Ross Lydall
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City Hall Editor & Transport Editor, Evening Standard. Proud dad. Reporting on @MayorofLondon @TfL London, life. ross.lydall @standard .co.uk
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As Tory mayoral candidate
@Councillorsuzie
promises to expand the Night Tube, she reveals: I was a raver back in the day 💃🏻 🥂
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Applause at the Mansion House as
@SadiqKhan
says: “We must now confront the hard truth: Brexit isn’t working.”
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Boris didn't introduce the Freedom Pass when mayor of London.
It was already being run/funded by the 33 London boroughs. It still is.
His Government prevented older Londoners using the Freedom Pass before 930am (under a
@tfl
bailout) three months after the start of the pandemic.
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Rail strike has left the City of London a virtual ghost town. This great Fuller’s pub had 196 cancellations today and only three people in at lunchtime.
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An Evening Standard reader wrote in to complain about cycle lanes causing gridlock. I was asked to reply.
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New:
@SadiqKhan
has today called for the cycle lane in Kensington High Street to be reinstated after a
@TfL
poll of 1,000 residents found almost two to one in favour.
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Extraordinary scenes in Tower Hamlets as children mount barriers in bid to save their school street being axed by
@LutfurRahmanTH
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New
@TfL
Croydon tram mascot, “Roger the crocodile”, as designed by young artist called Mariah
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Anyone want to see some baby beavers being released in Ealing?
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The moment when contractors hired by
@LutfurRahmanTH
to rip out a “school street” in Bow - under his pledge to “reopen the roads” for motorists - depart after a protest by primary school kids
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Well I never... segregated cycle lanes spark increase in safe cycling
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The number of
@TfL
staff to die with covid has increased to 103.
Which makes the refusal of some passengers to wear a mask even more troubling.
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Public service announcement from
@SadiqKhan
: on the new DLR trains, passengers can still sit in the front seat and pretend to be the driver 🚊
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YouTube prankster
@NikoOmilana
is the favourite mayoral candidate for almost one in five Londoners aged 18-24, and could deny
@SadiqKhan
a landslide victory
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Air quality expert
@imperialcollege
hits back at politicians opposed to Ulez expansion, telling them: "Go along to your local hospital and go into the respiratory wards and see the kids with asthma."
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They let me loose on the opinion pages today. Close
@theroyalparks
to traffic, use them for summer cycle training camps and build
@wfcouncil
or
@cityoflondon
-style segregated lanes in every borough, I wrote🚴♂️
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Sadiq makes a dash for his car as protesters ask to speak with him about a low traffic neighbourhood scheme
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TfL's annual Travel in London report has been published:
🚴♂️Cycling up 40% on pre-pandemic levels, including 20/25% during week and 90% at weekends.
🚲Record "Boris bike"/Santander hires: 10.9m so far this year, including 86,000 hires of the new e-bikes.
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To its credit, the pub still served up a couple of great pies and pints of London Pride
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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust has delivered more than 850,000 covid vaccines in the last year. No, that's not a misprint 👏
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The number of people cycling in inner London is up 24 per cent on pre-pandemic levels
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Work to start on Monday to build new segregated cycle lanes on either side of Westminster bridge, replacing the temporary measures in place since the 2017 terror attack, announces
@TfL
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Round of applause for the London NHS staff who slept overnight at work to be ready to care for their patients this morning
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Mick Lynch,
@RMTunion
: “I have got people coming up to me in the street and when I’m travelling around London and all around the country, saying ‘Good on you."
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Tunnel vision: Silvertown tunnel reimagined as a car-free crossing, with lanes dedicated lanes for buses, cyclists and pedestrians
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NEW: speed limit to be reduced to 20mph on virtually every road in five London boroughs to improve road safety.
The changes in Camden, Islington, Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets include
@TfL
red routes such as Euston Road, Finchley Road, Mile End Road and Seven Sisters Road
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This group of six Bounds Green residents just forced
@SadiqKhan
to hole-up inside a coffee shop on the first day of his re-election campaign. They wanted to protest about a low traffic neighbourhood
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I was in court for the latest stage in the sentencing of a hit-and-run driver who killed a young mother as she cycled home.
The CCTV of the incident was horrifying.
The victim impact statements from her widower and sister will stay with me forever.
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Terrifying: all these cyclists cannot be seen from the driver's cab of a construction lorry, finds
@lborouniversity
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Today’s
@EveningStandard
front page: 51% of all roads in London now have 20mph speed limits
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“I would like to know how many more of your residents need to be maimed or killed by motor vehicles before you accept that this is a serious problem that requires solving.” Furious letter from
@SadiqKhan
to
@RBKC
leader Elizabeth Campbell re Holland Park cycleway fiasco.
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Of all national rail operators and all London Underground lines, which is the busiest in the UK? You may be surprised…
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Latest Ulez data: 95.3% of vehicles in current zone now comply with rules (and don’t have to pay), including 96.6% of cars.
