It’s great to see innovation in public transport, but the most sustainable bus service is one that’s attractive to passengers by providing quick reliable journeys. London’s bus passengers are getting a dire service in this respect. London needs a sustainable transport Czar.

It’s an incredible honour to have been asked to take on this role. Louise Haigh was formidable. I will do all I can to ensure we have a transport system that drives economic growth, connects our communities and protects the environment. A mammoth task ahead.

£3 billion housebuilding schemes to unlock homes and boost growth gov.uk/government/new…

‘Most people in Southwark can’t afford these homes’: Protestors unite against Berkeley Homes’ ‘unfit’ plans for Peckham – Southwark News southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham/m…

An excellent piece on the need for public toilets in @EGPropertyNews by the society's friend and collaborator Rose Marshall of ING Media. Leanne Tritton Clare Delmar robfiehn.bsky.social egi.co.uk/news/why-its-t…

Dockless e-bike operators that allow their bikes to be parked outside of designated places may have action taken against them.

Highrise development may focus on the number of floors, but the real litmus test for success is at street level. How do we prevent developments giving way to empty shop frontage in new highrises, asks Neil Garratt AM:

There are more than 1,000 long-term empty council homes in the borough and he is banging on about the shortage of council housing! What planet is he on?

Dear councils Rather than spending millions of vanity schemes …. Clean the things ……

.Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Helen Hayes 💙🌹 Florence Eshalomi MP set up a meeeting with delegates from Lambeth Tenants' Heat Campaign and listen to those suffering on the ground in Lambeth and how Lambeth Council treats them with little more than contempt.

Barbican Art Centre gets £191 million to fund essential upgrades ianvisits.co.uk/articles/barbi… A substantial upgrade of the Barbican Art Centre is to go ahead after the City of London approved £191 million of funding for the arts centre.

Unlike schemes in narrow roads like Chiswick where cycle lanes result in a single traffic lane there is space in Streatham Hill for vehicles to pass stationary buses. However, it will still be dangerous for disabled people and those with limited sight to cross the cycle lanes.

London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies of which I am Vice President has decided to move its Twitter account to Bluesky with the account londonforum.org.uk If any of my 799 followers transfer also to Bluesky, we may be able to continue useful discussion. Peter Eversden

Cyclists in Chiswick High Road, with its 'floating' bus stops, seem to behave in the same way. Let's continue these discussions on Bluesky if Vincent and others want to transfer.

. . . and scrapped ID card proposals even though most of the countries represented at Sir Keir Starmer's migration summit in London use them.

The London Forum Bluesky account at bsky.app/profile/london… replaces our postings to X/Twitter.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan says that those bus stops that comply with TfL guidance are usable by blind people. This one here in the heart of the City of London does comply, but is clearly unusable for blind people. Retweet to support blind people’s. Access needs:

It shouldn’t take a visit to an asylum hotel by me as Shadow Home Secretary to shame the Government into action. Illegal working by asylum seekers - most of whom also entered the country illegally - is happening from the very hotels Yvette Cooper is using our money to run. The