Barnet Times: "Residents in Grahame Park call for better scrutiny over regeneration estate work"

"DISGRUNTLED residents have hit out over the management of building work in Grahame Park after months of misery caused by 'noise, dust and pollution' ”.

Follow-up to Guardian Report on Public Transport

"The Buchanan report springs to mind on reading the Campaign for Better Transport's study, which roundly and rightly praises those cities that have laid on abundant and cheap public transport as a rather less drastic approach to taming the car. Ever since 1960, attempts have been made to try and keep this machine under control.

"Libertarian bores will insist this is due to some patrician hatred of mass mobility, but the CBT's report reminds us that what we could call "transport poverty" is something that afflicts the old, the unemployed, and the ill; and that the most effective means of dealing with traffic-choked cities is through public transport, rather than moralising."

(Thanks to the Brent Cross Coalition for this item.)

Extract from 'The Guardian' on Public Transport Investment

Harrow MP proposes "A Royal Commision on the Future of London"

“London is one of Britain's greatest assets — the doorway to the rest of the UK. With huge challenges facing London, now is the time to consider what the long-term response should be to those issues."