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OPINION - The London Question: Are London's buses getting more dangerous?

London’s transport commissioner, Andy Lord, was not having a good day. Appearing at City Hall for a question-and-answer session recently, he began in chipper mood, saying he was looking forward to a “momentous year” for Transport for London as it celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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Research to explore how two London suburbs can get thousands more homes

Studies will examine how more housing can be built in two neighbourhoods at opposite ends of London - along with several other areas

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OPINION - If Sadiq Khan wants to know how to fix London nightlife, he should go to an afters

Central London’s nightlife is dead, no matter how much Sadiq Khan tries to fix it. If he wants to save the city’s real nighttime economy, he needs to ask the wreckheads

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Ban e-bikes or we’ll strike, threaten London Underground drivers after platform fire

Three fire engines were called to an e-bike blaze at Rayners Lane station last month

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Sadiq Khan unveils £7m fund in bid to clean up London's rivers

Funding comes as the mayor hosts a roundtable summit with Thames Water and other agencies - but is criticised for failing to include the London Assembly

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Sadiq Khan demands book exchanges reinstated in Tube stations amid fire safety row

TfL had ordered the libraries’ removal for fire safety reasons outlined by the LFB - but Mayor says he is hoping for ‘very swift announcement of a U-turn’

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OPINION - Long live the book exchanges on the Tube: they're the best of London

Thank you Sadiq Khan, for seeing the light. Whatever your critics make of you, surely they can’t criticise you for this: stopping books being removed from tube stations.

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Tory boroughs refuse to join Sadiq Khan's Green Belt review

The review will examine how parts of the green belt could be re-classified as grey belt, eventually enabling homes to be built there

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Sadiq Khan's policing strategy 'woefully inadequate' on phone theft, say Tories

Criticism from the mayor’s opponents comes as he prepares to publish the final version of his Police and Crime Plan for the next four years

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Sadiq Khan: We all have to do better to deliver the housing London desperately needs

The Mayor travelled to the Mipim property conference for the first time to seek foreign investment in London

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Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel tolls: TfL launches quick way to check if you have to pay

Online vehicle checker now includes tunnel tolls - but doesn’t show whether discounts are available to low-income Londoners

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Interactive map reveals London's 'not-spots' with poor internet connections - how does your area compare?

Pockets of the capital still lack connections of 30Mb/s, including a third of premises in the ‘square mile’ of the City of London

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Concern over 'low take-up' of Silvertown and Blackwall Tunnel toll discounts

Sadiq Khan urged by Liberal Democrats to do more to ‘ensure local people are fully aware of the discounts available to them’

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Revealed: how Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion cut road pollution in every outer London borough

Transport for London publishes data for how pollution levels have been affected by Ulez expansion

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Credit where it’s due for cleaner air in London

Letters: Sadiq Khan should be congratulated for expanding the Ulez scheme despite criticism from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, says Peter Walker. Plus a letter from Dr Robin Russell-Jones

Evening Standard

London mayor Sadiq Khan: I have 'no plans' to move the goalposts on Ulez vehicle emission rules

20-year-old petrol cars and vans and 10-year old diesels will remain exempt from £12.50 levy

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Ulez not about raising money for Transport for London – Sir Sadiq Khan

The Mayor of London was speaking a year after the scheme was expanded.

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Third runway at Heathrow would 'wipe out environmental benefits from Ulez', warns Sadiq Khan

Mayor steps up opposition to Heathrow expansion as new report finds further improvement to air quality thanks to ultra-low emission zone

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Sadiq Khan warns Trump to prepare for protests on second state visit

London mayor hints a new Trump baby blimp could fly above the capital during president’s second state visit

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Ulez expansion to Greater London boundary has driven air pollution down, TfL reveals

Nitrogen dioxide down 4.8%, carbon dioxide down 1% but traffic increases

The Guardian - UK

Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion

People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas

The Independent UK

London boroughs which opposed Ulez expansion see biggest pollutant cut – study

Sir Sadiq Khan extended the ultra-low emission zone to cover all London boroughs on August 29 2023.

Evening Standard

Legal action fund to block Sadiq Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation voted down

Conservative councillors had hoped a judicial review could ‘force the mayor’s hand’ over what they call an ‘ill thought out vanity project’

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“Mid-sized cities as potential locations”: The Las Vegas Sphere was just the beginning… Are we about to see a new global wave of mini Spheres?

With London’s Sphere scotched in planning and only Abu Dhabi’s venue in progress, is dramatic downsizing the answer?

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Sadiq Khan accused of 'astounding complacency' in net zero mission

Deputy mayor dismisses concerns Sir Sadiq will ‘swan off into the sunset’ without getting London ‘anywhere near’ net zero carbon emissions

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