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• TfL confirms a £4 peak hours charge to use the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels

  26-11-2024 21:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The charges to use the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels have been announced by Transport for London (TfL), ahead of the new Silvertown Tunnel opening in Spring 2025.
  Silvertown tunnel (c) TfL
  Although the Silvertown Tunnel is new, the charges will apply equally to both the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels equally.
  TfL has now confirmed that peak hour charges (6am to 10am northbound and 4pm to 7pm southbound Monday to Friday) will be £2.50 for motorcycles and £4 for cars and small van
  
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• The London Buzz – 26th November 2024

  26-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  ‘Icleworth Crown Court’ – Freezing cells delay trials from being heard at London court The Justice Gap
  Buses arrive late or fail to stop at all on new routes in north-east London, residents say. Guardian Series
  Southeastern Railway has been urged to look into creating a drop-off point outside Bromley South station, as drivers are receiving fines for stopping on the road by the station. News Shopper
  Don’t grow tired of caring about Lond
  
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• New sustainable drainage systems to reduce street flooding in Tulse Hill

  26-11-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To help reduce flooding in the Tulse Hill and Herne Hill areas of south London, a network of new Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SuDS) to be constructed along the roads.
  Tulse Hill SuDS (c) Lambeth Council
  The Soak Up Lambeth programme aims to improve drainage using natural processes to reduce the impact of surface water flooding through a series of SuDS schemes for estates, schools, highways, and parks.
  The new scheme in Tulse Hill will enhance the space between Brailsford Road and Jubilee P
  
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• Tickets Alert: Discounted tickets to the Open Gardens Weekend

  26-11-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets for the annual weekend, when loads of London’s usually private gardens are open to the public, have gone on sale, with a Christmas discount for early buyers.
  Hereford Square (c) ianVisits
  The event began with volunteers’ passion to open up private West London squares and has since grown to embrace gardens across central London – from exquisite roof spaces owned by city banks, to historic institutions, community allotments and even the Prime Minister’s own Downing
  
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• TfL to clampdown on dockless bikes blocking pavements

  26-11-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is to start using carrots and sticks to deal with the scourge of dockless bikes blocking pavements in London.TfL will be both clamping down on badly dumped bikes that cause a nuisance, but will also be installing more parking bays for the cyclists to use. The scheme will however be limited to the roads that TfL controls, which are the busy red routes, which make up about 5 percent of London’s roads.
  The other 95% of roads are controlled by local councils, who hav
  
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• Planning application reveals a surprise about Heathrow Airport’s runways

  26-11-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Planning applications can reveal surprises, such as that planes weren’t allowed to lift off from Heathrow Airport’s northern runway when flying eastwards.
  Photo by Harrison Lugard on Unsplash
  It’s generally beneficial to fly into the wind when landing and taking off, which means that around 70 percent of flights at Heathrow Airport take off facing west. Heathrow uses both runways, alternating their use at 3pm each day and the pattern each week to reduce the burden on people liv
  
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• Chinese ship linked to cable sabotage urged to move into Swedish waters

  26-11-2024 11:14 via ft.com
  
  Stockholm steps up probe after two cables were cut in Baltic Sea
  
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• Look out for the Victoria line train with a unique moqette for a few weeks only

  26-11-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next few weeks, one special carriage on the Victoria line will have a unique moquette on the seats — specially designed for the Sony PlayStation.
  (c) TfL
  The makeover includes the PlayStation icons and graphics throughout the design but still looks similar to the existing Victoria line moquette, so it is not as garish as, say, when Yellow Pages turned an entire carriage bright yellow in 1998.
  The carriage takeover includes the advert spaces above the seats and also the bottoms of t
  
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