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The London Buzz – 8th January 2025

08-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Protestors gathered in the rain to rally against the latest attempt to knock down a “historic” building in Abbots Langley. Watford Observer
A senior member of the London Assembly is under police investigation in connection with what is understood to be a serious allegation against him. OnLondon
Regent Street evacuated and controlled explosions carried out over ‘bomb threat’ Metro
Camden Council says it has the power to remove footway o

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TfL’s discounted Friday fares trial fell flat with Londoners

08-01-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A discounted fares trial to encourage people to travel to work on Fridays had no meaningful effect on passenger numbers, a TfL report has found.Announced last January, before the National Rail train companies were involved in implementing it, the scheme set aside £24 million of GLA funds to subsidise the cost of Friday travel at peak hours to off-peak rates.
The thinking was that lower fares might encourage more people to travel.
The scheme came into effect on 8th March and lasted until 31

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A baffling environmental exhibition at Science Gallery London

08-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

An exhibition showing artists’ responses to the environment around them could be really insightful or baffling. This is baffling with a capital Baff.The Science Gallery, next to London Bridge, tries to tell science through the medium of art, and very occasionally, it works well, but far more often, I have wandered out asking myself, “What on earth was that?”
So, an exhibition about the environment, and rather than climate change, it’s about human relationships with the en

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20 year old Southeastern trains to get mid-life refurbishment

08-01-2025 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Southeastern’s 20-year-old Class 376 Electrostar trains are to undergo a mid-life refurbishment and upgrade of the passenger facilities.
376 and 707 trains at Grove Park (c) Southwastern
The white fleet will also be repainted in the dark blue that Southeastern now uses for its newer trains. The 36 Class 376 Electrostars will also gain USB/power sockets and energy-efficient LED lighting as part of the refurbishment.
The work is getting underway at the Ashford Maintenance Centre with the fir

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Three canal sculptures for the City Road

08-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Three sculptures next to Islington’s City Road Basin remind visitors of the area’s faded but still visible canal cargo heritage.The City Road Basin was a large cargo-handling “dock” that was constructed next to the Regents Canal and opened in 1820. It quickly became London’s busiest inland cargo-handling site. As with most of the canals, it fell into disuse from the 1950s, and an attempt to fill in the entire dock was successfully opposed in the 1970s.
Although toda

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