Do you regularly cycle around London? If you do then part of your reason for choosing a two-wheeled method of transportation may very well have something to do with the environment. Good for you…but don’t you wish that sometimes your trusty pedal-powered steed had a …
Within the next few weeks Parliament is to become a strictly no smoking zone. By Easter time MPs, staff and visitors will all be barred from lighting up in Westminster Palace and even a sneaky bifter in the the Strangers’ Bar will be out of …
It’s time for the ugly issue of pedestrianisation to rear its ugly head once more. Remember the furore surrounding the Public Spaces Report and the report in the Independent that Ken was set on pedestrianising “significant portions of the city centre in a ten year …
Pedestrians and cars “mingling”? Sounds like a law-suit waiting to happen doesn’t it? But apparently Kensington & Chelsea Council think it’s great idea. As the Times reports today, Exhibtion Road is to be turned into a “shared space”, whereby traditional signals and barriers used to …
Londonist was interested to read Simon Hoggart’s ‘diary’ piece in this Saturday’s Guardian which gave an interesting insight into the world of London cyclists. Reacting to Turner Prize winner, Jeremy Deller’s dedication ‘to everyone who cycles in London” last week, Hoggart felt the need to …
Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …
Ken Livingstone’s campaign to have just about everything happen in London continued this week when he submitted a revised bid for London to host the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Ken was at the dinner to celebrate the Entente Cordiale bike race between …
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