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Petrolhead Heaven In Hammersmith On TfL’s Tab

June 10th, 2009 No Comments

More from our car-loving Thatcherite throwbacks at Hammersmith and Fulham – according to the local HammersmithToday website they’ve somehow managed to persuade TfL to stump up £2.5m to widen a road at the Hammersmith gyratory system, in order to speed up cars, along with a bit of traffic light rephasing thrown in and for some [...]

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Government vs Boris on air quality

April 14th, 2009 2 Comments

Hélène Mulholland at guardian.co.uk reports that the obvious contradiction between Boris’s policies encouraging more pollution by axing the third phase of the Low Emission Zone (not to mention the removal of the Congestion Charge Western Extension Zone) and the legal obligation for the UK to cut pollution in London or face huge fines from the [...]

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