Survey Wars
To tram or not to tram that is the question, but it seems that there’s a bit of confusion between the great people of London as to what the answer is. Is it nobler in the mind to suffer congestion, disruption to shops and displacement …
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Capita Coining It In
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London: Still Alone In Fighting Congestion
So Edinburgh has decided to reject plans for its own congestion charge. We at Londonist would like to offer sanctuary right here to the third of Edinburgh residents (Edinburghists? Edinburgers?) who voted for the congestion charge. We would also like to send those Londoners who …
King’s Cross Gentrification Continues Against All Odds
Kings Cross station is to get a ‘hot cash injection’ of £400m in order to “help cut congestion” and “boost the Olympic bid”. Of course, work on a overhaul of the Northern Ticket Hall started back in 2004, but was halted due to rising costs …
What They’re Saying About Ken
You know what we’re talking about here, so let’s get right down to it: as thorough a roundup as we can of what Ken said to Finegold and what the papers are making of it all. The actual conversation: Oliver Finegold: Mr Livingstone, Evening Standard. …
IKEA Stabbing
What should have be a great event, full of promise for the future, hinting at a better life for us all, was
Charge And Be Damned
In what seems to be a more and more elaborate plan to extract the most money possible from London’s motorists, the Commissioner of Transport for London, Bob Kiley wants to put in place a tag and beacon system to allow greater flexibility in charging on …
Zero Tolerance London
Ken Livingstone’s crusade to turn London into a kind of New York looky-likey continued today with a speech in which he called for a zero tolerance approach to crimes such as spitting and littering. Ok, nobody likes messy pavements or hawking in public, but is …
