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Southern never consulted TfL about late night timetable cuts
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, reports on how the train operators are railroading through their plans for reduced overnight services to south London and the coast Transport for London was not consulted over the timetable changes to be introduced at … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Stuart King, TfL, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Southern Railway, STUART KING
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Protestors use Stormzy’s music to drown out fascist chants
There have been calls for far-right groups who try to hold rallies around Lunar House, the Home Office’s passport and visa office in central Croydon, to be forced to pay for the policing of their events and other related costs. … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Policing, Tramlink
Tagged East Croydon station, Lunar House, Metropolitan Police
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Safety handles on speeding trams have failed, BBC reports
An investigation by the BBC suggests that the driver’s safety control on the south London tram network often fails to operate, providing a possible explanation for last November’s crash at Sandilands in which seven passengers died. The safety control, which … Continue reading
Not much to show for £5.4m spent on East Croydon’s bus stops
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports from East Croydon bus station after its re-opening yesterday, more than a month later than scheduled So is that it? Is that what the council and Transport for London took almost six months and, they … Continue reading
Council has chance to get Menta to finish Bridge to Nowhere
Six years after being granted permission for a controversial 54-storey block – potentially the tallest residential block in Britain – and developers Menta Redrow will be back at Croydon’s planning committee tonight asking for permission to chop their tower in … Continue reading
Croydon and ‘delivery’, Part 94: East Croydon bus station
“Thank you,” states the signage seen by tens of thousands of Croydon commuters every day, “for your patience during these essential construction works.” Note that: the works are essential. Though perhaps not essential enough to get them finished in a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Cycling, East Croydon, Environment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, TfL, Transport for London
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Beckenham Beer and Cider Festival, Elmers End, Jul 20-22
Posted in Activities, Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Pubs, Tramlink
Tagged Beckenham Beer Festival, Bromley
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Road closures at Easter will offer taste of chaos to come
Croydon is about to get a taste of the sort of traffic chaos and disruption which may await once the Hammersfield development gets underway – if it ever does – when the town centre is closed down for 10 days … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon Tramlink, London, TfL, Trams, Transport for London, Wellesley Road
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Something stinks about council’s latest air quality plans
JEREMY CLACKSON, our motoring correspondent, reports on the inherent contradiction of the borough’s drive for growth (in cars, naturally) Croydon Council has just announced a public consultation (another one), this time over the borough’s rapidly worsening air quality. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shifa Mustafa, Stuart King, Transport, Waste incinerator
Tagged Air pollution, Croydon Council, Harris Purley Way Primary, Krishna Avanti Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Shifa Mustafa, STUART KING
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Croydon wins a ‘connected’ award, for £24m unfinished bridge
East Croydon Station’s “Bridge to Nowhere”, the £24million pedestrian bridge which has never been completed to provide the intended access to Cherry Orchard Road and Addiscombe, has just been cited as a reason for Croydon winning an award for urban … Continue reading
More questions than answers as Mayor ducks burning issue
JONNY BROGDALE reports on an unsatisfactory exercise organised by City Hall that was more about justification than any real accountability The People’s Question Time session with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, staged in Carshalton on Thursday night, offered a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jessica Crowe, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Nick Mattey, Policing, Ruth Dombey, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Steve O'Connell, Sutton Council, TfL, Tim Crowley, Tramlink, Transport, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor of London, Nick Mattey, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor
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Power Networks are in a hole after ordering wrong-sized cable
Inside Croydon can expose yet another multi-million-pound “cover-up”, this time by a utility company which has been digging holes in the roads between Sutton and Purley to lay electricity cable between two sub-stations, only then to fill in the holes. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon, Environment, Purley, Purley Way, Sutton Council, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon, Purley, Sutton, UK Power Networks
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Council calls in TfL for full traffic study on Addiscombe roads
A new consultation into the network of residential streets that run between Addiscombe and Cherry Orchard roads could be extended to include modelling of the traffic in the whole area, involving Transport for London, and even look again at the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, East Croydon, HOME, Mark Watson, TACRA, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson
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More Wellesley Road works coming down the tram tracks
Anyone enduring the traffic jams along Wellesley Road since the weekend, you’ll be delighted to know there could be more on the way. Croydon Council quietly dropped its “Connected Croydon” tag for its street improvement works, because eventually even the … Continue reading
Superdrug opens head office in Croydon – because they like it
Superdrug has this week moved into a new head office close to East Croydon Station, without a penny of assistance from the local council, and with a refreshingly frank attitude to reasons behind chosing its location: “Our old offices at … Continue reading
Philp won by a landslide – as Most Useless MP in Rail Crisis
The Association of British Commuters has rejected claims (mainly from those members of the Croydon Conservatives who rarely have to use trains) that last week’s award to Croydon South’s Chris Philp for being “the Most Useless MP in the Southern … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Commuting, Croydon South, East Croydon, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, East Croydon station, South Croydon, Southern Rail, Tory
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Philp is recognised as ‘most useless MP’ in Southern crisis
JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, went full black-tie last night to attend a less-than-lavish gala awards Three cheers for Chris Philp. There’s recognition, at last, for the Conservative MP for Croydon South, for all his posturing and hot air over … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Commuting, Croydon South, East Croydon, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Southern Rail, Tory
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Council’s U-turn creates a road block to residents’ complaints
A council report to this Wednesday’s traffic management committee at the Town Hall recommends a U-turn on the controversial one-way system on residential streets between Addiscombe Road and Cherry Orchard Road which has caused distress and dismay for hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Community associations, Croydon Council, Lebanon Road Residents' Association, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Council, Labour, Lebanon Road, Mark Watson, Shifa Mustafa, TACRA, Tunstall and Addiscombe Court Residents' Association
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Commuters launch Judicial Review to hold Grayling to account
Local Tories, who for the past couple of months have been disingenuously pumping out the party line that it is the unions who are responsible for the appalling mismanagement of Southern Rail services, will be dismayed to learn that a … Continue reading
Local Plan’s divide and rule is delivering over-development
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Labour MP for Croydon North and the leader of the Conservative opposition on the council have both complained about over-development in the borough. As residents in Upper Norwood begin a campaign against the council’s “infill” building on … Continue reading
20mph limit is a safety measure which deserves your support
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The latest consultation about 20mph zones should seek comments from those in favour, as well as objectors, says CATHERINE SHELLEY, pictured There is a strange dynamic whenever notices are published for planning and other publicly regulated work, which … Continue reading
