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Lambeth council funds Santander Cycles expansion to Brixton

July 7, 2017 - Martin Hoscik

The council will use £750,000 of the Local Implementation Plan grant it receives from Transport for London to pay for seven new docking stations, providing space for up to 200 bikes, to be installed.

Filed Under: News

Sixty years on from the Clean Air Act London should lead the world in a smart and fair approach to cleaning up our air

July 7, 2017 - Matthew Pencharz

Politics is a fickle thing… a year after entering City Hall, it’s astonishing how Sadiq Khan has successfully come to completely own London’s air quality challenge and moreover the measures the previous administration put in place to address it.

Filed Under: Comment, News

FSB blasts “shambolic delay” in providing business rate relief to London’s small firms

July 7, 2017 - Martin Hoscik

The Federation of Small Businesses claims only a third of boroughs have published details of their proposed local relief schemes and suggests that none have yet applied reductions to business rates bills

Filed Under: News

London’s contactless fares system clocks up one billion journeys

July 6, 2017 - Martin Hoscik

Contactless fares were first introduced on the capital’s bus fleet in 2012 and were expanded to DLR, Overground, Tube and national rail services in 2014, since when millions of passengers have ditched their Oyster cards and paper tickets and embraced the technology.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Contactless Fares

Fire brigade ‘could have to pay £31k per month to attend 999 calls in central London’

July 6, 2017 - Martin Hoscik

London’s cash-strapped fire brigade faces a monthly bill of £31,000 for driving into Sadiq Khan’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) according a new report drawn up for members of the capital’s fire authority.

Filed Under: News

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