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  • Travel Chaos in the night the snow fell

    By aloquifique at 01:29 on 05/02/12
    streatham hill station locked
    Picture here posted 1:30 am, Sunday 5 February, on Twitter.  Streatham Hill Station locked, so 30 people are caught and climbing through the window to get out!! Picture posted by Tom Neenan. By 2am on Sunday 5 February, Twitter was also reporting that the whole of Clapham Junction had become a car park for busses and none of them were going anywhere!
  • Balham Road Crossing Trial Leads to Roll Out of New Technology

    By aloquifique at 20:10 on 20/01/12
    Countdown Crossing - Photo: Magnus D/Flickr
    A successful road crossing trial in Balham has led to the proposed roll out of 200 new countdown crossings around London. The trial was carried out on Balham High Road, outside Balham Station, as one of eight test sites for the new technology.  At all trial sites, fewer people felt rushed when crossing the road with Pedestrian Countdown, compared to without. The most significant reduction was at the Balham trial site, where the...
  • More Car Club Cars on Balham Streets

    By aloquifique at 16:36 on 13/01/12
    Car Clubs Pay as You Go Cars in Balham
    More car club cars on Balham streets as Wandsworth Council continues its efforts to expand the environmentally friendly, money saving scheme.    The roll-out of new vehicles means all Balham residents now have a low cost, pay-as-you-go hire car within a short walk of their home. There are more than 30 car club bays in Balham alone and this figure is set to rise in the early part of this year. The Council first introduced...
  • More Bums on Seats on Balham Trains

    By aloquifique at 10:36 on 10/01/12
    More bums on seats on Balham trains
    Balham commuters will have more chance of getting their bums on seats on their daily train journey.    Southern Railways has now confirmed it is ordering extra carriages for rush hour services in December 2013 meaning more Balham travellers can now look forward to a more comfortable journey to work.    The company operates key local routes including the overcrowded service to Victoria via Balham, Wandsworth Common,...
  • Fancy Balham for some Boris Bikes?

    By aloquifique at 19:21 on 18/10/11
    Boris Bike
    Suggested locations for new Barclays Cycle Hire docking stations have been flooding in since the council announced is was short listing potential sites in the north of the borough. The Mayor's popular scheme is set to expand into south west London in 2013. If approved some 50 to 60 docking stations would be installed in the area of Wandsworth which lies to the east of Putney High Street and north of the South Circular. The...

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