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Post by southlondonbus on May 6, 2024 14:03:34 GMT
I agree. The Lioness line could just have easily been the Stadium line to reflect that Wembley has been the home of all football for generations not just that the women's team reached a cup final, the Windrush scandal was an outrage no doubt but the name doesn't need to be enshrined everywhere now. The square in Brixton is a fitting monument and is signifiant as Brixton has long been the home of the UKs black culture. That could have reverted to the East London line name which was what that was going to be when proposed in the 90s; an extension of the East London to Dalston and West Croydon. "Stadium Line" - that's a great name, really like it. You talk about the Windrush scandal in the past tense - it's still very much live with many claimants still awaiting compensation, some of whom have sadly passed away in the interim I meant was as in it hadn't been exposed till more recently. |
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Post by matthieu1221 on May 6, 2024 14:23:50 GMT
The odds look quite good on there being a future Labour prime minister! NEVER, the rest of the country are not that stupid as in London; they would not put Khan as PM ?
I know some people have an obsession with Khan, but he's not running for PM?
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Post by yunus on May 7, 2024 19:43:51 GMT
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 7, 2024 20:09:54 GMT
I think the 2030 aim is still dependent on Central government going Labour. I can't see the Tories in their state ever agreeing to it, but it could be a quick score with Labour to keep Londoners happy while they focus on the North. |
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Post by yunus on May 7, 2024 20:23:19 GMT
I think the 2030 aim is still dependent on Central government going Labour. I can't see the Tories in their state ever agreeing to it, but it could be a quick score with Labour to keep Londoners happy while they focus on the North. (Fingers crossed) the Tories are finished! I could place a safe bet that the next govt will be Labour but time will tell. |
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Post by mondraker275 on May 8, 2024 7:52:57 GMT
I think the 2030 aim is still dependent on Central government going Labour. I can't see the Tories in their state ever agreeing to it, but it could be a quick score with Labour to keep Londoners happy while they focus on the North. It is also a win for whatever government to investment in something like this and not only a win for Londoners or Mayor. This will help with jobs all over the country, pave the way for electrics to be in other parts of country (either used EVs or new), have low emission hybrids cascaded too. This will help with a government's environment targets. The sensible contrary argument is ofcourse, money could be spent elsewhere and whether it is worth the spend to reach an arbitrary target earlier if it can be done through other means over a longer time period. But it seems the reasons not to spend so far has been because of the overspend in London and/or for political reasons which both seem quite a nonsense to me. |
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Post by twobellstogo on May 8, 2024 10:50:49 GMT
I think the 2030 aim is still dependent on Central government going Labour. I can't see the Tories in their state ever agreeing to it, but it could be a quick score with Labour to keep Londoners happy while they focus on the North. (Fingers crossed) the Tories are finished! I could place a safe bet that the next govt will be Labour but time will tell. I hope you are right. I know we have a lot of natural Conservatives here, and I’m sorry to all of you, but I’m afraid I cannot vote Conservative in the general election - this iteration of the party is washed up and finished. They need to get more moderate and ditch some of the frankly quite awful characters populating Parliament at the moment. Then, perhaps this floating voter will consider them again. At the moment, it’s a hard no. |
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Post by vjaska on May 8, 2024 11:23:44 GMT
(Fingers crossed) the Tories are finished! I could place a safe bet that the next govt will be Labour but time will tell. I hope you are right. I know we have a lot of natural Conservatives here, and I’m sorry to all of you, but I’m afraid I cannot vote Conservative in the general election - this iteration of the party is washed up and finished. They need to get more moderate and ditch some of the frankly quite awful characters populating Parliament at the moment. Then, perhaps this floating voter will consider them again. At the moment, it’s a hard no. Even the two early candidates to take over from Sunak wouldn’t fill me with any confidence that the Tories are actually going to change. Badenoch is awful, have seen enough of her to put her in the Patel & Braverman category of incredibly stupid and dangerous politicians whilst with Mordant, let’s see if she would pivot back to the centre or continue listening to the idiots on the right of the party |
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Post by buspete on May 9, 2024 0:40:12 GMT
It was utter preposterous that Labour supporting inner London should pay the ULEZ, whilst the outer London Conservatives shouldn’t, utter pie in the sky.
Now under our mayor who is serving an unprecedented 3rd term, we can look forward to some great public transport initiatives such as Superloop 2, London Metro rail routes, coming under TFL and the new Blackwall tunnel.
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Post by greenboy on May 9, 2024 6:27:03 GMT
It was utter preposterous that Labour supporting inner London should pay the ULEZ, whilst the outer London Conservatives shouldn’t, utter pie in the sky. Now under our mayor who is serving an unprecedented 3rd term, we can look forward to some great public transport initiatives such as Superloop 2, London Metro rail routes, coming under TFL and the new Blackwall tunnel. It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. |
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Post by southlondon413 on May 9, 2024 7:26:02 GMT
It was utter preposterous that Labour supporting inner London should pay the ULEZ, whilst the outer London Conservatives shouldn’t, utter pie in the sky. Now under our mayor who is serving an unprecedented 3rd term, we can look forward to some great public transport initiatives such as Superloop 2, London Metro rail routes, coming under TFL and the new Blackwall tunnel. It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. Especially when there are seemingly zero efforts to clean up the heavily polluted underground network. More likely to get lung cancer from regular tube usage than road pollution in the outer boroughs. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 9, 2024 7:32:19 GMT
It was utter preposterous that Labour supporting inner London should pay the ULEZ, whilst the outer London Conservatives shouldn’t, utter pie in the sky. Now under our mayor who is serving an unprecedented 3rd term, we can look forward to some great public transport initiatives such as Superloop 2, London Metro rail routes, coming under TFL and the new Blackwall tunnel. It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. Isn't that what Londoners wanted? |
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Post by buspete on May 9, 2024 14:36:48 GMT
It was utter preposterous that Labour supporting inner London should pay the ULEZ, whilst the outer London Conservatives shouldn’t, utter pie in the sky. Now under our mayor who is serving an unprecedented 3rd term, we can look forward to some great public transport initiatives such as Superloop 2, London Metro rail routes, coming under TFL and the new Blackwall tunnel. It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. Areas with no air pollution is subjective. Old vehicles give off more pollution that newer vehicles that is a matter of fact. |
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Post by southlondon413 on May 9, 2024 14:59:09 GMT
It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. Areas with no air pollution is subjective. Old vehicles give off more pollution that newer vehicles that is a matter of fact. But the oldest vehicles built before 1973 and those built before 1983 with a DVLA historic vehicle class are exempt so that excludes the most polluting cars. Catalytic converters have been mandatory in the EU and UK since 1993 which drastically reduces emissions so that leaves a small window of cars which have no emission reducing tech or exemptions. So explain the point when cars and vans are at the lowest level of emissions in history. EV car batteries have higher pollution attached to them when you factor in the additional pollution required for manufacturing the batteries. |
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Post by SILENCED on May 9, 2024 15:14:45 GMT
It's utterly preposterous that there should be a ULEZ charge in areas that have no air pollution. What you can look forward to is more of the same. Areas with no air pollution is subjective. Old vehicles give off more pollution that newer vehicles that is a matter of fact. If air quality is classed as good, then I do not consider it polluted. |
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