London mayor What has he done??

[discokermit]

Besides if your driving in London your doing it wrong and you’ve no right to bitch about traffic. Traffic is what happens when you condense a population of millions into an area 25 miles square.

i lived in london, worked as a steel fabricator in south wimbledon and then croydon, everyone either drove to work or got a lift off of someone who drove to work.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Just looked this up because of this thread. It's the Tories that are imposing this. Khan is actively opposing it.

The narrative that Khan spent all the money is being bandied about quite vigorously by right wing loonspuds, Khan did freeze fares so things were tight, but what fails to get mentioned in the narrative is that tfl funding is fucked because of a global pandemic that’s seen an unprecedented drop in travel.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Are they? My daughter is still a child and gets free London travel.

I am elderly and get free London travel.

But don't let any facts cloud the fun of troll baiting.

 

[brogdale]

i lived in london, worked as a steel fabricator in south wimbledon and then croydon, everyone either drove to work or got a lift off of someone who drove to work.

south wimbledon

ie. Morden, Merton High & Colliers Wood; now who's being the bourgeois liberal?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

So that oyster I paid £15 for is now going to be useless?

what oyster that you paid £ 15 for? don't quite understand...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I am elderly and get free London travel.

depends how you define 'elderly'

the statutory english national concessionary scheme allows for people of pension age (or people who have reached womens' pension age where they are still different) free travel on local bus services (with a few exceptions for special services like sightseeing tours and so on) anywhere within england between 0930 and 2300 monday - friday and any time at weekends.

local authorities can not give less than this, but they may, if they wish, give travel to their local (or any) pass-holders outside those times, or on other modes of transport (e.g. trams, trains, underground etc) and london has a discretionary scheme for people 60+ but not yet pensionable age.

i'm not fully in touch with what's going on in london, but think it's some of the discretionary bits which have been (or are going to be) cut back a bit.

 

[discokermit]

ie. Morden, Merton High & Colliers Wood; now who's being the bourgeois liberal?

lol. round plough lane it actually made me feel like i was back in the black country.

East Road Trading Estate · 68 East Rd, London SW19 1AH

Building

www.google.co.uk

the industrial bits of morden merton and colliers wood i thought were generally the other side of the a24.

 

[The39thStep]

Khan provokes a fairly virulent reaction for someone who is, at worst, a bit of a rubbish mayor.

Outside of the OP here there's the fact he regularly comes in for a far greater number of personal attacks from far-right mentalists than lots of other boring Labour centrists. I think he's a fairly naff politician for the most part - moderately well-spoken but dealing primarily in vague soundbites, but there's clearly a vitriol directed towards him that's a lot worse than anything dished out to other Labour politicians.

Which is true but doesn’t answer the question what has he done ?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

what oyster that you paid £ 15 for? don't quite understand...

You still have to buy and register the Oyster card for free travel for your kids, the £15 is an administrative fee for setting up the photo card on the system.

I really didn't hear anything about any of this and the Oyster website just mentions that changes might be coming soon, but maybe not if your kid is two miles or more from their school. My daughter is two miles by road, but maybe just out of the limit as the crow flies. I have no idea how they would implement this. Some kids get free oyster some kids don't? As far as I know they can't just update the cards just like that.

 

[brogdale]

lol. round plough lane it actually made me feel like i was back in the black country.

East Road Trading Estate · 68 East Rd, London SW19 1AH

Building

www.google.co.uk

the industrial bits of morden merton and colliers wood i thought were generally the other side of the a24.

Reminds me of when I took a work-mate of mine to Priestfield for Gills vrs the Black Cats; he was expecting the Garden of England and ended telling everyone in the boozer that, in his HO, the Medway towns were a considerably bigger shithole that Sunderland. Quite a night.

 

[Artaxerxes]

lol. round plough lane it actually made me feel like i was back in the black country.

East Road Trading Estate · 68 East Rd, London SW19 1AH

Building

www.google.co.uk

Used to live by Earlsield and the dog track.

Hell of a contrast to Wimbledon

 

[stavros]

I am just wondering what good sad dik khan has actually done whilst becoming a mayor?
Any clues?
Housing promise broken
Free fares for children gone
Free fares for the elderly gone
Pollute our roads? Yes very much so by causing traffic jams that make journey times double
Being a role model? No. Preaching us to go green and he get driven in high gas omitting 4x4s and whilst many will loose jobs and livelihoods he goes and gets a brand new Range Rover?

What happen to the bus drivers son? Made the roads dangerous for buses and cars with the useless poles in the middle of the roads.

Total waste of time space and money. Our money!

He was always likely to struggle to reach the world-beating standards of his predecessor.

 

[Serge Forward]

why is the op assumed to be a bigot? none of the points raised are the usual bigot talking points.
sadiq khan is a cunt. this site is becoming infested with bourgeoise liberals.

