about Bakerloo line
Sadiq Khan cracks pickpocketing joke in dig at Tory rival Susan Hall
Mayor sees first CCTV cameras on Central line as he insists Tube is 'low crime environment'
'Boris buses' slammed by mayor seven years ago set for Superloop
City Hall said on Friday that all buses on the SL3 would be "Ulez compliant euro VI hybrid buses"
Tube strike looms as Underground staff 'split on pay deal'
Vote against pay deal by RMT is likely to mean more strikes on the Underground, probably in early January
Liverpool Street now UK's busiest station due to Elizabeth line
New line also saw Paddington become second busiest station in the country
Susan Hall urges Jeremy Hunt to scrap 'tourist tax' for London
The Standard has been campaigning for the reintroduction of VAT-free shopping for tourists
Sadiq Khan ‘deeply concerned’ after four-hour Elizabeth line halt
4,000 travellers were stranded for hours when seven trains came to a standstill
‘Green’ ferry Thames service proposed for north-south connections
Three potential routes could be operated on a ‘turn up and go’ basis by 2026
US baseball games at Olympic stadium delivered £53m economy boost
110,000 fans attended the Major League Baseball games between the St Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in June
Hope rogue West End pedicabs could be outlawed by Spring
Transport minister visits central London to see evidence that customers have been 'well and truly ripped-off'
Tube staff praised after Northern Line chaos caused by suspected fire
All passengers had been evacuated from the train within 11 minutes of the onboard alarm being pressed
Rail chief apologises to thousands hit by Paddington chaos
Network Rail boss Andrew Haines, who was on board one of stuck trains, said ‘we have gone backwards’ and ‘system failed'