Richmond Transits

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

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

More about the Richmond car park charges...

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Fury over ‘£3m cost’ of unwelcome car park charges (From Wandsworth Guardian) Implementing car parking charges in Richmond and Bushy parks w...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Park Tax

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As I was writing earlier (here Sign the petition to keep Richmond park free and there Another petition, for Bushy park ) it seems that ther...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Oyster on National Rail but not in stations

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So you can use your Oyster card in the trains around London... but you can't buy one in Richmond station -despite it being a District li...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Kew is now on Streetview

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Kew Gardens have been visited by the Google black cars and you can now do a virtual visit: Kew News - Kew Gardens On Google Street View Nice...
Friday, January 08, 2010

The circle line now runs to Hammersmith

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Good news for commuters, as it increases the frequency. I've never understood why they never joined the two Hammersmith tube stations th...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Integrated transport anyone?

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One of the most frustrating aspects of the transport system in London, apart from its high-cost (busses went from 70p to an eye watering £2 ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Lessons to be learnt from the Eurotunnel Christmas debacle

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Alright, this isn't very timely but I was enjoying my holidays in a nice farmhouse in Dordogne . So, here I am: we too were stuck with E...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Recipe: truffled quail eggs

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Very easy, once you get hold of the ingredients (readily available in Dordogne). Take some quail eggs and lay them in a tupperware with a go...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

CardAid in Richmond

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Sharmin from CardAid asked me to post this -you can help by buying your cards from them: Hello, I apologise for springing this on you out o...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

I know where my vote will go...

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It's a proposed cut I like: Tories 'would scrap third Heathrow r...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

US Police sounds Orwellian

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There's a weird sense of Orwell blended with Minority Report , a la Brazil in this clip: (via Nothing To Do With Arbroath: G20 ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Reversing the burden of the proof would encourage cycling

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I read today in The Times, an article sensationally titled Cycling plan to blame drivers for all crashes. As usual, facts are quite differen...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Cyclists to be given the right to ride the wrong way

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Read in the Times of this morning: Cyclists will be given green light to ignore one-way signs - Times Online At long last, it seems that com...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Moonsoon halts London transport system

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Says a lot on the state of our transport infrastructure... I mean I understand (well not really but) that we can be un-prepared for meterolo...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Restaurant review: Mar I Terra (Blackfriars)

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I ate at Mar I Terra on Saturday, en route to check the Thames Festival on the Southbank . Both were quite pleasant. The fete was interesti...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Heathrow is not safe: chilling crash map

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Just found the web site of the Friends of the Earth on LHR T5 -a must read, there's also a chilling map by Hacan of possible crashes o...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Bring on High Speed Two, not more runways

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Regular readers will know I think high-speed rail is a necessity. Today, on BBC .com there was an interesting statistic in this news article...
Monday, August 31, 2009

BAA caught lying... again.

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The list of BAA lies is very very long, Terminal 4 was going to be the last one , then it was Terminal 5 to be the last expansion, the plan...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Traffic pandemonium: just a sign of things to come?

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Thanks to Thames Water who shut the Northbound Clifford avenue section to replace aging water mains the A205 South Circular in Richmond (T...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Chaos in Chalkers Corner

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If you're just back from holidays you're in for a surprise at rush hour: Chalkers corner is completely grid-locked, so is Lower Rich...
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