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How to set-up a busy street market in less than 12 months
Compare and contrast. Yesterday, for the second week, a busy and buzzing street market was staged in Crystal Palace, at Haynes Lane, off Westow Street. Around a dozen independent traders, selling locally sourced products, had stalls at the market. More … Continue reading
Wellesley Road scheme offers traffic chaos for years to come
According to a survey published recently, Wellesley Road in central Croydon is the eighth most congested road in the capital. Not satisfied with that, Croydon Council’s cabinet of senior councillors, together with Transport for London, seem intent on getting Wellesley … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Addiscombe, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Health, Lansdowne Road RA, Menta Tower, Parking, Planning, Property, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Vision 2020, East Croydon station, Lansdowne Road, London, Wellesley Road, Whitgift Centre
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Dear Boris: an open letter on transport to the Mayor of London
Boris Johnson Mayor of London City Hall 14th February 2013 Dear Mr Johnson, I’m a non-driver – I have been all my life – so I have a strong vested interest in public transport. I use trains, trams or buses … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Greens, Croydon Ramblers, Cycling, David Callam, East Croydon, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Tramlink, Transport, Walks, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe, Bus, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Netherlands, Public transport, River Thames
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Railway’s timetabled delays to stretch into fifth day
Rail services out of East Croydon, operated by Southern Railways, are to operate on a revised timetable for a fifth day because of the winter weather. The rail franchise announced it would run amended timetables last Thursday, before a flake … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon, East Croydon station, Gatwick Express, London, London Bridge, London Bridge station, Victoria
Is Boris the man to make prefabs sprout in London?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM muses over the mess our council has made of one of its most important community responsibilities Housing in Croydon is in crisis. A combination of lazy politicians and greedy developers has brought us to a parlous … Continue reading
Crystal Palace tram decision is “disgraceful and inexplicable”
One of the country’s leading transport experts has described Mayor Boris Johnson’s decision not to fulfil his promise to deliver a tram extension to Crystal Palace as “disgraceful and inexplicable”. Christian Wolmar, the author of several books on transport policy … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Croydon North, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Britain, Christian Wolmar, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Labour, London, Mayor
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Where there’s a wheel, there ought to be a way for cyclists
Croydon is scarred by urban motorways that divide the borough, cutting off people from their homes and work. KRISTIAN GREGORY, of the Croydon Cycling Campaign, says it is time to make people more of a priority than cars The picture … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Commuting, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Croydon Ramblers, Cycling, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Parking, Planning, Schools, Tramlink, Transport, Walks
Tagged Britain, Croydon, Cycling, London, Netherlands, Royal College Street, Tram, Transport
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Time to fight back against council’s arrogance and neglect
TONY NEWMAN, the leader of Croydon’s Labour group on the council, says local people demand change at the Town Hall Croydon has been shaken to its core by recent events, from the riots of August 2011, the unprecedented economic downturn … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Tramlink
Tagged Allders, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon North, Elections, Labour, London, Steve Reed
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Boris takes us for a ride but not by tram to Crystal Palace
Transport for London is about to publish a seven-year investment plan that includes not a penny for the tram extensions promised in the London election campaign earlier this year by Mayor Boris Johnson and Steve O’Connell, the Assembly Member for … Continue reading
Mind the gap: Addiscombe gets its missing “link”
Nil carborundum illegitimi* In dealing with the often obdurate and regularly crass management of our local council, sometimes people have to take satisfaction over the little victories, the minor successes. These are usually achieved against the corporate brick wall of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe, Boris Johnson, Business, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Jon Rouse, Mayor of London, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Sean Fitzsimons, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, East Croydon station, Jobcentre Plus, London, London Borough of Croydon, Network Rail, Taberner House
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Flawed council plan puts flats too close to Fairfield Halls
The public consultation for the latest Croydon Council pipe dream, the “Fair Field Masterplan”, closes today. Extraordinarily, even by Croydon’s standards for bungling, this latest masterplan has managed to antagonise the centrepiece upon which many of the proposals depend: the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon College, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Housing, Jon Rouse, Menta Tower, Planning, Property, Tramlink, Transport, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, London, Park Lane, Taberner House
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These are the questions Croydon needs answered by Westfield
So Westfield is claiming 91 per cent of the people of Croydon favour its scheme for the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre. Just as we predicted. After all, the only thing more predictable than the results of North Korean elections … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, Tramlink, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, John Lewis, London, London Borough of Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Travelling to London: check out this Olympic transport advice
London’s “Zil Lanes”, the network of restricted roads mainly in the centre of the city, go live this morning, barely 24 hours after the shut down of one Tube line and an overground railway line prompted transport chaos for 60,000 … Continue reading
Tram slams into the buffers at New Addington terminus
A tram has run into the buffers at the New Addington tram terminal this morning. Police were in attendance, but no one appeared to have been seriously injured. The damage to the tram, part of the original Bombardier stock, appeared … Continue reading
Posted in New Addington, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Tram, Tramlink
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