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London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From Sunday, travellers will be able to use Oyster PAYG on Southern services from Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park to London Victoria. Confirmation of this can be found on the Southern website here . Sadiq Khan also makes mention of it in his latest email to Tooting constituents, which makes interesting reading. To steal a phrase from Railway Eye , "Sadiq says":...
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SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Postal workers have been bearing the brunt of the public’;s anger since beginning to take strike action. They are being blamed for the late delivery of mail and being portrayed in the press as the ones in the wrong. But, what you have to remember here is that postal workers are not greedy, well paid [...]
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
There's a scene in the book and film "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham where the defendant in a civil trial has to admit that they wrote to the victim denying their claim for a health insurance payout in these terms: "On seven prior occasions we have denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth time. You must be stupid, stupid, stupid." I have to say that this is how...
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JamesCousins.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I attended the Regeneration and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee as Executive Member last night. The meeting was largely focused on community safety matters, and was one of the longer ones for a while, perhaps because there were some interesting items on the agenda. You can see the full agenda on the [...] Theoretically related posts: Recession kills off regeneration plans for Roehampton...
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PR Geek (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today, Boris Johnson launched Oxford Street’s new ‘scramble crossing’ by banging a giant gong. The diagonal pedestrian crossing has been heralded by many of the news outlets as a copy of the famous walkway in Shibuya, Tokyo. The Metro even went as far as naming it, slightly ambiguously, as a ‘ first ’. Luckily in almost all the comments under the stories, the general public...
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Real cycling (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Copenhagen is a model cycling capital, as readers of the excellent Copenhagenize blog will be aware. I was there last month, and this week I'll be making a few comparisons between there and London. The first thing that strikes you as you stroll out from Copenhagen railway station into the city centre is the sheer amount of cyclists. Billions and billions of them. (In London, by contrast, the first...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Up until a few days ago, Conservatives in Roehampton were delivering a newsletter containing the story above promoting their dreadful demolition plans for Danebury Avenue. Earlier this week the plans were dropped. Talk about the right hand not knowing what the far right hand is doing! Particularly notable is the quote from one of the Tory candidates for Roehampton: "We need to make sure that...
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JamesCousins.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The recession has finally put paid to hopes for a major regeneration project in Roehampton. The scheme had been in development for a number of years and went through seemingly endless consultations with local residents, mixed feelings from the Labour Party (who couldn’t work out if they want to improve people’s quality of life or not) [...] Theoretically related posts: Beating the recession...
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Money Spinning Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
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Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
1725 [1720] [1640] Hrs GMT London Wednesday 28 October 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! We said this morning: “Now even Boris J is rushing around looking for any face-saving ploy to haul in as part of the new bid to confess all.” This is confirmed in a report published in the past 90 minutes on the Internet by the pro-Crossrail web site http://www.regen.net....
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Osiers Gate is the third stage of the Riverside Quarter development, currently being considered by Wandsworth Council planners. A few days ago I reluctantly submitted an objection to this application. I say reluctantly because I recognise that the Enterprise Way part of the development on which Osiers Gate will be built needs to be regenerated and because several aspects of the plan are positive....
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I had another lovely autumnal shoot on Saturday morning with these gorgeous brothers above and their mum and dad. I was greeted at the door by their eldest, who said to me with a big smile on his face 'I hear you take photos. I bet I have a better camera than you and I can take better photos too.' So it seemed I had competition! I think I earned his respect though when I showed him that I in fact had...
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London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Today has seen the publishing of a new Planning Framework for Battersea and Nine Elms , and revised Crossrail planning guidelines for the area. The Quickest of Summaries - The Planning Framework effectively stipulates that any major development at the site will require the construction of the Northern Line extension to Battersea via a station at Nine Elms. - Changes to the Crossrail guidelines have...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Kerry-Boxer [climate hoax] bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released | Grist ...the cap-and-trade policies outlined in these bills would transform the way the United States produces and uses energy ; (2) the average loss in consumption per household will be relatively low, on the order of hundreds of dollars per year in the main policy case Senate Democrats set climate [swindle] industry...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
One of the big blights on Putney - alongside the never-ending potholes - is the amount of flytipping the Conservatives allow to take place here. This was one of the very first issues I raised after being selected: when I was a councillor it was a massive issue in the area I represented for eight years; and I was also responsible as the Labour opposition speaker on environmental issues for trying to...
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