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South London council turns 130 car parking spaces into e-bike bays to put brakes on pavement parking

Lambeth will require all e-bikes to be left in designated parking spaces under crackdown on dumped cycles

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Lime launches smaller e-bike that aims to get more women cycling in London

About 1,500 of the new e-bikes are due to be rolled out in the capital from next month

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Cutty Sark DLR station reopens after 10-month closure - but will close again this weekend

The station had been branded a national disgrace and not fit for purpose but four new escalators have brought it back to life

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Sadiq Khan takes swing at London golf courses in affordable homes plan

Car parks also on hit list as City Hall draws up plans for 880,000 new homes

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Rising demand for e-scooter rental in London, TfL report finds

The trial has expanded significantly in the last year, with e-scooters now operating in 11 London boroughs

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Safer routes are vital to get more women riding bikes, say London's most inspirational women cyclists

Safety upgrade of Lambeth bridge, where Moira Gemmill was killed cycling more than a decade ago, is due to be completed next month

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'London needs a citywide e-bike and e-scooter licensing scheme now', ministers told

Transport minister ‘shares the concerns’ about e-bikes being dumped on pavements

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OPINION - Hands off! Free travel is a well deserved perk for London's over 60s

The 60+ Oyster Pass and the Freedom Pass concessions are good for London

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'London is a cycling Wild West': Lycra louts are flouting law in front of police, Lords told

Bikers on pavements in the capital have made them potentially as dangerous as the roads, says a former minister

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Ride on time! New 'green' ferry can transport 100 cyclists across River Thames every 10 minutes

But campaigners say the Orbit Clipper, which will link Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf, is ‘unacceptably expensive’ at £4.10 per crossing

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Tube graffiti 'off the scale' as vandals return and leave Central line trains covered in tags

TfL says its cleaners are removing a graffiti tag every three minutes from London Underground trains, with problem seemingly on the rise

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Inside Britain's biggest-ever trains refurb: £100m project to keep 300 London commuter trains on track for another 15 years

Southern’s entire Electrostar fleet now has phone-charging points and better wifi

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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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Boris bikes fight back against Lime: £40m sponsorship deal keeps TfL scheme on the road until 2032

Number of e-bikes due to rise to 5,000 as Santander agrees to continue investing in London’s original hire bike scheme

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Lime bikes chief executive reveals huge expansion vision: 'We want to be in every borough in London'

E-bikes currently available for hire in 17 boroughs - but firm has sights set on all 33 after ridership soars during Tube strike

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Caught on camera: Red light-jumping cyclists bring danger to pedestrians during Tube strike

Two million trips a day being made by bike as cycling tsar makes safety plea for riders to obey Highway Code

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Tube strike breakthrough: TfL opens Northern line as RMT chief Eddie Dempsey blasts Sadiq Khan

Union boss demands that London mayor invites him to negotiating table: ‘I don’t give a monkey’s if it’s a pool table, a billiards table or a dinner table’

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Sadiq Khan refuses to intervene in Tube strike as commuters face 'torrid Tuesday' with DLR staff joining walkout

Mayor says he only intervened in previous dispute because of ‘exceptional circumstances’ and calls on RMT to get back round negotiating table

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London defies the Tube strike: Commuters battle to work on trains, buses and bikes... as RMT threatens more walkouts

‘Make no mistake, more strikes are possible’ says RMT as it calls for ‘material progress’ from TfL to get five-day walkout suspended

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OPINION - When Mayfair is a cesspit of crime, you have to ask is anywhere in this city safe?

The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.

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Vote system change for electing London mayor 'good news for Labour but makes victory harder for Tories and Reform'

Will axing of first past the post encourage Sir Sadiq Khan to seek a fourth term in 2028?

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Foreign worker who put £1,239 work visa on City Hall expenses rumbled in fraud probe - as £9million agency staff bill revealed

Cost of agency workers at London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority rises to almost £9million a year

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Hellish temperatures predicted for the Tube lines — but which is the hottest one?

The London Underground can be unbearable at the best of times, never mind during a heatwave

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Thrill-seekers required! Cable car across the Thames gets glass-floor cabins (and sky-high prices)

Adult tickets for a return trip cost up to £35, with half-price tickets for children

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Behind the scenes at the Brompton factory in west London as Britain's biggest bike firm turns 50

A million of the iconic folding cycles - dubbed the bike equivalent of a Bentley - have been sold worldwide

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