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Ross Lydall

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Transport Editor and City Hall Editor, The London Standard Email: ross.lydall@standard.co.uk

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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Third red paint attack on same properties in Walthamstow www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Man tells of latest red paint attack on home wrongly dubbed a brothel
Third early-morning attack on same Walthamstow homes and businesses
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We need tulips in every “Mini Holland” www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Flower power: central London cycle lane lined with tulips made from recycled plastic
Cycling festival being held across capital, from Hounslow and Hammersmith to Hackney, over Bank Holiday weekend
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“I was told to bed myself down for three nights and wait for someone to turn up." Woman breaks down as she tells @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social what it is like to be homeless in London www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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500 homes to be given to homeless under Sadiq Khan's plan to eradicate rough sleeping
Woman breaks down in tears in front of mayor as she tells of the terror of being forced to live on the streets and wait for help
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New safety alert issued for east London bus station where pedestrian was killed by double decker www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Safety alert at crash death bus station where drivers 'fail to let people cross' road
Health and Safety Executive sends TfL another warning about Walthamstow bus station, where a pensioner was killed by double decker
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Pedestrian dies after collision with e-bike rider in west London www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Pedestrian dies after collision with e-bike rider on busy west London high street
Man in 60s dies in hospital more than a month after crash at the Shepherd’s Bush market end of Uxbridge Road
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Exclusive: Another red paint attack on homes in east London www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/r...
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Exclusive CCTV footage of red paint attack on homes in Walthamstow
EXCLUSIVE: Watch CCTV footage of latest in series of early-morning attacks reportedly linked to Chinese gangs
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Latest in the court case relating to the death of cyclist Harry Webb: accused driver pleads not guilty and expected to claim 'loss of consciousness' www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/h...
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Woman driver pleads not guilty to causing death of cyclist Harry Webb in Hackney
Accused expected to claim she suffered ‘loss of consciousness’, court told
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Barnet council by-election: Labour holds seat, Tories second but Reform polls 592 votes
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Own goal? Council crackdown on free parking spreads to more children’s sports venues www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Hackney marshes parking row: astroturf pitches, rugby, sailing and tennis targeted
Council to charge up to £5.70 an hour to park at Mabley Green, West Reservoir and Spring Hill park
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fewer than 4,000 affordable homes started in London in 2024/25 - with eight boroughs building fewer than 10 new homes www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Inside City Hall: pictures show the London landmark half-derelict and awaiting a promised transformation into offices, restaurants and shops www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today’s adventure… 🚲 💻
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
London’s housing crisis: three words that never seem to go away www.standard.co.uk/comment/sadi...
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Sadiq Khan's plan to build on London's greenbelt is a total misdirection
Sir Sadiq Khan has stepped back into the breach by signalling a willingness to allow developers to build on pockets of Green Belt land.
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wow! Victory for West Dulwich LTN campaigners www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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South London low-traffic scheme opponents celebrate shock High Court victory
History made as High Court rules against Lambeth council over traffic scheme
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Its all kicking off at Hackney marshes: council plans to introduce parking charges for grassroots footballers (and charge more than Westfield) www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Hackney Marshes football clubs slam 'extortionate' parking charge plan
Hackney council to charge up to £5.70 an hour to park at the marshes where David Beckham and John Terry learned to play
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Another interesting speech from @florenceeshalomi.bsky.social 👀 www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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School closures: MP says cost of living crisis means families can't afford London
Family seeking housing in Camden offered a place in Manchester - while Enfield council considers buying homes in Liverpool
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Time trials ditched and London Duathlon feared unlikely to return to Richmond Park after Royal Parks puts the brakes on cyclists www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Royal Parks 20mph speed limit for cyclists could prevent return of London Duathlon
Fears that annual event will never take place again in Richmond Park - as cycling club ditches time trials
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This Lime bike v London bus crash gets worse every time I watch it www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Lime bike rider miraculously avoids serious injury in bus crash
Video of horror crash in Shoreditch viewed hundreds of thousands of times
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Headphone dodgers” row gets a hearing at PMQs - with people who put feet on seats next in the firing line @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Turn it down! Passengers who play loud music on trains are anti-social, suggests PM
Londoners back £1,000 fines for passengers who play music on speakerphone
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Virtually every time I travel by train or Tube in London these days I spot a fare dodger blatantly pushing through the barriers. (I don’t blame station staff for not daring to intervene - one did at Liverpool St recently and risked assault) www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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War on fare dodgers stepped up amid concern of surge in ‘gate-pushers’
Efforts to target bus network hampered by lack of Met police support
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Alarming research reveals the scale of the danger posed to pedestrians and cyclists - especially children - by "supersize" SUV cars www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What not to do if you drop your AirPods on the Tube… www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Don't do this! Tube chaos after passenger jumps onto live tracks 'to recover AirPod'
Thousands stuck in tunnels while CCTV was checked to ensure passenger had not fallen under train at Earl’s Court station
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Cyclists in royal parks asked to limit speed to 20mph www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Speeding cyclists are being urged to slow down in London's Royal Parks
But it’s unclear how rule will be enforced after Royal Parks police axed
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New data on cycling in the City of London 👀
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Coroner issues 'intoxicated passengers on Tube' alert after artist's accidental death www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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TfL urged to do more to safeguard intoxicated passengers after artist's Tube death
Sarah Cunningham was killed after accidentally walking into Tube tunnel
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Bikes outnumber cars two to one in the City of London www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Twice as many bikes as cars in 'Square Mile' after 57% increase in City cyclists
Change part-fuelled by massive rise in use of Lime and Forest e-bikes
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Hina Bokhari OBE AM @hinabokharild.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We all want Oxford Street to thrive but as I told @eveningstandard.bsky.social @rosslydall.bsky.social I share concerns about lack of transparency and proper engagement. Local communities need to trust the process if we're going to make pedestrianisation a success⬇ www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Sadiq Khan faces backlash from residents over Oxford Street pedestrianisation
Residents’ groups tell London Assembly investigation that need for change has been overstated by Mayor of London
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Motorist charged with causing cyclist’s death ‘had been driving at 53mph on 20mph road’ www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/d...