Daily average of 25,727 drivers pay the £12.50 levy.
Average of 3,922 penalty fines (£180) issued each day.
Compliance rate up from 93.4% in a year.
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The 1,206,034 votes won by
@SadiqKhan
tonight was the second highest total in the history of the London mayoralty (after his record 1.3m in 2016) while his 228,433 majority over
@ShaunBaileyUK
was also the second highest on record (after his 315k majority in 2016).
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Cycling casualties are up 11%. This would be a terrible time to stop making London’s roads safer
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Newspaper columns by politicians are often tedious. This one by
@AndyBurnhamGM
is an exception
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Tory MP Theresa Villiers wants Government to ban:
❌ Ulez expansion
❌ low traffic neighbourhoods
❌ cycle lanes
❌ wider pavements
❌ 20mph limits
“It is time to lift the stigma increasingly attached to driving. It is time to scrap anti-car ideology.”
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Just been for a look around the first new mainline train station in London in a decade. Brent Cross West opens on Sunday.
Up to eight Thameslink trains an hour: 12 minutes to/from St Pancras. 🚆
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On the morning that
@SadiqKhan
announces £69m a year for more school streets in London, this fabulous scheme - which pupils helped to create at Chisenhale primary in Bow - is being ripped out by
@LutfurRahmanTH
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In possibly the most exciting news from City Hall for a long time,
@SadiqKhan
is spending £39,154 on the reintroduction of beavers in Ealing
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Very busy Lizzie: £20bn line about to hit 200m journeys since launch and nears peak capacity in rush hour “hotspots”.
@TfL
commissioner Andy Lord: “This just goes to show the power of investing in public transport.”
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🚨Coming up
@EveningStandard
: In possibly the highlight of my career in journalism, I've tracked down the Good Samaritan who returned Susan Hall's lost Oyster card 🚨
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How much of the London Underground is actually underground (ie in tunnels)?
Bakerloo 98.9%
Central 34.9%
District 31.1%
Ham&City 63.7%
Jubilee 52.4%
Met 4.9%
Northern 69.9%
Piccadilly 46.3%
Victoria 100%
Waterloo & City 100%
(Via FoI request answered by
@TfL
)
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Court of Appeal judgement in Bishopsgate "Streetspace" battle has been published - overwhelming victory for
@TfL
that leaves cab trade facing £100k legal bill
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Draft proposals published on how to remove traffic from Parliament Square
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South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park is set to be permanently closed to vehicles
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The cycle to work scheme is now "unlimited" in how much you can spend on a bike (used to be £1,000 max), meaning savings of about 25%-35% can also be secured on e-bikes and cargo bikes, reveals
@willnorman
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LTNs: turns out they're pretty good at keeping Londoners safe...
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Take that, Rishi: another 65km of main roads in London to be converted to 20mph next month, alongside campaign to win over “hearts and minds” and explain the huge safety benefits of lower speeds,
@TfL
confirms
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Fact of the day (from
@TfL
): black cabs are now the biggest source of nitrogen oxide pollution on central London roads.
If they weren’t exempt from the Ulez, three-quarters would be in breach of its rules on toxic emissions.
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BREAKING: The number of London bus drivers to die with covid has increased to 38,
@SadiqKhan
tells
@mrjamesob
on LBC
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New Tube roundel unveiled by
@SadiqKhan
and TfL commissioner Andy Lord at Baker Street station to mark the 160th anniversary of the London Underground
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New:
@TfL
has decided to retain the Park Lane cycle lane and make it permanent.
TfL says the bi-directional lane, introduced during the pandemic, is used for 2,400 cycle trips a day.
But some Tory politicians are opposed and
@Councillorsuzie
vowed to axe it if she becomes mayor
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Walk this way: pedestrian crossings to have “green man/woman/person” on as default to prioritise pedestrians over drivers 🚦
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Astonishing results from Walthamstow MiniHolland: 10,000 fewer cars a day, traffic down 56% in village, no collisions
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Meet the Luton Dart, the £290m cable car shuttle that takes passengers from Luton Parkway rail station to Luton airport in about three minutes (at a cost of £4.90 for adults).
A “soft launch” is underway and full services start by the end of the month.
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No response from
@RBKC
tonight to apparent imminent removal of High St Kensington cycle lane.
Since its introduction, the 🚲 lane was being used by 3,000 cyclists a day - more than double the number of cyclists on HSK in October 2018.
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Wow:
@SadiqKhan
beats
@ShaunBaileyUK
in the Tory candidate’s childhood (Tory heartland) back yard of West Central, polling 70,808 1st & 2nd pref votes to 68,900.
In 2016,
@ZacGoldsmith
was almost 10k ahead
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Lambeth & Southwark: thumping net majority of 77,632 for
@SadiqKhan
. He leads
@ShaunBaileyUK
by almost 20,000 1st & 2nd pref votes now the first three constituencies have been declared
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Wow. Figures for first four months of
@SadiqKhan
’s Ulez show 35% reduction in the most polluting vehicles in congestion charge zone during the day (compared with month before it launched)
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Ludgate Circus, 9am: North/South cycle superhighway.
