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The Big Give! Your donations will be doubled until Monday as part of a Christmas Challenge!

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💯 with you on that. Our UNESCO heritage site certainly does need urgent improvements! Greenwich foot tunnel is also of great historical value & an *invaluable asset* for commuters.Struggling up & down steps with a bike, pram (no chance for wheelchairs) is unacceptable. @inclusionlondon.bsky.social

Two disabled people sitting in a city park. They are facing one another, laughing and grinning. One is a white woman in a leather skirt with long sandy hair. The other is a black man with a limb difference. The image has a jagged yellow frame. The words ‘run by and for disabled people’ appear in bold capitals underneath the picture on orange tape. Matching orange arrows point to the picture and words.

Transport for All is a Disabled Person's Organisation or DPO. That means we are led by and for disabled people. We understand the barriers disabled people face to transport, because we experience them. Find out more about the impact we have: https://bit.ly/435rQ4c

Lewisham's cycleway network has trebled in size (or has it?) Transport for London hailed the increase in cycleways in Lewisham, but large parts of the "new" routes already existed.

@tomilyn.bsky.social checks out the two "new" cycle routes for Lewisham

(photo from 2008, yes 2008)

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The Mayor must explain why our Foot Tunnels, which provide cross river cross borough links for walkers,cyclists,wheelchair users & mobility cycles do not qualify to be part of TfL Strategic Network. @sebdance.bsky.social @transportforall.org.uk
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The tunnels are cross borough transport infrastructure.Why can’t TfL take responsibility rather than just one borough fighting for funding from another?Can’t they adjust LIP funding to the three boroughs to cover costs? Something must be done!
@londonassembly.bsky.social

"With high numbers of families in temporary housing, wouldn’t it make much more sense to reserve some of this prime land for the council to build social housing on? At the very least one of these car parks should be kept for council homes instead of selling them off for peanuts.”

If you've got 2 minutes spare today, why not sign our petition to make public transport free in London actionnetwork.org/pe...

The whole USA is talking about free public transport, thanks to Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, who made it an election pledge. Here's a podcast that talks about the pros and cons of making bus free for everyone thewaroncars.org/202...

Good morning , your #FoxOfTheDay from Karin Tearle ( @bellegreenwich ) today - thank you Karin !

Mamdani has pledged free buses for New York, could London be next? "If New York City can consider making buses free, so can London and other big world cities", say campaigners Fare Free London.

Mamdani's pledged free buses for New York - could London be next?

@farefreelondon.bsky.social interviewed New York transport researcher Charles Komanoff about the benefits

www.salamandernews.org/mamdani-pled...

🚽 World Toilet Day today and I’m off to join the @londonlooalliance.bsky.social at White Hart Lane to enjoy one of the new toilets installed by TfL.

💷 So glad that I eventually got the Mayor to put £3m a year for five years into improving toilet availability on the transport network.

Reprieve for Woolwich Common trees after cycle lane plans halted - The Greenwich Wire More than 50 trees on Woolwich Common that were set to be chopped down have been given a reprieve after an application to widen a road was taken off a planning committee’s agenda.

More than 50 trees on Woolwich Common that were set to be chopped down have been given a reprieve - at least for now - after an application to widen a road was taken off a planning committee’s agenda.

Plans for a new cycle lane had received over 500 objections.

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In France for a break. The sheer number of cargo bikes you see in cities and larger towns is really encouraging. It doesn’t seem to be a novellty or a fad.

Image of escalator removal preparation and the last chunks of escalator being removed.

Empty void ready for new escalators and heavy steel lifting beams and chains used to extract the old escalator.

Hey 👋 anyone who likes peering at civil engineering projects as they get underway.

There's a new and helpful TFL update on the Cutty Sark Station escalators. They seem to have made decent progress in September and October.

Londoners slam broken foot tunnel lifts dividing north and south of Thames A residents’ campaign group says years of neglect have left the tunnel lifts unreliable, unsafe, and excluding the most vulnerable

Greenwich Foot Tunnel should be a KEY Thames crossing - but with the North Side lift broken for months, disabled people, parents with prams, and cyclists say they're being cut off from jobs, family and everyday life.
www.change.org/p/lifts-now-...
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‘I used to be a bit naughty’: Portsmouth defied funding cuts and saved its youth centres – here’s what happened Two decades ago, Portsmouth city’s council chose to fund and prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see

These play centres are the beating heart of our communities “a "second home", a space where they feel seen and safe".

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We’ve launched #FightFlyTipping Fortnight to protect the places we love and stop unlicensed traders dumping our rubbish, ruining neighbourhoods & costing public services.

Take 3 steps:

1️⃣ Ask for their licence
2️. Check it’s valid
3️. Get a receipt

Read more here bit.ly/4odr65A

Campaigner Karin Tearle, Greenwich In the latest part of our series looking to ban glyphosate from public spaces we meet the woman who epitomises the saying - if you want something doing.......do it yourself!

We need to change perceptions and change the narrative around street plants. Please engage with the campaign & share your experiences 🙏🏼🍃💚glyphosate@thenortherneco.com . #BanGlyphosate thenortherneco.substack.com/p/campaigner...

10:00 12/11/2025 THE CHAMBER, CITY HALL, KAMAL CHUNCHIE WAY Road space, driving & congestion

Tomorrow, #AssemblyTransport will continue its investigation into road space, driving and congestion in London with questions about freight. Find out more: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

“You don’t necessarily have to ban cars to create great places. But you do have to completely redefine the cars role. You have to prioritize cars last and people first.” — Brent Toderian

You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.

Unfortunately it is not the "how" that is in debate here, it is the need to convince TfL to take over the Tunnels.It may be that some Statutory Instrument has to be laid down in the Commons to transfer ownership but that would only be if TfL agreed to take them over.

TfL may not be interested in taking on the foot tunnels but they are critical infrastructure providing a resilient way for people to cross the river east of tower bridge under their own steam. If TfL can build Silvertown Tunnel for people with cars then they can provide lifts for people on foot.

Not sure Riverlinx (nor TfL) should charge for walking through this tunnel. Surely poor PR for the mayor when he’s encouraging active travel.

Please follow Save Greenwich Adventure Playgrounds for up to the minute consultation info!

"I want to make a country we can all afford to live in."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.

Tamasin's report back for Shooters Hill ward.

Join the Fight Against Fly-Tipping! 🚫

We’re excited to announce that Keep Britain Tidy’s first-ever national “Fight Fly-Tipping” campaign is launching on November 10!

We’ve heard some shocking stories of wheelchair and mobility bike users having to drag themselves up the stairs. We’re going to be leafleting at Island Gardens entrancevery close to the accessible DLR tomorrow from 5:30pm. @inclusionlondon.bsky.social please join us if you can.

“the same argument applies to the Woolwich tunnel and common sense would dictate that what’s good for Greenwich is also good for Woolwich.” Maureen O’Mara, former Labour councillor.
Caroline Russell, London Assembly, has taken up the cause for both foot tunnels 🙌
@carolinerussell.bsky.social