It's not a question of Saddiq Khan being a crap bourgeois politician, he is. It's more a case of Khan being a focal point for every far right dipshit and Trumpist cheerleader.

 

[Alli]

Not sure why all the rude idiots have to be so nasty
who cares about the typos it’s idiots like the above that say rubbish that ruin this world

hopefully Covid will sort them out

 

[Alli]

And he's stolen your apostrophes

Idiot get a life

 

[Serge Forward]

 

[Alli]

And he's stolen your apostrophes

Twat who the hell are you go take a hike

 

[Alli]

Racist.

Idiot poles are on the roads dumm dick

 

[FridgeMagnet]

this is rubbish though, I was expecting more

well no I wasn't but

 

[Alli]

I'm not a grocer and I doubt Alli is either

What’s that mean Twat

 

[Serge Forward]

Comma after mean.

 

[two sheds]

awww banned and he was so polite

 

[Serge Forward]

I was charmed.

 

[brogdale]

You'd think Shaun Bailey has better things to do with his time...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

You still have to buy and register the Oyster card for free travel for your kids, the £15 is an administrative fee for setting up the photo card on the system.

I really didn't hear anything about any of this and the Oyster website just mentions that changes might be coming soon, but maybe not if your kid is two miles or more from their school. My daughter is two miles by road, but maybe just out of the limit as the crow flies. I have no idea how they would implement this. Some kids get free oyster some kids don't? As far as I know they can't just update the cards just like that.

hmm

that may be why it's taking a while to implement

i'm a bit out of touch with these things, but it was the case a few years back that there was an obligation on local education authorities (so that would be the london boroughs not TFL) to provide transport to school age children who live more than a certain distance from school - although that's generally on the basis they go to nearest school with space available rather than travel miles due to parental choice.

presume that boroughs used to buy bus passes from TFL for kids entitled to free transport, not sure how it worked when the london wide free travel thing happened - possibly some contribution from the boroughs which now needs disentangling again.

 

[Guineveretoo]

depends how you define 'elderly'

the statutory english national concessionary scheme allows for people of pension age (or people who have reached womens' pension age where they are still different) free travel on local bus services (with a few exceptions for special services like sightseeing tours and so on) anywhere within england between 0930 and 2300 monday - friday and any time at weekends.

local authorities can not give less than this, but they may, if they wish, give travel to their local (or any) pass-holders outside those times, or on other modes of transport (e.g. trams, trains, underground etc) and london has a discretionary scheme for people 60+ but not yet pensionable age.

i'm not fully in touch with what's going on in london, but think it's some of the discretionary bits which have been (or are going to be) cut back a bit.

The thread is about London. In London, people over 60 are classed as elderly for the purposes of free travel.

I get free travel because I am defined as elderly in that context.

I was only being flippant, though. I was not expecting a serious answer!

 

[tonysingh]

Reminds me of when I took a work-mate of mine to Priestfield for Gills vrs the Black Cats; he was expecting the Garden of England and ended telling everyone in the boozer that, in his HO, the Medway towns were a considerably bigger shithole that Sunderland. Quite a night.

The arse end of Gills is NOT representative of the Medway Towns as a whole (or a hole!).

 

[Winot]

hmm

that may be why it's taking a while to implement

i'm a bit out of touch with these things, but it was the case a few years back that there was an obligation on local education authorities (so that would be the london boroughs not TFL) to provide transport to school age children who live more than a certain distance from school - although that's generally on the basis they go to nearest school with space available rather than travel miles due to parental choice.

presume that boroughs used to buy bus passes from TFL for kids entitled to free transport, not sure how it worked when teh london wide free travel thing happened - possibly some contribution from the boroughs which now needs disentangling again.

Yes it’s exactly why it’s taking time to implement. There’s no record of distance to school of London school kids because there has been no need to know because travel has been free anyway.

 

[brogdale]

The arse end of Gills is NOT representative of the Medway Towns as a whole (or a hole!).

Agreed, but when you get off the train and schlep up to Priestfield and back (via the pubs up there) it's possible to appreciate how a Mackem might have been surprised at the garden of England!
FWIW, being born & bred in a N.Kent terrace by the railway, I've always felt more at home in Gillingham than some of the more swanky, gentrified bits like Rochester, but there you are.

 

[tonysingh]

Agreed, but when you get off the train and schlep up to Priestfield and back (via the pubs up there) it's possible to appreciate how a Mackem might have been surprised at the garden of England!
FWIW, being born & bred in a N.Kent terrace by the railway, I've always felt more at home in Gillingham than some of the more swanky, gentrified bits like Rochester, but there you are.

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Meh, everyone knows that Chatham is the glittering jewel in the crown of Kent.