I’m normally at my desk long before 9am so rarely see how rammed the main cycleways are at peak times. This is how London rolls… 🚴 🚴♀️🚴🏻♂️
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New: work on a segregated pop-up bike lane in Euston Road will start TOMORROW,
@TfL
confirms.
There will be TWO lanes - one on either side of the road.
The space given to vehicles will be narrowed by one lane in each direction and the speed limit reduced to 20mph within a month
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New:
@SadiqKhan
confirms Ulez WILL expand across Greater London on August 29 next year.
15 per cent of vehicles registered in outer London will be liable for the £12.50-a-day levy.
City Hall estimates five million Londoners will breathe cleaner air as a result.
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Breaking:
@TfL
has the legal power to use CCTV cameras to enforce parking restrictions on Red Routes, High Court rules.
TfL had been facing the threat of having to refund up to 500,000 tickets had it lost:
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Great pic from
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
picket at Charing Cross hospital. Via
@savehfhospitals
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Central line gets new seats - new moquette pattern called Tuppeny (the line used to be known as the Twopenny or Tuppeny Tube).
First refurbished train now being tested between Hainault and Woodford. One “new” train a month will re-enter service under £500m upgrade.
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Two wheels good, four wheels bad: 100,000 cyclists take to the roads on Sunday for
@RideLondon
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Council facing demand to repay £313k wasted on axed cycle lanes... as opposition petition signatories revealed to be from the US, India, Venezuela and Nigeria.
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Of the first 1,000 emails received by
@RBKC
regarding the High Street Kensington cycle lanes, 58% were in favour, council documents reveal
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Well, this cheered me up... almost 18,000 NHS staff and London key workers have taken advantage of
@TfL
's offer of free Boris bike rides during the pandemic, making almost 220,000 free trips
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Staff who repair and clean the capital's ambulances are to get an 8% pay rise after
@Ldn_Ambulance
decided to bring them "in house" and pay them the London Living Wage (of £11.05 an hour),
@danielelkeles
has announced
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Toxic air in London results in thousands of premature deaths a year. This is not a good look from
@ShaunBaileyUK
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What happened to child road deaths when Holland went bike-friendly. Great piece by
@Chris_Boardman
on Utrecht
#TdeF
http://t.co/baPtXdU1J3
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Wondering why you can no longer get a seat on the Elizabeth line?
New
@railandroad
data shows Lizzie line is busier than ever, and now accounts for one in six of all rail journeys in the UK
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What happened when
@TfL
commissioner Andy Byford asked the general secretaries of
@RMTunion
@ASLEFunion
@TSSAunion
for help with preparations for Queen’s funeral
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Can I have some more please, Sir? Yes you Khan...
@SadiqKhan
announces that free school meals for all London primary school children will continue for a second year
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Evening Standard editorial on the 40% increase in cycling criticises
@RBKC
for axing Kensington High St cycle lane and says Oxford St should be pedestrianised
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New: Lambeth council is to suspend the Streatham Wells LTN with immediate effect after massive problems were caused on Streatham High Road/A23, including three-mile bus journeys taking two hours
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World’s first “inverted” pantograph being used to deliver a 20-min rapid charge to electric bus at Bexleyheath bus garage
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Judging from the response on Twitter, this may be the most popular story I've written for some time...
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Met police commander Kyle Gordon tells
@LondonAssembly
: "Every 23 minutes, somebody is killed or seriously injured on the UK's roads."
There are 38m vehicles in the UK. Seven million are "non-compliant" eg untaxed, no insurance or MoT.
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London’s lawless roads and the truth about the so-called “war on the motorist”: me in tonight’s
@EveningStandard
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Incredibly powerful intervention from colleagues of
@EvelinaLondon
doctor killed cycling and from bosses
@GSTTnhs
demanding immediate action from
@SadiqKhan
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After a decade covering the health beat, I've been appointed
@EveningStandard
transport editor (while remaining City Hall editor).
Thanks to all the patients and fabulous NHS staff who trusted me to tell their story. It's been a real privilege.
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Claims that Grant Shapps forced
@SadiqKhan
to expand the Ulez to the Greater London boundary are false,
@transportgovuk
confirms in FoI response
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Last Friday,
@SadiqKhan
was thrown under the bus by Keir Starmer for losing Labour the Uxbridge by-election.
Today the High Court delivered what will surely be a defining victory of his mayoralty (though doesn’t guarantee victory next May).
Eight days is a long time in politics
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Just been to have a look at Old St roundabout.
@TfL
reporting today that the protected cycle lanes around the former roundabout are complete.
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Couriers
@GSTTnhs
to use cargo bikes (rather than motorbikes and vans) to transport blood products between Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. Shows how
@SadiqKhan
's ultra low emission zone can reduce toxic air 🚲🚲🚲
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