Richmond Transits

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

Monday, May 11, 2009

Are high-speed trains viable in the US?

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Interesting article here: tripso.com | Are high-speed trains viable in the U.S.? Certainly thought provoquing in a country where "high-...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Time to nationalise the trains?

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Read in The Times this am: National Express wants taxpayers’ cash to keep running East Coast trains - Times Online At a time where rail fare...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

My no-knead sourdough bread

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I've now been baking bread almost every week-end for well over 3 years and have tried many different recipes, including this one or tha...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth day: NOx, electric cars and diesel

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I was listening to Robert Evans from Cenex , a company developping fuel-cell and "low carbon" (whatever that really means) technol...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Scrap the VAT, introduce the PAT

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I was tweeted this link yesterday: Health risks of shipping pollution have been 'underestimated' | Environment | guardian.co.uk Conf...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Comment on new cars vs. old cars

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Interesting post here: Re*Move: New Cars vs Old Cars II And my comment: Interesting conundrum. 1. Yes, rewarding for failure is wrong. Let...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Another petition, for Bushy park

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Just got this email from Mich Miller about Bushy park. Not much to add, except that I still have to figure out why Royal Parks, local and na...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Sign the petition to keep Richmond park free

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Probably inspired by Richmond Council's never ending quest to extract more taxes from motorists , the Royal Parks has launched a consul...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Social city guides

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One of my pictures went into the Schmap guides, under Borough market , in their market section: very difficult to navigate to but a good re...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Heathrow is just dangerous where it is

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Last year, the BA038 flight narrowly avoided catastrophe when the Boeing 777 crash-landed just short of Heathrow's perimeter fence aft...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Highway Robbery In Richmond

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BBC NEWS | England | London | Loading bay takes £1,400 in fines A London council has taken an average of £1,400 in parking fines per day fro...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Why were school closed today?

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The weather reports were not that bad yesterday, yet most schools in Richmond were closed. BBC NEWS | UK | Education | More schools 'mig...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Snow! How un-prepared are we?

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It's lovely here today... if you don't HAVE to go to work: over 15 cm of snow fell overnight (the heviest for 18 years), more to com...
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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...
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