Analysis How can I reduce my emissions? I like to consider myself vaguely green - I don't own a car, I recycle all I can, turn off the lights when I leave a room, and even have some low energy lightbulbs. But all of this is wiped out by two factors: I fly far too much,
Analysis Cyclists & red traffic lights It's one of the most infuriating things about cycling in London: the behaviour of other cyclists, and specifically their tendency to completely ignore red traffic lights. I stumbled across this entry at the Black Triangle blog about this matter. The author - Anthony Cox - is opposed to a cycle
Analysis Deception on the way to Stockholm OK, travelling with budget airlines is never pleasant. But yesterday on the way to Stockholm it made me really angry. First of all the bus - the Green Line 757 service from London Victoria to Luton Airport. I get on the bus and ask for a return to Luton, and am
Analysis Bus etiquette It was almost exactly a year ago when I was shouted at on a bus in Brussels for not having left my seat in favour of a pensioner. I was in the wrong then and had not really been concentrating. Since then I have aimed to pay the utmost attention
Analysis No to scanners at railway stations What a ludicrous idea. The government has announced that it is going to start a pilot to install bag-scanners in some railway stations, starting with Heathrow Express departures from Paddington - see this from the BBC. Now, UK railway stations are already crowded enough with the cumbersome ticket barriers that
Belgium Finally home - journeys should not be like this! You sometimes have to ask yourself whether anything else could possibly go wrong on a journey. I have had just about anything and everything over the past 22 hours. The fog at Baden Airpark was so thick yesterday evening that it almost looked like it was snowing under the floodlights.
Quick takes OK, being community spirited is not such a good idea On my wave of being socially responsible in London (see this post), I decided to do the same again and try to prevent my fellow passengers on the Stansted Express last night getting stuck at Tottenham Hale. But this time I encountered opposition and inaction. Maybe that will teach me
Analysis A small good deed in Lambeth When cycling home this evening from Waterloo towards Clapham, it soon became clear there was a major problem - no traffic southbound from Lambeth Bridge all the way to the Vauxhall Cross roundabout. Turned out there had been an accident there - quite serious, and apparently a fatality according to a bemused
Analysis Ken Livingstone and the genius of Oyster Shock horror! Tube and bus fares in London are going up again. Oh, no, they are not actually. Everyone has been ranting today that a Zone 1 tube fare will hit ??3 for a single - more than 3 times as much as Paris. But on the other hand, make that
Analysis The London Underground: some practical ways to improve it I do my best to cycle to and from work regularly, partly because it keeps you fit, but partly because the London Underground is the only other reliable option to get from Clapham to Westminster. The system is old, and expensive and hot to travel on in summer. Those things
