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.
Battle of London's e-bikes: Lime, Forest and Boris bikes compared
There are 50,000 hire bikes in London - but which is the best?
London's new property development hotspot revealed
HS2 boss says Old Oak Common in west London is a target area for developers
50 years on, what caused worst peacetime Tube disaster remains mystery
Questions remain as memorial service held to mark the crash that killed 43 and injured 74
Sadiq Khan wants control of Oxford Street because council 'failed'
Mayor wants to part-pedestrianise the ‘tired’ street and doesn’t want Labour-run authority to be ‘obstacle to progress’
Double whammy fares misery for commuters as Tube and train fares rise
Passengers advised to renew season tickets and Railcards before Sunday
First look at £2m Silvertown bike bus - and what makes it different
Only cyclists will be allowed to use the new bus through Sadiq Khan’s controversial road tunnel under the Thames
Children's nanny receives 120 Ulez fines after 'honest mistake'
Driver suffered ‘severe emotional distress’ after bailiffs turned up at her home and car was clamped
Elizabeth line strikes cancelled as deal reached on driver pay
Aslef had already postponed first two walkouts that were planned for Thursday and Saturday
Inflation-busting London taxi fares rise to curb driver exodus
Number of cabbies falls to historic low as minicab numbers continue to rise
More parking spaces for e-bikes in central London as thousands fined
Up to 5,000 people a month penalised for failing to leave a Lime e-bike in a designated bay in Westminster
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Grandmother 'almost trampled to death' in NYE crowd chaos
Five-hour nightmare on New Year’s Eve after You Me Bum Bum Train party
Breathe in! Three-storey property on sale in Walthamstow for £150,000
Former tenant used to live on narrowboat and says: ‘It’s weirdly spacious in there’
Full list of London council tax hikes as boroughs seek maximum rises
Revealed: Why Wandsworth can set the cheapest bills but Kingston’s are biggest in the capital
London council tax shock: two-thirds of boroughs charge £2,000+ a year
Lib-Dem and Tory boroughs at top of table - while Labour councils will issue cheapest bills
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How much is council tax going up? All 33 London boroughs reveal bills
Average demand in two-thirds of boroughs breaks £2,000 - and will hit almost £2,500 in Kingston and Croydon
Unemployment in London worst in UK, with 1.3m 'economically inactive'
Revealed: the London MPs with most constituents claiming unemployment benefits
Mum pleads for LTN after child cyclist 'sent flying' in hit-and-run
Notorious ‘rat run’ had been earmarked for road safety scheme two years ago
500 Tube passengers injured falling down gap or getting stuck in door
TfL plans safety improvements at Baker Street, Waterloo, Embankment and Leytonstone stations
Railway trespasser jailed after £1.2m chaos to 1,000 Waterloo trains
Man evaded police for several days but now faces 18 months in prison
Sadiq Khan makes police cuts pledge after £83m council tax windfall
Mayor’s pledge comes as seven more London boroughs announce council tax hikes from April
Huge increase in cost of parking fines across London approved
Councils seek first increase in fines since 2010 to tackle epidemic of ‘anti-social and obstructive parking’