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		<title>By: Transport Committee Drives Forward Congestion Plans &#124; Londonist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Transport Committee Drives Forward Congestion Plans &#124; Londonist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] of traffic lights, a trial of pedestrian countdown crossing timers, the creation of a roadworks permit scheme and a code of conduct for utility companies.’TfL backed this up by saying they had seen a 7% [...]</description>
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		<title>By: stephen shaw</title>
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		<dc:creator>stephen shaw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unspoken truth is that since Local Authorities had to relinquish their sole role as road manager/hand over to utilities responsibility for reinstatements etc., matters have turned on their head.Utilities say frankly they pay lip service to the matter; underneath, couldn&#039;t give much of a fig - why? In part because individually and collectively they employ &quot;specialist contractors&quot; to take the flak of section notices from fines L.As&#039; may impose. Worse still, the large specialists tend to ringfence the income from utilities, then sub contract problems, in turn some of them may do the same; it&#039;s all above board but leads to waterfall of approved contractors all hlding a slice of the cake except the last man doing the work. They only have to provide a 2 yr life and the cycle of failure can always be suitably obfuscated - why should they provide better and they&#039;re working on a shoestring so only the cheapest products that will do the job can be used. It is in no-ones interests to provide a first time reinstatement that lasts longer - it would spoil the party. Local Authorities take differing views on the fines - income for some - a nuisance to others - depends on the local politics. One contractor recently said he couldn&#039;t care what they do on fines it&#039;ll all get passed back to the customer and if they can&#039;t do that, then they&#039;ll buy the silence of the Local Authority by renting the road at a much higher cost to keep them quiet and just pass on a much higher bill. The Utilities say at the end of the day we have shareholders and really not interested in Local Authority concerns, they can pick up the tab if they&#039;re so bothered about it. The real folly of it all is that there are voidless compaction &quot;biblical materials&quot; manufactured today with a whole life in excess of 100 years re-usable repeatedly and contain recycled aggregates but the participants in the merry go round are for the most part determined not to go there. Who wants the everlasting light bulb when fleecing the customer produces enormous profits for all, hidden inside a smiling and nodding brigade of road menders and client companies who are all more interested in keeping the party going. The suppliers of temporary materials, noisy compaction equipment, plastic cone suppliers etc - why of course not - why? Because they too would all have to do more work to the wider network now failing - that&#039;s what motorists want but it isn&#039;t what everyone else at the party wants. Instead the holes in the road will increase and the road life reduce by up to 30%, but then so what, you&#039;ll pay for that too!The entire system is bomb proof and we all pay for it with no right of redress because LA and Utilitie can all take their customers to prison if they object to paying - that&#039;s UK democracy at work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unspoken truth is that since Local Authorities had to relinquish their sole role as road manager/hand over to utilities responsibility for reinstatements etc., matters have turned on their head.Utilities say frankly they pay lip service to the matter; underneath, couldn&#8217;t give much of a fig &#8211; why? In part because individually and collectively they employ &#8220;specialist contractors&#8221; to take the flak of section notices from fines L.As&#8217; may impose. Worse still, the large specialists tend to ringfence the income from utilities, then sub contract problems, in turn some of them may do the same; it&#8217;s all above board but leads to waterfall of approved contractors all hlding a slice of the cake except the last man doing the work. They only have to provide a 2 yr life and the cycle of failure can always be suitably obfuscated &#8211; why should they provide better and they&#8217;re working on a shoestring so only the cheapest products that will do the job can be used. It is in no-ones interests to provide a first time reinstatement that lasts longer &#8211; it would spoil the party. Local Authorities take differing views on the fines &#8211; income for some &#8211; a nuisance to others &#8211; depends on the local politics. One contractor recently said he couldn&#8217;t care what they do on fines it&#8217;ll all get passed back to the customer and if they can&#8217;t do that, then they&#8217;ll buy the silence of the Local Authority by renting the road at a much higher cost to keep them quiet and just pass on a much higher bill. The Utilities say at the end of the day we have shareholders and really not interested in Local Authority concerns, they can pick up the tab if they&#8217;re so bothered about it. The real folly of it all is that there are voidless compaction &#8220;biblical materials&#8221; manufactured today with a whole life in excess of 100 years re-usable repeatedly and contain recycled aggregates but the participants in the merry go round are for the most part determined not to go there. Who wants the everlasting light bulb when fleecing the customer produces enormous profits for all, hidden inside a smiling and nodding brigade of road menders and client companies who are all more interested in keeping the party going. The suppliers of temporary materials, noisy compaction equipment, plastic cone suppliers etc &#8211; why of course not &#8211; why? Because they too would all have to do more work to the wider network now failing &#8211; that&#8217;s what motorists want but it isn&#8217;t what everyone else at the party wants. Instead the holes in the road will increase and the road life reduce by up to 30%, but then so what, you&#8217;ll pay for that too!The entire system is bomb proof and we all pay for it with no right of redress because LA and Utilitie can all take their customers to prison if they object to paying &#8211; that&#8217;s UK democracy at work!</p>
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		<title>By: janina davison-forder</title>
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		<dc:creator>janina davison-forder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-27515&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;janina davison-forder&lt;/a&gt;: 
i would be interested in knowing the opinion of the person who voted this particular post down as i have no idea why you did not like this, please get back to me on this as i would really like to hear your views on the subject. JDF</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-27515" rel="nofollow">janina davison-forder</a>:<br />
i would be interested in knowing the opinion of the person who voted this particular post down as i have no idea why you did not like this, please get back to me on this as i would really like to hear your views on the subject. JDF</p>
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		<title>By: janina davison-forder</title>
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		<dc:creator>janina davison-forder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Roadworks? hmm. i seem to recall hearing of these but have now come to the conclusion that they are an urban myth! 
We see the signs displaying hardworking silhouette men doin our tar paths a fine service. Yet i do not recall actually seeing these being caried out???

