• Boris Bikes in Wandsworth by 2013?

  By allinthegenes

  Anything to do would Cllr Lister moving from Wandsworth earlier this year to be the Deputy Mayor at...

            

   

  By aloquifique at 08:25 on 29/07/11

  

  Plans are being prepared to extend to Mayor's popular 'Boris Bikes scheme to Wandsworth.  The first cycle superhighway to be introduced, the CS8, routes through the Borough to Westminster. Now, the council is discussing with Transport for London the possibility of extending the Barclays Cycle hire scheme to the borough. These discussions are at an early stage but if they prove successful, then Boris Bikes could arrive in...

• Some residents oppose Balham 255 bus route extension

  By ianfreeman

  Absolutely agree. In addition it would give Streatham residents access to Balham town centre, with...

            

   

  By aloquifique at 22:15 on 04/07/11

  

  Residents in Balham opposed to plans to make their residential street a bus route will have a chance to voice their concerns direct to bus chiefs at a public meeting later this week. Bosses from Transport for London will be attending a public meeting in Balham on Wednesday evening to discuss their plans to extend the 255 bus route along Old Devonshire Road. This proposal was first mooted in the summer of 2009 but was met with a wave...

• Balham Underground Oyster Card Error Messages

  By davorgdavorg

  Didn't last long though, did it? It was gone by the time I went through the station at about 6:30...

            

   

  By aloquifique at 17:38 on 17/03/11

  

  @anniemole on twitter - who blogs about London Underground - has posted this photo.  A London Underground member of staff at Balham Tube has taken the trouble to highlight the meaning of several common Oyster Card failure code meanings. Balham Underground has recently come out badly as a place where overcharges on Oyster cards happen often and don't get reclaimed by passengers.  At Balham Station, (National Rail) passengers...

• News Alert from Southern Railway. 1 December 2010

  By ianfreeman

  Follow the spoof @southern_trains Twitter account - hilarious!

            

   

  By aloquifique at 11:17 on 01/12/10

  

  People have been having the most awful journeys to work from Balham today, both on Southern Rail and even the underground due to a signal failure at Clapham South.  Stefan got turfed off his underground at Balham and had to get a bus to catch up with the tube network at Stockwell.  "This is a nightmare" he said "no tubes, or trains - we haven't even had that much snow!".  On Twitter everyone was...

• Where are the gritters for Balham?

  By aloquifique

  Here's the full text of sadiq's blog post, dated today at 19:18: Many residents have been in touch...

            

   

  By aloquifique at 21:47 on 01/12/10

  

  Many Balhamites are tonight complaining that Balham streets are lethal and the gritters nowhere to be seen.  Here are some of your comments below: @cwiss 'Sistovia road?  More like slipova road.  Come of Balham gritters."  @hsbarnes 'GRIT BALHAM @SophieLeBrozec 'Balham is officially an ice rink!' @Emma_Hughes 'Now I know why Wandsworth has the cheapest council tax in the country.  They clearly have no...

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