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  • Mon Nov 2 2009 Rebecca Taylor

    X marks the spot

    No crowds! No barriers! No more being pinned like a limpet in a tsunami against the glass facade of Topshop! I've just had my first taste of the new diagonal (X-style) pedestrian crossing at Oxford Circus – and stepping onto the tarmac, well, a very joy it was to be alive! What do you think of the new crossing? And more to the point, does it owe it's existence to Tokyo – or Balham ?
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  • Mon Nov 2 2009 Rebecca Taylor

    Mail van hell

    No post might mean no Christmas cards, but frankly that's a small price to pay if you're a cyclist in London. Whilst I have every (well, some) sympathy for the Royal Mail workers, my bike ride about town feels noticeably safer when Royal Mail vans are off the roads. As a cyclist, mail vans have got to be enemy number one (OK, number two next to bendy buses). They have a tendency to cut you up, drive too close and speed up behind you with the sort of urgency that might be acceptable if they had the Crown Jewels on board, but not sack fulls of overdue water bills. Have you been tormented by mail vans? Let us know. . .
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  • Fri Oct 30 2009 Peter Watts

    Pick of the week: best of the London blogs

    Lucky Jim on the Oubliette group's new squat in Leicester Square.

    Not exactly this week, but I've only just discovered this excellent parody of David Peace previewing the new football season - the Chelsea and Arsenal sections are particularly fine.

    Pertinent question of the week as Christopher Fowler asks: What makes a Londoner?

     
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