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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has delivered another key pledge of his election manifesto by announcing that motorcycles will be allowed to use the majority of bus lanes on the capital’s red routes from 5 January next year.

A teenager has narrowly avoided being hit by a train at Worcester Park station while playing “chicken” while his friends smashed windows with bricks, stones and bottles. Four young people were arrested by the Met Police outside the station on Friday for trespassing and endangering safety

Transport for London is considering replacing Oyster with new ticketing systems operated through mobile phones or bankcards, the London Assembly heard.

At a meeting of the Assembly’s Budget and Performance Committee, TfL representatives said they were looking at various technologies and providers to take over from Oyster in 2010.  TfL announced in August that they were terminating early the current contract with TranSys for delivering Oyster ticketing.

The report: ‘Cross River Tram: Proceedings of a seminar held by the London Assembly Transport Committee on 9 September 2008’, makes a number of recommendations that were supported by a majority of Committee Members4, calling on Transport for London to:

• Explore all possible funding options for the Cross River Tram in order to come up with a funding package.

• Undertake and publish detailed analysis of alternatives to the Cross River Tram scheme and systematically compare the different modal options to ensure the most appropriate solution to the problems along the north-south corridor is pursued.

• Continue to work with representatives of affected communities to find solutions to local route issues so not to jeopardise the progress of the scheme.

Bendy-buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London. The atheist posters are the idea of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and have been supported by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins.

The Mayor has delivered another key manifesto commitment to make London's buses safer by announcing that Transport for London have begun a six-month trial of live CCTV on a north London bus route. Twenty one double-decker buses have been fitted with technology that will allow pictures to be beamed live to the Centrecomm control centre shared by officers from Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police’s Transport Operational Command Unit.

Rail passengers in England and Wales face more overcrowding and higher fares until the network is expanded, a spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said direct government control of the railways, begun in 2005, had delivered better value for taxpayers. But future pressure on capacity could reverse any benefits, it warned.

Croydon Tramlink is no more. Instead, any reference to Croydon has been dropped in favour of the name London Tramlink. And at the same time the traditionally red carriages are being painted green.

The re-branding has met with sadness as the town's unique tram system, long hailed as a part of Croydon's identity, becomes lost in Transport for London (TfL). The £2m makeover comes seven months after TfL's £100m buyout from Tramtrack Croydon, in March.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today joined Metropolitan Police Commander Rod Jarman and Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy to announce the 30 locations across London that will benefit from new transport policing teams. This follows the success of three pilot teams launched by the Mayor in May that have reduced some crimes by more than a third.

More pupils in London are walking, cycling or using public transport to get to school, a report says.

Figures collected by Transport for London from 1,200 schools in 32 of the 33 London boroughs show an average reduction in car journeys of 6.4%.