Public transport
Londoners who travel on foot – that is, most of us – on our way to work, gigs, restaurants and the cinema need protection from cars, motorcycles and cyclists. We demand a pedestrian charter for the capital – the pavement and pedestrian crossings should be inviolate.
Ban bicycles from riverside walks, canals and park pavements outside the morning and evening rush hours.
PPF has been a fiasco: the Mayor must take the case for full public ownership of this vital asset to the government. Failing that, embrace private finance properly and ask every FTSE 100 Company with an office in London to sponsor a tube station. They can do what they like with it, as long as it works and is kept clean.
Congestion charging should be extended, but rationalised: those with particular needs (such as mothers with young children) should be charged less than the congenitally lazy.
The whole of London should be a congestion-charging zone; only then will we really begin to address the baleful effects of the motorcar on our city. This revolutionary policy would change the nature of our city forever and in adopting it London would truly show itself as a world leader.
Extended running hours on the tube, especially from Thursday to Sunday, will help improve the experience of socialising in the capital, boosting bar and club revenue and, most importantly, improving safety for women and men who are otherwise forced to wander around the capital late at night in various states of intoxication. We have one of the largest underground networks in Europe and we’re still one of the earliest to shut down.
Reduce fares on the tube and force the Oyster card on train companies so south Londoners are no longer excluded from cheaper travel.
Once inside London rail space there should be temporary decommissioning of first class to end the ridiculous spectacle of packed trains pulling into London stations with one empty carriage.
Travellers without train tickets are fined £10 on the spot: fair enough, but if a Londoner buys a ticket and the train company doesn’t supply a (reasonable) train service, then the company should also be find £10 on the spot for each passenger.
Throw money at the tube to fix all points once and for all. There should never be messages like ‘points failure’, the most common cause of tube delays.
One Sunday a month all London within the M25 should be an enforced no-car zone.
It is outrageous that London’s cyclists are regularly injured and even killed by drivers Build proper cycling lanes and install more places to park motorcycles.
Launch a bike hire service as in Barcelona and Paris.
Replace bendy buses with a mixture of single-decker and double-decker buses – failing that, prevent bendy buses from stopping across pedestrian crossingsChange all traffic light bulbs to new LED ones and make huge savings.
Stop taxis using bus lanes. This is dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians and it slows down buses.
More pedestrianisation in the city centre supported by better and cheaper public transport.
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Fine anyone who describes a football team as "we", unless they can prove they're
an employee of the club - be they team coach or turnstile operator.
Set up a licensing scheme for fans. When you can prove you've seen 100 games,
you become an accredited fan. You get a bronze medal for 200, silver for 250,
and gold for 500. Then you can also apply, to a scrutinisng committee, for
permission to begin appropriating a football team's achievements as your own.
The 'we' license won't come cheaply, however.
Meanwhile, pass a new law, under which anyone wandering the streets in a replica
football shirt, can be lawfully tackled, from behind, by any member of the public.
Similarly, no-one is allowed to pass comment on the efforts of any entertainer,
unless they've been boo-ed off at the Comedy Store (as I have) or had people
seek you out, and make a special effort to say to you "You were shit mate".
Then, and only then, can you treat us to your thoughts on comedy and drama
(under my new proposed Bill).
Are either of these laws any use?
let Hodges be Mayor
I really wish you'd managed to spell there correctly..."why is *there* dog shit everywhere."
Dog licenses are not the answer. The Mayor and/or Councils should fund free training for all ages in dog care. People do not understand how dogs think and therefore how to show dogs what behaviour they want from them. The training would of course include teaching people to clean up after their animals.
"The mayor has a good record on diversity"
Are you kidding? I suppose he does if by that you mean siphoning money off to politically correct front organisations who campaign for his re-election. I suppose he also has a good record on employing people in £100,000 per year non-jobs at the tax-payers' expense because they're his supporters.
City Hall needs cutting down to size, and the "diversity" gravy train would be a good place to start.
To promote green issues and raise the spirits of south london commuters MH must make a commitment to travel to work by bicycle dressed in lycra.
The Mayor has funded extra police officers for buses. I don't understand how putting a conductor (someone who is not a law-enforcement officer) on every bus, nearly doubling the staffing costs and thus reducing expenditure on bus policing can help reduce crime!
Thank the stars someone with a brain and with the interests of Londoners at heart is prepared to stand up to that detestable professional buffoon Johnson and that publicity-hungry berk Livingstone.
If I hadn't left London, I'd be voting, supporting and possibly even stumping up. But I have...
Good luck.
I hope this is nothing to do with me retiring.
1) You should introduce an indigestion charge
2) London is not even the most important city in England, never mind the World.
3) My wife says that if you get more than 20 votes we are leaving the city. And if that's not a vote-winner for you, I don't know what is...
Please get real with your housing manifesto. All under-occupied dwellings to be reclaimed (singletons who have traded up and snaggled family homes), including all second homes. No compensation. Realistic, longer tenancies with rent caps - by law. 'London weighting' reintroduced and enforced, and tied to property prices.
I feel it's a bit harsh to only single out aggressive young men for comment in your social issues section, what about the aggressive young women?
I totally agree with your transport policy - however, I think there is a chance that Ken would move in hat direction - I don't think the others would