On entering the Shard from London Bridge station, visitors are immediately treated to a glimpse of British humour.
This time we waited until it was nearly dark and went on a tram to London Bridge.
Thirty years ago, the US city bought London Bridge, reportedly believing it to be the landmark Tower Bridge.
Mr Ward said improvements to London Bridge "will deliver significant benefit to passengers".
To have more control of its schedule, Thames Clippers took over the lease of the privately-owned London Bridge City Pier in November.
And three separate incidents of cable theft last week disrupted services in and out of London Paddington and London Bridge and in Sussex.
Four people had to be treated at London Bridge Station after being taken ill in what was initially feared to be a chemical incident.
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Commuters are being urged to avoid London Bridge, one of the hotspot travel stations during the Olympics after overcrowding due to a signal failure.
I've again looked at the modelling and it does show that at some stations such as London Bridge, organisers need a 50% drop in "background" commuters.
During music class at the Bilkent school, third-graders sitting cross-legged on a large carpet sang "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" in Turkish, followed by "London Bridge" in English.
The company said a reduced service was operating from Victoria station, and advised passengers to use Charing Cross, Cannon St, London Bridge and St Pancras stations as alternatives.
Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road stations will lose their services to Victoria, and Denmark Hill will also lose its direct link with London Bridge.
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The company said there would be additional high-speed services through the day and a shuttle service between London Bridge and Cannon Street during the morning and evening peak times.
The Overground service linking Clapham Junction and Surrey Quays will have four trains an hour stopping at these stops, but the trains will not go in to Victoria or London Bridge.
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"The sky's the limit, " replies His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and financial backer of the then proposed new property development at London Bridge.
The buildings represented include Sir Paul's family home at Forthlin Road, the skyline of Liverpool, the Mull of Kintyre, London Bridge and Liverpool Cathedral - where Sir Paul's Liverpool Oratorio was first performed.
Southeastern trains to Charing Cross will not call at London Bridge for a year from 2015 while services to Canon Street will also cease to use the station between 2016 until late 2017.
He told the inquest at Lambeth Town Hall he was working near London Bridge on the day of the fire and found out about the blaze when his wife rang him just before 16.30 BST.
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So a few years and a billion pounds or so later, the great architect delivers his monumental vision - a cloud-tickling skyscraper, a giant gleaming obelisk that emerges from London Bridge train station like a rocket about to take off.
Sailing boats that were too tall to pass under the 14 bridges along the river pageant route lined the river from London Bridge to Wapping, in the east, creating an avenue of sails set against the Tower of London and the city's financial center.
As if to dismiss that as too simple a challenge, according to press reports of the day, he then flew under at least three other, much lower, bridges - London Bridge, Blackfriars and Waterloo - before stepping ashore at Westminster to be greeted by a cheering crowd who had gathered to meet a dignitary expected by boat from Paris.
But others, such as the right to go about the city with a drawn sword, the right to be hanged by a silken rope, the right to drive sheep over London Bridge, the right to be drunk and disorderly in the City, the right to be married in St Paul's Cathedral and buried with the City, may always have been in the realms of folklore.
The weight limit on London Road Bridge has been reduced to 7.5 tonnes from 18 tonnes, but emergency vehicles will still be able to use the bridge.
He has since gone on to mount an impressive list of works, including bringing the sound of the sea from the Normandy beaches to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the inner vibrations of London's Millennium Bridge to London's Tate Modern.
Hyder Consulting, which has worked on Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tower Bridge in London, will design the station.
Calvi, known as God's Banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
He was waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Bridge, London, when a stranger jabbed him in the leg with an umbrella.
Mr Walker, who has three children, grew up on the nearby Dickens Estate and said being allowed by the Corporation of London to raise the bridge was an honour.
At present, lorries use the city as a short cut from junction 18 of the M4 - along London Road and Cleveland Bridge - en route to the south coast.
Far away from the jeering supporters at London's Stamford Bridge, Benitez completed his brief but productive reign with a 5-3 loss to Manchester City in a season-ending exhibition game Saturday night.
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