We make our way to work or such like half an hour to spare just in case we encounter any strange amounts of traffic along the way or to allow for spontaneous shopping if we see a new deal in the high street on our journey, then we are met by every motorists best friend... the dreaded off- spring of the the traffic lights, which have not as of yet fully matured, standing a few foot tall these teenage taunters of the traffic let around two cars go from eachside of the roadworks at a time!

Friends, voters, countrymen i hear your cries! The roads must be kept in good condition, there must be a system to do this and there is! There are workers by the hundreds, thousands even more, where are they i hear you cry, well they&#039;re over at bob&#039;s cafe having a cuppa!! Workers of the road do as you must keep our lanes in shape install your pipes at will, 
but please we would like to see you at work so we can dismiss the poor road elves who come during the night and carry out these works under cover of darkness when we are tucked up in bed! We also wouldnt mind if you were to carry out just one set of works upon a single road at a time, please we ask think of our poor side roads too, whom are riddled with more cavities than the teeth of a sweet obsessed toddler. Councils, boroughs we ask of you do not show predujice against our smaller roads and maybe allocate certain monies to these works throughout the year instead of using the last of the taxable years budget within the last month to look after our poor petrol pathways.
If this can be done, if we all keep up our side of the deal the only lanes we will need to rent are the ones at the local bowling alleys!   JDF</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Roadworks? hmm. i seem to recall hearing of these but have now come to the conclusion that they are an urban myth!<br />
We see the signs displaying hardworking silhouette men doin our tar paths a fine service. Yet i do not recall actually seeing these being caried out???</p>
<p>We make our way to work or such like half an hour to spare just in case we encounter any strange amounts of traffic along the way or to allow for spontaneous shopping if we see a new deal in the high street on our journey, then we are met by every motorists best friend&#8230; the dreaded off- spring of the the traffic lights, which have not as of yet fully matured, standing a few foot tall these teenage taunters of the traffic let around two cars go from eachside of the roadworks at a time!</p>
<p>Friends, voters, countrymen i hear your cries! The roads must be kept in good condition, there must be a system to do this and there is! There are workers by the hundreds, thousands even more, where are they i hear you cry, well they&#8217;re over at bob&#8217;s cafe having a cuppa!! Workers of the road do as you must keep our lanes in shape install your pipes at will,<br />
but please we would like to see you at work so we can dismiss the poor road elves who come during the night and carry out these works under cover of darkness when we are tucked up in bed! We also wouldnt mind if you were to carry out just one set of works upon a single road at a time, please we ask think of our poor side roads too, whom are riddled with more cavities than the teeth of a sweet obsessed toddler. Councils, boroughs we ask of you do not show predujice against our smaller roads and maybe allocate certain monies to these works throughout the year instead of using the last of the taxable years budget within the last month to look after our poor petrol pathways.<br />
If this can be done, if we all keep up our side of the deal the only lanes we will need to rent are the ones at the local bowling alleys!   JDF</p>
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		<title>By: The Hon Mrs Jamieson</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Hon Mrs Jamieson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where is every body? Oh dear, stink bombs seem to have driven every body away!

