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Man who closed my neighbourhood police station "very disappointed and mystified" at closure of his neighbourhood police station
Very disappointed and mystified at closure of Uxbridge Police Station. Fully support Hillingdon Conservative’s call for rethink
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TfL are so broke that the new tube map contains five IKEAs
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How the Overground lines could have been named in 2015, had Boris not blocked it
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Now Nike's gone, every single outlet at Hackney Walk (the doomed fashion hub paid for with £1.5m of public money) is now empty.
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The number of HS2 platforms at Euston was going to be 11, most recently 10, but will now be just 6 (ensuring phase 2 can never be built)
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The Mildmay line goes nowhere near the Mildmay Hospital. The Windrush line passes within 150m (and the Weaver line within 500m)
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Its job done,
@Crossrail
has just deleted its Twitter account, taking with it a 12-year stream of thousands of tweets and thousands of images (including this one)
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25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving
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On the new tube map, Paddington is a four-blob double-daggered sprawl
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When you remembered Kentish Town and Iver but the designer originally didn't
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Don't forget to enjoy the traditional St Crossrail's Eve supper before you go to bed tonight 💜
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Sixteen London bus routes are to be withdrawn by the end of next year: 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 24, 31, 45, 72, 74, 78, 242, 349, 521, C3, D7
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Well I wouldn't have numbered the Superloop like that
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Britain's lowest-numbered A road (the A1) meets Britain's lowest numbered B road (the B100) outside Barbican tube station
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Here we go… it’s time to name the Overground lines! See here:
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Official TfL map showing all tube tracks, platforms, crossovers, depots & ghost stns (17MB)
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If you live in East London, tonight's your last post-9pm sunset until May 2024. If you live in West London you've got one more tomorrow.
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Thanks to
@dracos
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Two angry Whitehall demos - one schoolchildren trying to save the planet, the other old men queueing in diesels
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The most popular journey on the tube is Brixton to Oxford Circus
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Happy 10th birthday to the bus map outside Canning Town station. Is it London’s oldest?
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Now open, the new station entrance at Hackney Wick (birthplace of plastic)
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The City's newest highwalk ends in midair because the building at one end has been demolished
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There have been six dates with identical digits so far this century, but for the rest of your life they'll only occur every 11 years.
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Adverts have triumphed over train times at Euston station
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Magnetic north, true north and grid north align over Great Britain for the first time in history
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There are no local elections in London today. You'd hope a former Mayor of London would know this.
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I buy the same diary every year
2019: £5.99
2020: £6.99
2021: £6.99
2022: £7.99
2023: £9.99
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Safety advice from the John Lewis trampolines webpage: "You should never put live animals and pets on a trampoline."
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The Conservatives have now been in power for 1 day longer than New Labour
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nothing says British
like waiting in drizzle
draped in a flag
three hours early
with M&S sandwiches
cheering as the portaloos go by
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Crossrail's opening date is somewhere in the purple box, just saying
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The tube map at White City bus station hasn't been replaced since 2009
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Circular tube map now appearing at certain Circle line stations (for contrived sponsorship reasons)
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Where to sit on a Crossrail train (don't sit in the middle)
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A 13 year-old has now lived through five UK Prime Ministers.
A 40 year-old has only lived through seven.
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Today is probably the third and final time you'll celebrate Easter on April 4th
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Next week Britain's worst Prime Minister, who replaced Britain's worst Prime Minister, will be replaced by Britain's worst Prime Minister
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The tube map is now IKEA-less
(and has a dagger at Kentish Town, which will be closed from 26 June until summer 2024)
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Today is only a bank holiday because George VI was a heavy smoker.
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The Elizabeth line's first engineering works have been announced. They include a full Saturday closure of the central section just 18 days after it opens.
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The elevator labyrinth at Tottenham Court Road station
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TfL have signed a 2 year sponsorship deal to rename the Dangleway as the "IFS Cloud Cable Car", and nobody except TfL will call it that
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Price of the Christmas Radio Times over the last 20 years
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Length of tenure as Prime Minister
Boris Johnson: 2 years 346 days
Neville Chamberlain: 2 years 348 days
Theresa May: 3 years 11 days
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I can't remember the last time Boris Johnson announced something we didn't already know
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At Theobalds Grove station,
@LDNOverground
contractors are currently installing signs WITH THE WRONG SPELLING
http://t.co/Hmkyqn3jLj
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Liverpool and Manchester are the same distance apart as Heathrow and Upminster
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From June 28th the Dangleway will be operated by FirstGroup (who also run Avanti West Coast, London Tramlink and a lot of buses)
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London's newest walking route, the 18 mile Green Link Walk linking Walthamstow to Peckham, launches today (a cousin to the Capital Ring, London Loop, etc). Here's a link to 45 pages of route description
Today’s the day! Heading out to meet
@willnorman
@TfL
@FootwaysLondon
@LDN_LS
@CPRELondon
@gojauntly
& others at the launch of London’s newest walking route, the
#GreenLinkWalk
this morning- the 1st of 6 new Greenways we campaigned for
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10 years ago the Conservatives on the London Assembly proposed introducing sponsored station names to raise funds for the tube. Today one of these (temporarily) happened
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Sunset in London will now be after 8pm until the last weekend in August
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Public opinion in the Lambeth Country Show Veg Tent seems to prefer Kale Marx, just ahead of Carrot Southgate
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After making a special effort to nab the
@elizabethline
account off an American businesswoman four years ago, TfL have quietly deleted it (along with everything it ever tweeted)
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A reminder that elections are decided by voters who don't pay as much attention to politics as you do
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2022 has two different digits
If you're over thirty it's the sixth such year you've lived through
But the next is 89 years away
So that's your lot
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Picture Rupert Murdoch sitting back in an armchair, his 40-year plan finally coming to fruition, stroking a cat
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