Have the Tories lost London?

more to the point, i think, having worked in one for some time, the outer boroughs are where public transport is at its worst. The Surbiton suburbs are a splendid example, i had the distinctly less than pleasurable task of staying in a B&B while working on an Air Traffic Control system for Siemens at Chessington.

Chessington is near enough to central London to enjoy the traffic congestion but too far out to have any underground servivecand the overground as they started calling it was pitiful.

Having lived and worked there albeit as a commuter i’m not remotely surprised the desire to put saddo in a midsummer wicker man is high

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If you're a key worker and have to travel off-peak, at weekends or on public holidays there is often no public transport at all.

And there's Saddo Khant wanting to punish people for not using the public transport that doesn't exist.

i freely admit a lot of it was before Khan’s time.

Some of it was under Red Ken, some under Boris.



My last foray was probably for periods of a couple of months 2014-2017. If you ever signed up to any of the TfL email alerts warning you of disruption / weekend maintenance you have me to thank for getting them, but the idiots at TfL for choosing you to receive them. I understand the company responsible lost the contract shortly after i left it to work on automotive accessory production in Abergavenny.

My cousin has lived in a converted flat in Surbiton since the late 90s and still does.

Not exactly outer London though is it?. The furthest East it goes is the Royal docks when outer London extends almost to the M25 and Dartford Tunnel.

The Royal Docks are in Newham - further East than that you have Barking and Dagenham and then Havering.

Doubt it — Essex is nearer and doesn’t require crossing the Thames. Kent was for holidays hop picking…

It was an international idea that petrol was causing vast amounts of CO2 — something diesel didn’t do, and diesel gave more mpg thus saving fuel consumption.

Then the research showed NOX and particulates were the principal danger — something that unblued diesel belched out. All mainstream political parties found themselves having to make the switch…

You know where I live there is a main road that runs through the town and no ring-road, hence quite busy. I'm not on this main road but far enough away that you could hear the traffic in the garden. Now they have made it 20mph all the way through the town I can no longer hear any traffic. 10mph makes all the difference. It's not the noise of the engines, but the air the cars cut through. At 20mph I think you have almost perfect laminar flow. The turbulence is the noise generator. So I'm really happy with it. It is so peaceful you can hear all the birds and nothing else.