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Croydon's Tory Mayor, Jason Perry, announces transport policies: Cos' Tory, he confuses cycling with masturbation: he knows people do it, but preferably where they can't be seen in public "Develop innovative cycling routes that ... without undermining essential traffic, parking ..." Links next

Slide from Croydon's new transport policy:, highlighting "Develop innovative cycling routes that link Croydon’s
green spaces, parks, schools, district centres and
stations, using quieter streets, park-edge links, green
corridors and improved crossings where these can
create attractive everyday routes without undermining
essential traffic, parking, loading or accessibility needs."

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 11h

2/ Croydon's Tory Mayor, Jason Perry, sets out his plan for a 2040 Transport Strategy in papers to Cabinet 14 Oct'2026 democracy.croydon.gov.uk/ieListDocume... 12 months of faffing starts now to justify the nonsense

Word heavy table describing a timetable over the next 12 months to write a plan for cheaper car parking

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if I had a pound for every time some idiot councillor said "let cyclists use the park!" and the cyclists went "it's not safe, it doesn't provide useful routes, it bakes in conflict with pedestrians, and your parks close at 4pm in the winter, you muppet," i wouldn't be sat here about to go to work.

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 8h

Can someone put 50p in the meter powering back office services to London councils, please?

London councils Kingston, Sutton, Westminster, Croydon, Merton and RBKC all unable to publish committee papers with database errors

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 9h

If they've fixed Word's myriad bugs then it might be cheaper for Microsoft to just buy it back.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 12h

Where on the planet has a comprehensive cycling network been delivered on back streets and through parks. What a load of bollocks.

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 11h

Many of these papers are trying to link/ comply with HMG/GLA policy, in Croydon's case trying to regain LIP money, but Perry is Perry. bsky.app/profile/last...

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 11h

Like Tower Hamlets, Croydon got legally spanked by TfL and refused further LIP funding. Officers are trying to write a sensible transport policy to address that but, as you note, undermined by Perry's stupidity.

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 11h

Perry got rid of the active travel forum during his first term, the Motorists Forum is a new gimmick for his second term and yet to meet. His role model is Ontario's Doug Ford. The people of Croydon got what they voted for.

Votes cast
Jason Stephen PERRY
Local Conservatives
35,871
Rowenna Frances DAVIS
Labour and Co-operative Party
34,758
Peter UNDERWOOD
The Green Party
19,404
Ben FLOOK
Reform UK
14,467
Richard Michael HOWARD
Liberal Democrats
7,815
Michael PUSEY MBE
Taking the Initiative Party of Britain
2,597
Jose JOSEPH
Independent
1,568
Ben GOLDSTONE
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
461

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 20h

This one's interesting HT @clondoner92.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/clon...

Description
Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking a strategic review of its Transport Modelling tools and processes. TfL currently uses a wide range of Transport Modelling tools across various modelling disciplines. Transport Modelling within TfL is largely carried out by our Public Transport Service Planning, Strategic Analysis and Network Performance Delivery teams. The tools support TfL's ability to conduct Cycling Assignment Modelling, Multi-Modal Variable Demand Modelling, Agent Based Pedestrian Simulation modelling and Public transport assignment modelling. This preliminary market engagement activity seeks to better understand the technology solutions available in the market

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@croydoncyclists.bsky.social @psimonk.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @getsuttoncycling.bsky.social @slothlydad.bsky.social Croydon's approach to a new transport strategy has dropped .. drivers at the centre, much as expected 👇 bsky.app/profile/last...

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4/ ... re Croydon unlawfully removing cycle safety scheme ... bsky.app/profile/will...

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3/ ... it's clear that TfL's withdrawal of LIP funding after TfL funded cycle lanes has stung the Tory administration ... the policy nods to the MoL's Transport Strategy with weasily words ... but a plan in Autumn 2027 that's about cheaper car parking won't do much to change change TfL's mindset.

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3/ ... btw, the Mayor of London announced that (bits of) Oxford Street will be pedestrianised from end Oct'26, with cycling banned. Westminster Council and TfL don't expect East-West cycle routes by Oxford Street until after 2027 ... if the Tory cllrs running WCC allow them 😠

text heavy table from linked pdfs, in summary:
- cycleway 43, which loops north of Marble Arch, won't be finished until late 2027, maybe
- Park Lane to Soho cycleway, east-west south of Oxford Street, still needs design work and Tory cabinet member support

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HT Fraser: Westminster Council's officers reco's re cycleways across Westminster, for most telling the Tory cllrs to stop culture-war faffing a get on with them cc @psimonk.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @westminster-lcc.bsky.social @carlafrancome.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fras...

