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Buses set to by-pass Colonnades and Purley Way superstore
Transport for London has this week begun a consultation on streamlining two Croydon bus routes, the 289 and 455, in and around the Purley Way. TfL wants to eliminate the loop into the Colonnades complex currently on the 289 route, … Continue reading
Posted in Purley, Purley Way, TfL, Transport, Waddon, West Croydon
Tagged Purley, Purley Way, South Croydon, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon
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20mph zones can help to make our streets safer for all
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our borough has some of the most dangerous roads in London, so ANDREW PELLING, pictured, finds it saddening that the local Tories are campaigning against safer speed limits Road safety is a vital concern for Greater London, Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Commuting, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Conservative, Coulsdon, Labour, Purley, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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Coulsdon’s Carservatives declare: ‘Carry on Speeding’
The Tories in Coulsdon have formed an unholy alliance with a car campaigner whose extreme conduct even saw him kicked out of UKIP. Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports The leadership of the Croydon Conservatives has been issuing post-truth emails … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Environment, Mario Creatura, Policing, Purley, Sara Bashford, Transport
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Mario Creatura, Peter Morgan, Purley, Sara Bashford, STUART KING, Tory, UKIP
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Rail strikes are the symptom, not the cause, of the problem
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Like thousands of other local commuters, CATHERINE SHELLEY has been affected by the long-running rail dispute. She says that the real problem lies with Southern Rail’s mismanagement, aided by the Tory Government On a weekday evening at Victoria … Continue reading
Victorian pub the Waddon Hotel put at risk by planning vote
Officials in Fisher’s Folly, the council’s headquarters offices, are now so short-staffed that they are using Inside Croydon to check their official documents for them. So it was yesterday, after this website highlighted that an application had been removed from … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Joy Prince, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, Purley Way, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Waddon
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Nasty Party goes to war over church’s Purley tower block
A nasty war of words has broken out in Purley over the local baptist church’s development of a 17-storey tower overlooking the ugly gyratory road system. So unpleasant is the behaviour that Purley has revealed itself as no longer the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Donald Speakman, Environment, Luke Clancy, Parking, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley, Purley BID, Richard Chatterjee, Sue Winborn, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Chris Wright, Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Purley, Purley Baptist Church, Tory
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East Croydon’s Bridge to Nowhere won’t be finished until 2024
WALTER CRONXITE reports on another foregone conclusion at the council’s planning committee, a decision which will blight development in the town centre until 2024, at least Croydon’s pusillanimous planning committee, under the chairmanship of Paul “Five Hats” Scott, last night … Continue reading
Lycra-obsessed Tories forget their support for parks and ride
Croydon is the most unsafe borough in south London for cycling, according to a senior councillor. Not that anyone was at the Town Hall meeting to register the point, as STEVEN DOWNES reports If a tree falls in a forest … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Connected Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Cycling, Environment, Fairfield, Heathfield, Helen Pollard, Lloyd Park, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart King, Tim Pollard, Transport, Wandle Park
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Council, Helen Pollard, Labour, Sean Fitzsimons, STUART KING, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory
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Council planners join with developer to block objections
WALTER CRONXITE reports on another instance where the council’s planning department is riding roughshod over local residents and elected councillors – this time potentially jeopardising a £85million road scheme The unrestrained rush to develop any scrap of land into housing … Continue reading
2001 – A Space Oddity has arrived on Platforms 5 and 6
Whimsy appears to be taking over at East Croydon Station. It already has its Bridge to Nowhere, a £22 million edifice which, almost four years after “completion”, remains unfinished with no access on the Addiscombe side of the station. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Commuting, East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Southern Rail
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Coulsdon commuters deserve much more than compensation
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Offering refunds to Southern Rail passengers does nothing to improve the dreadful service endured by the forgotten commuters of Coulsdon South, says CHARLES KING Rather than resolving the problems faced daily by Croydon commuters travelling to and from … Continue reading
Station exhibition recalls an age when trains ran on time
With all the comedy mis-timing of Tommy Cooper, Network Rail chose this week to unveil a history exhibition at London Bridge to celebrate the station’s 180th anniversary. Yes, that Network Rail that the Tory Government has decided that it wants … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, History, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, London, London Bridge station, Thameslink
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Council drops public poll to speed up introduction of 20mph
Croydon Council officials have admitted that they need to speed up their own work if they are to implement 20mph speed limits on all the borough’s residential streets. The council wants to skip the opinion surveys which it used as … Continue reading
Philp backs ‘gesture’ rail refund as train fares are hiked again
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on a government announcement intended to divert from the news that rail commuters are about to get shafted again Rather than actually sorting out the on-going crisis over the terrible service provided by the operator that … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Commuting, Croydon South, East Croydon, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Council, East Croydon, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Southern Rail, Tory
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Speed restrictions at four sites as trams start running again
Croydon’s trams are running services on all routes again, 10 days after the tragic derailment in which seven people died and 50 people were injured. But the service has only resumed after additional speed restrictions have been put in place … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Commuting, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Crydon Tramlink, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Trams, Transport for London
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Tram was speeding at 43mph before it crashed – official report
The preliminary report from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch into the circumstances which led to the tragic derailment at Sandilands a week ago, when seven people died, states that the tram was travelling at 43.5mph – more than three times … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Tramlink, Sandilands, Sandilands derailment, Trams
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Tram tracks remain closed until safety report is published today
Transport for London has delayed the re-opening of the tram line between New Addington and East Croydon, pending the publication of the preliminary report from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. The line has been closed for a week, since the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, New Addington, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Tramlink, New Addington, Sandilands derailment, Trams
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Croydon waits on tram crash investigators’ preliminary report
Seven names were added to Croydon’s service of remembrance at Croydon Minster yesterday morning. Dane Chinnery Donald Collett Robert Huxley Philip Logan Dorota Rynkiewicz Phil Seary Mark Smith