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Driver charged with causing cyclist's death 'was travelling at 53mph in 20mph area'
Music student Harry Webb died two days after the crash, which happened as he cycled to London Fields lido
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New Piccadilly line picture exclusive 👀 www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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First sight of new Piccadilly line train undergoing testing on London Underground
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: First of 94 new trains spotted during late-night testing in west London
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
At last, a TfL story with a happy ending www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Good vibrations: Sex toys found on Tube among lost items returned to passengers
Cockfosters was the station where most sex toys were discovered before the pandemic
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Another Tube station has passenger "book swap" bookshelf removed because of "fire risk" www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Tube and Overground station latest to be hit by fire brigade 'community bookcase' ban
Blackhorse Road loses free book exchange despite mayor’s pledge to intervene
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The odd thing about this story is that the RMT appears to have more active Tube driver members than Aslef, traditionally the choice of train and Tube drivers www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Four-day week for Tube drivers 'not stuck in sidings' despite Aslef and RMT divide
1,107 Aslef members back the changes - but 1,219 RMT members are opposed
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tragic loss of a brilliant young Londoner leaves coroner close to tears as she rules Tube death was accidental www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Coroner fights back tears as she finds drug Tube death of young artist was accidental
Sarah Cunningham was hit by Northern line Night Tube train after taking cocktail of recreational drugs
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The inquest into the Tube death of artist Sarah Cunningham is due to be held on Wednesday www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Inquest of brilliant young artist found dead at Tube station due to open
Sarah Cunningham’s death aged 31 led to outpouring of grief from art world
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
More developments in the race to provide rival services to Eurostar from St Pancras www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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London to Paris and Milan? New plans for long-distance trains from St Pancras
The announcement is the latest to boost hopes of a major breakthrough in cross-Channel rail travel
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Silvertown bike bus reviewed www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Opening day test ride: The Standard's verdict on Sadiq Khan's Silvertown bike bus
Shuttle bus will run every 12 minutes through Sir Sadiq Khan’s new road tunnel under the Thames
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Statue unveiled in memory of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Ella Kissi-Debrah: Statue unveiled of London girl who inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez
Statue funded by public donations stands same height as nine-year-old Ella
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Race across the concourse: St Pancras plans to have passengers on their way to Europe 15 minutes after arriving at the station www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Race Across The World fever: St Pancras plans to board trains to Europe in 15 minutes
Passengers ‘able to depart for Europe 15 minutes after arriving at station’
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
TfL has reduced a bus route in east London down to a frequency of one an hour www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Pupils complain after TfL bus changes leads to detention for arriving late at school
Deputy head says reduced timetable leaves up to 50 pupils waiting for a bus
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
London bus deaths: TfL updates figures as it recovers from cyber attack www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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TfL vows to improve safety after 20 people died in London bus incidents last year
Fatalities included 10 pedestrians, two cyclists and eight passengers
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cyclists not welcome in redesigned Oxford St www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Oxford Street 'extremely unpleasant' if cyclists allowed in pedestrian area
But cyclists could be allowed to ride through the street ‘out of hours’
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cyclists would make a pedestrianised Oxford Street “extremely unpleasant” says Sadiq’s walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5fT...
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cutty Sark DLR station will close on May 31 for up to 10 months to allow all four broken escalators to be replaced, TfL has announced. Station due to reopen next spring, in time for the 2026 London Marathon.
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Rail firms expecting tough new targets on train cancellations www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Train cancellations 'to be cut to 2%' under rail renationalisation crackdown
Great British Railways to crack down on worst cancellation rate in a decade
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
12-year-old riding Lime bike in hospital after road collision www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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12-year-old Lime e-bike rider rushed to hospital after crash in north London
A boy aged 12 was taken to a major trauma hospital after being injured in a car crash in Tottenham
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Good to chat with Lumo’s MD about his expansion plans: more low-price trains to/from London www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Lumo to treble London trains: new routes to Manchester, Scotland and West Country
King’s Cross operator wants new services from Euston and Paddington
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
One week before the Silvertown tunnel opens, TfL let me have a look inside… www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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£2.2bn well spent? First look inside Silvertown tunnel, one week before it opens
TfL says toll income will be reinvested in other public transport schemes
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Eurostar’s train depot at Temple Mills in Leyton is “able if required to accommodate additional trains” says the rail regulator - paving the way for other rail firms to enter the cross-Channel market and offer rival services to/from St Pancras
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What happens when motorists challenge a PCN in London? I spent a couple of days in court finding out www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Motorists fight back against London councils making millions from penalty tickets
Almost half of appeals against London boroughs and TfL result in victory for drivers
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Noah Vickers @noahvickers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
SCOOP: The Government suggested closing Hammersmith Bridge to *all* users (even pedestrians) and turning it into 'a monument', as one of six options for the bridge's future - a document obtained through FOI reveals. The proposal was 'quickly' dismissed www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Government suggested making Hammersmith Bridge an unusable 'monument'
EXCLUSIVE: Ideas for bridge’s future were ‘quickly’ dismissed but the crossing could potentially stay car-free forever, document reveals
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