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If the service operates under a TfL roundel, as the river bus does, then there should be standard, predictable fares like any other TfL licenced service.

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diamondgeezer.blogspot.com

DG wrote about the mad Thames river bus fares earlier in the summer ... regime runs until end October, and then? You're right about the fares being different across Uber app, Oyster, pre-pay, ticket machines etc. diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/07/uber...

diamond geezer

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committees.westminster.gov.uk

2/ ... the papers highlighted by @fraser-hay.bsky.social above are on the Westminster Council City Mngt Ctte agenda for 13/10/26 ('tis interesting the paper with the cycleway stuff is titled "Cllr Mitchell appendix" and not "cycleway updates" 🤔) committees.westminster.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

Agenda for City Management and Housing and Regeneration Policy and Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday 13th October, 2026, 6.30 pm | Westminster City Council

Venue: 18th Floor Meeting Rooms, Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP

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Gary Outram @kentridergaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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I'm not sure why National Highways think bracketing their inaccessible barriers with "Cyclists Dismount" signs is an appropriate remediation, but I will be asking.

A cycle track lined on one side with road cones and on the other alternating red and white plastic barriers. A large sign in the foreground reads cyclists dismount. The path is obstructed with wooden fence like barriers with a narrow gao alongside. Shortly beyond this obstruction there is a large sign warning of pedestrians crossing as the path crosses a site access slip road on an implied zebra crossing. Traffic passes the scene on an adjacent multi-lane dual carriageway

A cycle track lined on one side with alternating red and white plastic barriers and on the other a single plastic barrier. A large sign in the foreground reads cyclists dismount. The path is obstructed with wooden fence like barriers with a narrow gao alongside. Shortly beyond this obstruction there is a large sign warning of pedestrians crossing as the path crosses a site access slip road on an implied zebra crossing. Traffic passes the scene on an adjacent multi-lane dual carriageway

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3/ ... forgive me if I don't have a lot of sympathy for petrol headed pensioners living in £3m houses who won't use their bus passes.

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2/ ... if we assume Hugh is driving a Honda Jazz, the sort of car favoured by practical pensioners, then he's paying RBKC £201/year for a permit. He's not bitching in the Telegraph, tho, about RBKC's parking charges.

Parking Permit Calculator and Eligibility Checker
How much your permit will cost
Description Price
Base Cost for 12 Months £73.00
£1.00 Price per CO2 g/km £128.00
Total: £201.00

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still last @lastnotlost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pensioner Hugh, living in RBKC's Holland Park*, has a free bus pass. (* Companies House is very helpful)

Geriatric Hugh writes to the Telegraph:

SIR– I have given up visiting several restaurants and shops in nearby Hammersmith and Fulham because I will not pay the exorbitant parking charges. The area has a very good choice of amenities, but sadly my neighbours and I are ill-served by the authorities.

Hugh Marsden
London W14

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Liveable Streatham Wells @liveablewells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Streatham High Road is where bus priority is needed. It takes 25 minutes to go the couple of miles to Brixton and is relied upon by everyone. Hope that Lambeth and TfL will review these plans and deliver the promised improvements for bus users on the A23.

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Liveable Streatham Wells @liveablewells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The proposals for bus priority on Streatham Common North are fixing the wrong problems in the wrong places. - fewer crossings when we need more - even worse cycling infrastructure - nothing for the bottleneck junction with the A23

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2/ any idea how they're watering down the Queenstown Road scheme? bsky.app/profile/last...

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... they've hacked £1.6m from the Queenstown Road cycling scheme ... God knows what gets delivered .. presumably more paint?

g) Queenstown Road - South of Battersea Park Road (£1.6 million). Safety cycling
improvements will continue to be delivered within a lower budgeted sum.

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Yea, the capital paper moans about unfunded commitments, and the need to cut projects to reduce possible borrowings ... then adds £500k to the capex plan to move a ped xing on Putney Bridge to make more room for drivers.

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@wandsworthcycling.bsky.social @wandsworthls.bsky.social Seems Wandsworth's Tories ain't happy with the gyratory plans ... bsky.app/profile/last...

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New: Even Wandsworth's Tories are dunking the Mayor's plans for the gyratory 🤦‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/last...

