Richmond Transits

A blog about Richmond upon Thames local issues by a local resident.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Should the UK follow Zimbabwe?

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BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zimbabwe abandons its currency Should the UK retain the Sterling? The exchange rate variations we see those days...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Monday -my letter to the MP's against Heathrow Expansion

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I've bought in Greenpeace's airplot , genius idea, and still thanks to them, I've sent the following letter to the 57 MP's w...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Essential reading: 2M Group on Heathrow Expansion

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The 2M Group has an excellent summary on the economics of Heathrow. No need to add much: Current airport • Fewer than 26% of users of Heat...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Just a reminder: London has FIVE airports, all competing against Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris

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Read this The Impossible Airport Dream? (Londonist ) and saw that Frankfurt ready to fill Heathrow's shoes (BBC) this morni...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Hoon's farce as Heathrow expansion is announced

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Geoff Hoon gave in the lobbies arguments and gave the Government's Go-ahead for new Heathrow runway . His arguments are farcical for a l...
Monday, January 12, 2009

The parking rip-off continues in Richmond

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It seems the bright sparks in our council are doing all they can to extract more money from motorists and kill local business: after chargin...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Good running book: Injury-Free Running

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Found this great book after an ITB problem prevented me from running properly the Richmond half-marathon a few years back: Injury-Free Runni...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

What if those who govern us had a long term view about strategic infrastructures?

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I posted the following comments on this blog post of this morning: The Toleration Of Public Transport on Jonathan MacDonald.com These are th...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The end of the hospital phone ripp-off!

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It seems that at last, Mobile phones are finally passed fit for use in hospitals - Times Online I've always thought that this mobile pho...
Monday, January 05, 2009

Happy new year and more foul play from the DfT on Heathrow Expansion

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Grim news this morning as the impact of the proposed Heathrow Expansion is worse than planned: New flight paths for Heathrow will bring jets...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Children friendly pubs: and the winner is...

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The Marlborough sits chiefly on top of Richmond hill and boasts one of the largest gardens -complete with children playground- of the area,...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Children aren't the center of the world

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The Times has more today on Childcare is bad for your baby, working parents are warned. If this doesn't make any working mum feel guilt...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Gastropub review: The Plough

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The Plough (link to the Trusted Places page where you can leave your own ratings) in East Sheen has been "gastropubed" recent...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Restaurant review: Le Bouchon Breton

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Le Le Bouchon Breton is nicely located on the new mezzanie floor of Spitafields market -perfect for a city lunch and Xmas shopping in one t...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

More on Manor road and Heathrow

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Seems now the government is embarrassed: Decision on third runway delayed(BBC.co.uk) ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

This year, Father Christmas will be old fashion

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I'm doing what most parent spend most of their free time in December and November and have decided to resolutely be old fashion: no wii ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Darling and the impact on the Sterling

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Read this morning Pre-Budget Report and Alistair Darling's £1 trillion debt gamble (Times Online ) What the chancellor, and the media, ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Traffic in Richmond park

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Richmond park has come up with a way to limit the increasing Traffic in Richmond Park : The way forward for Case 17165. In a nutshell, they...
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Restaurant Review: Club Gascon

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I'm running way behing with my restaurant reviews and Cook Sister has already posted a very good review, so I'll simply link there: ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Parking in Richmond

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Another parking post, after the one on Kingston hospital parking : I need not to add much to the picture apart that I was taking my child to...
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