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Sold short at Kensal Green 24 Jan 2011 | 11:00 pm
Kensal Green Tube Station (Photo Credit: amandabhslater – licensed under Creative Commons) Ticket office closures have rightly focussed attention on staffing levels at Tube stations. There is a curre...
Watch out Ken, Boris is on the hunt in the suburbs again. 22 Jan 2011 | 03:40 am
Boris Johnson Election Leaflet (Photo Credit: jaimelondonboy – licensed under Creative Commons) Did you hear that? You’d need finely attuned hearing but I think that’s unmistakable sound of a dog whi...
Amazon Kindle 3: A Review 1 Oct 2010 | 07:56 pm
The new Kindle from Amazon is a very impressive device, well conceived and highly featured for the price. In the short time I’ve had it I’ve come to really like it. Glad I didn’t buy an iPad. I had b...
The TfL Board should tell the Mayor where to stick his shovel 20 Sep 2010 | 08:25 pm
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging” The TfL Board on 22nd September is going to be asked to approve an extension of the Cycle Hire Scheme. By how much we will probably not know as TfL are ...
Confirmed: TfL’s own figures show Cycle Hire Scheme is a poor investment 13 Sep 2010 | 08:30 pm
The Cycle Hire Scheme is still struggling. Casual use could be months away and TfL with their contractors, Serco, have been unable to solve operational issues that should have been fixed within a few ...
Email fail! 11 Sep 2010 | 01:28 am
Sorry if you were one of the people that sent me an email today off the blog. They appear to have disappeared into thin air. Problem fixed now.
Cycle Hire Scheme Business Case – First Thoughts 10 Sep 2010 | 08:10 am
Its here! After weeks and weeks of prodding, the business case for the Cycle Hire Scheme landed in my inbox from TfL this morning. Its a weighty document and will take some time to analyse and cross c...
Cycle hire scheme caught between a rock and a hard place 3 Sep 2010 | 10:14 am
Don’t look here for a bike after 5.30PM, docking station on Scala Street, W1 The ability of casual users to make use of the London Cycle Hire scheme has been delayed again. TfL are now saying it will...
Not perfect and more work to do, but Ken’s the better choice 1 Sep 2010 | 10:30 pm
The choice of candidates wasn’t ideal and the campaign not entirely riveting, but the different choices on offer to Labour members for their candidate for Mayor are now clear. Oona King has made great...
Ignore the headlines, Brent is going in right direction on bin collections 31 Aug 2010 | 02:47 am
Don’t ever say this blog doesn’t tackle the big issues. It’s not sexy and most of us don’t really want to think about it, but refuse collection and recycling is probably the service people use most fr...