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* Breaking * Wandsworth Council dunks the Mayor of London's/TfL's watered down and substandard plans for the Wands gyratory "does not deliver the level of improvement that the Council considers to be necessary" Capital paper to Finance Ctte 8/10/26 democracy.wandsworth.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

b) Wandsworth Town Centre Transformation Scheme (£18 million). Revised lower
cost proposals are being drawn up, releasing an element of capital funding. TFL
has recently launched a consultation on a proposed scheme however this does not
deliver the level of improvement that the Council considers to be necessary. The
Council will continue to make the case that investment in it will be dependent on
the scheme meeting the Council’s ambitions.

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They're a professional grump: TfL's response to their first, shorter missive, was fine. tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...

tfl.gov.uk

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2/ HT @diamondgeezer.bsky.social who says it has 1673 words and I'm not doubting him. TfL's FOI team have the patience of saints.

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CS3 CS6 Crowdsourced Count @cs3cs6count.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Mum! Grandpa's sent another FOI to TfL about Barons Court ... has he taken his meds this morning?" tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr...

tfl.gov.uk

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6/ 🚴🚴🚴 ... > 🚗🚗 Well, here's two drivers who can't claim that "no one uses those cycle lanes" (Two drivers wait to enter and exit One Blackfriars as a peloton of folk on their bikes wait to cross the Stamford Street junction on London's cycleway #C6 #CS6)

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CS3 CS6 Crowdsourced Count @cs3cs6count.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Morning! (7x10 secs traffic cam video looking towards Blackfriars Bridge 0805-0915 on 1 Oct'26, as waves of cyclists cycle north and southwards on the cycleway #C6 #CS6 track)

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30 Sept'26, late: - #CS3Count Victoria Embankment 12,129 cycle journeys today, 621,959 since the last reboot - #CS6Count Blackfriars Road - stonking 9,129 today! 914,269 since a reboot in May @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

Electronic display with the quoted scores

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Agree about 'lack of vision' etc, although an underlying factor post-pandemic and declining revenues is capex vs the unfunded capital backlog. "Managed decline" is much in evidence. See the Streets Bus & Rail paper to the TfL Prog Board next week board.tfl.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

Appendix 1: Backlog Summary
1.1 The figures in Table 1 below reflect the latest backlog. We have recently reviewed
the definitions and are now reporting only the backlog that is currently unfunded.
1.2 As we move forward, we are refining the way we calculate the backlog therefore
we expect the backlog figures to increase.
Network Asset
Estimated
unfunded
backlog (current
position)
Rail
DLR £17m
Overground £18m
Trams £129m
Elizabeth line £74m
Sponsored
Services
Woolwich Ferry £1m
Cycle hire £2m
London Cable Car £8m
River piers £60m
Streets and Bus
Bus stops and shelters £20m
Bus stations and stands £42m
Footways £11m
Structures £1,200m
Tunnels £314m
Pump stations £5m
Carriageways £60m
Drainage £6m
Lighting £50m
Vehicle restraint systems £68m
Green estate (trees etc) £2m
Traffic signals £55m
CCTV £4m
Road safety cameras £48m
Over-height vehicle detection £5m
Variable message signs £8m
Total £2,033m
Table 1: Backlog

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Ah, unelected Tory peer (ex-Wandsworth Council and BoJo crony) and property developer, living next to Wimbledon tennis club, has "social impact" concerns when he can't drive across Hammersmith Bridge. Another geriatric exploiting their HoL position for personal interests bsky.app/profile/dft-...

Hammersmith Bridge: Repairs and Maintenance
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Question for Department for Transport
UIN HL3658, tabled on 16 September 2026

Question
Lord Udny-Lister
Conservative
Life peer Lords
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the (1) economic, (2) transport, and (3) social impact of the closure of Hammersmith Bridge to motor vehicles…

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Answer
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Labour
Life peer Lords
Answered on
30 September 2026

As the asset owner and project lead, it would be for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to carry out any impact assessments related to the Hammersmith Bridge restoration project. It is for Transport for London, as London's Strategic Transport Authority, to make any assessment of the impacts of the ongoing closure of Hammersmith Bridge to motor vehicles upon the wider London transport network, such as journey times, congestion, and bus reliability.

Hammersmith Bridge: Repairs and Maintenance
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Question for Department for Transport
UIN HL3659, tabled on 16 September 2026

Question
Lord Udny-Lister
Conservative
Life peer Lords
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to support the full restoration and timely reopening to motor traffic of Hammersmith Bridge; and whether they…

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Answer
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Labour
Life peer Lords
Answered on
29 September 2026

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (as the asset owner and project lead) has applied for further project funding for Hammersmith Bridge via the Government’s Structures Fund, where it will now be considered alongside other project proposals. We are planning to confirm any funding awards later this year.

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