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....
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.
Since the pandemic Southeastern requires a taxpayer subsidy of more than £1 million a day
The low-traffic neighbourhood scheme resulted in 15,000 fewer cars a day, the council says
The event has been moved online due to fears for the mayor’s safety
Details emerge of the train schedules that will run as Transport for London tries to mitigate long-term problems with broken trains
Plan follows meeting with Sadiq Khan, who said the issues over the past six months were ‘not acceptable’
London mayoral rivals join forces to condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia
‘I’m delighted that this pay offer has now been accepted by all four unions’
No arrests made after incident in west London
Government orders inspectors into council amid concerns about appointments and spending
Piers Corbyn speaks to the Standard after being removed from City Hall by security guards who believed he planned to disrupt Mayor’s Question Time
City Hall’s deputy mayor for culture talks the Fourth Plinth, East Bank and what it was like to work for Ken, Boris and Sadiq
Tory candidate for London mayor vows to crack down on knife crime and introduce specialist units to tackle burglaries, robberies and thefts
Department for Transport to retain ‘plug-in taxi grant’ which reduces purchase price of a ‘zero emission capable’ black cab
The Bakerloo line clocked up a total of 630,500 ‘lost customer hours’ in 2022/23, up 370 per cent on 2012, due to 589 train cancellations
Commissioner expects £123m a year to plug gap in finances caused by mayor’s decision not to raise Tube and bus fares
TfL says improvements to the roundabout are required after 59 people were hurt in collisions in the three years to last May
Kingston – which shares a border with Wandsworth in Roehampton Vale - is again expected to set the highest bills
Almost one in five Londoners entitled to vote are not on the electoral register – the biggest proportion in the country
Sadiq Khan found an ‘extra’ £30million for the salary boost at the 11th hour in early January
Six branches of the network will be rebranded, ending the orange format of all Overground routes on the Tube map