Everyone’s favourite stereotypical Tory, Boris Johnson, has fallen off his bike. The Henley-on-Thames MP was sent flying whilst trying to avoid a gaggle of tourists at a crossing near the Palace of Westminster. He was treated for a badly sprained wrist at St. Thomas’ Hospital, …
Londonist’s favourite cycle shop (who also write our favourite cycling blog), Velorution are currently hosting an exhibition of photography. Fietsen by Laura Domela consits of a series of images taken in Amsterdam over four days in September of 2005. Domela would spend about an hour …
Ken has given a big thumbs up to Kingston for its Local Implementation Plan, pleased that it contains proposals for how the borough intends to implement the Mayor’s Transport Strategy between now and 2011. The LIP will contain, among other things, efforts on: Improved road …
At the end of last month we posted about a parent’s groups who were protesting over cyclists’ behaviour at red lights in Stockwell. It’s always a controversial topic this one, and the comments we received on the post confirmed that. Andrea from the fantastic Velorution …
We featured some green minicabs today. All very good, but they still guzzle hydrocarbons. So, while less damaging than your typical taxi, they’re not exactly ‘friendly’ to the environment – just less hostile. To be truly non-polluting (odd drip of oil aside), you need to …
We said in this morning’s Extra, Extra section that London was a “very strong candidate” to be the site of the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Well, we didn’t lie, because in the past few hours Ken has announced that organisers the Amaury …
Security services have admitted that they had the ‘leader’ of the London suicide bombers on surveillance tapes a year before the attacks. 500 MoD staff will converge on Westminster tomorrow in protest at job cuts. Weirdly the protestors will be “joined on the day by …
If you read our little report on the growing tensions between the capital’s Critical Mass movement and The Met last week and were wondering what the upshot was, then read on… If you remember the Met had warned Critical Mass that unless they received prior …
When Londonist heard that Chris Roberts, the man behind the excellent Heavy Words Lightly Thrown (the hidden meanings behind nursery rhymes), had written a book on London’s Bridges we knew we had to get in touch and force him to complete the Londonist questionnaire. So …
- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …
It’s been quite a summer for London, giving us plentiful opportunities to reflect on the city and how it feels to be part of it. Pretty good is the general conclusion, despite and because of what has happened in the last few jam-packed months, and …
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