All aboard another year of fighting over low-traffic neighbourhoods and e-bikes Claire Harding Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and e-scooters will impact how we get around in London - and with transport strikes still making the headlines, it's going to be a rather interesting year, writes Claire Harding
If we don’t fix London’s housing, families will get stuck in temporary accommodation Claire Harding This coming winter will be hard for millions of Londoners, with energy costs and inflation hitting almost everyone. But it will be harder still for the thousands of families stuck in temporary accommodation who don’t have a permanent home. The numbers affected are staggering – 59 per cent of all English households in temporary accommodation [...]
No point in having a state of the art transport system if our people can’t afford it Claire Harding This is a good month for trains in London. The Elizabeth Line finally opened on Tuesday, mostly to acclaim for its engineering and speed. The Northern Line works through Bank, which made north-south travel painfully difficult, ended punctually a week earlier. It’s briefly easy to forget the storm clouds gathering over public transport in London [...]
Londoners pay the price as Khan and No10 stay on the carousel of fights over TfL funding March 7, 2022 A FEW weeks ago, after months of wrangling, Transport for London and the Department for Transport finally agreed a slightly longer term short-term funding deal for the network. After a series of deals lasting a week or two at a time, this one runs until June. We don’t know what’s going to happen in June [...]
To revive London, women need to be able to stop looking over their shoulder December 6, 2021 Winter is here. The heating is on, the gloves and hats are out, and the decorations are up in the shops. Winter in London can be such a joy, but for many women it also means months of feeling frightened when out and about after dark – of planning different routes to avoid the park, [...]
Before we give London’s transport to the rest of the UK, we should fix it here first October 28, 2021 The only standout mention of the capital in yesterday’s budget was a promise to bring “London-style transport settlements” to regions across the country. On the face of it, this is an entirely sensible aspiration. Many other cities would love to have London’s mix of cheap, frequent buses with flat fares, a fast reliable and wide-ranging [...]