Talking about bombs, folks. Did you see, after that Patel had failed to blow that Detroit bound plane off on air, well tanned American President Morgan Freeman went on television to address the world, vowing to do anything in his power to hunt down the bastards, to protect American citizens blah, blah... Then American Home Front Security Woman Kathy Bates went on TV to declare that &quot; We don&#039;t automatically put that person on our black list just because someone has warned us about that person. We don&#039;t work like that! &quot;  Yes, Sir!

Oh, so Hollywood. Bloody hell, that country is sooooo Hollywood influenced that they act as if they were in a Hollywood film, say &quot; INDEPENDENCE DAY &quot;, &quot; 2012 &quot; etc... That the whole world must watch them and not the other way round.

Make no mistake- it&#039;s impossible to prevent any Patels to carry hidden bombs  onto a plane. Patels will get more clever. They will stuff themselves with Tesco&#039;s economy baked beans before boarding. Then how can you stop them?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where is every body? Oh dear, stink bombs seem to have driven every body away!</p>
<p>Talking about bombs, folks. Did you see, after that Patel had failed to blow that Detroit bound plane off on air, well tanned American President Morgan Freeman went on television to address the world, vowing to do anything in his power to hunt down the bastards, to protect American citizens blah, blah&#8230; Then American Home Front Security Woman Kathy Bates went on TV to declare that &#8221; We don&#8217;t automatically put that person on our black list just because someone has warned us about that person. We don&#8217;t work like that! &#8221;  Yes, Sir!</p>
<p>Oh, so Hollywood. Bloody hell, that country is sooooo Hollywood influenced that they act as if they were in a Hollywood film, say &#8221; INDEPENDENCE DAY &#8220;, &#8221; 2012 &#8221; etc&#8230; That the whole world must watch them and not the other way round.</p>
<p>Make no mistake- it&#8217;s impossible to prevent any Patels to carry hidden bombs  onto a plane. Patels will get more clever. They will stuff themselves with Tesco&#8217;s economy baked beans before boarding. Then how can you stop them?</p>
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		<title>By: The Hon Mrs Jamieson</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Hon Mrs Jamieson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did someone mention gas emissions, stink bombs and global warming earlier? With the recent bad weather, I wonder if it has anything to do with people&#039; recession diet of mainly Tesco&#039;s economy baked beans ( on toast )?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did someone mention gas emissions, stink bombs and global warming earlier? With the recent bad weather, I wonder if it has anything to do with people&#8217; recession diet of mainly Tesco&#8217;s economy baked beans ( on toast )?</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-27484&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David&lt;/a&gt;: @&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-27474&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captn P&lt;/a&gt;: 

Utilities are regulated industries. Lne rental costs would be operationally incurred and as such would unfortunately be passed on to consumers (if I understand it correctly) :(

I would like to see trials that prove the cost results be worth the cost</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-27484" rel="nofollow">David</a>: @<a href="#comment-27474" rel="nofollow">Captn P</a>: </p>
<p>Utilities are regulated industries. Lne rental costs would be operationally incurred and as such would unfortunately be passed on to consumers (if I understand it correctly) <img src='http://www.boris-johnson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I would like to see trials that prove the cost results be worth the cost</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Half of all road works are undertaken by Local Authorities. So when Boris says &quot;36 per cent of London traffic delays are caused by roadworks&quot; that is 18% due to utilities and 18% by the Boroughs. Equally, the total cost as a result of both is £500 million EACH. Utility works are heavily regulated from teh sound of things. Why are borough works also?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Half of all road works are undertaken by Local Authorities. So when Boris says &#8220;36 per cent of London traffic delays are caused by roadworks&#8221; that is 18% due to utilities and 18% by the Boroughs. Equally, the total cost as a result of both is £500 million EACH. Utility works are heavily regulated from teh sound of things. Why are borough works also?</p>
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		<title>By: Dom Doze (scunt.co.uk)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dom Doze (scunt.co.uk)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pursuasive.

Please retract your attack on maggie. She is not the enemy here - despite all evidence suggesting otherwise. The enemy, as always, is time. Bloody time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pursuasive.</p>
<p>Please retract your attack on maggie. She is not the enemy here &#8211; despite all evidence suggesting otherwise. The enemy, as always, is time. Bloody time.</p>
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		<title>By: carter</title>
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		<dc:creator>carter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The mayor has repeatedly warned that the taxes, notably the bonus tax, could &quot;fast-track&quot; the relocation of up to 9,000 high-earning bankers out of the City...&quot;Add all these ill-thought-out policies together and London becomes a less attractive destination for the globe-trotting, highly-skilled businessmen&quot;

As opposed to well thought out policies such as encouraging more traffic into London by abolishing the Western Congestion Charge Zone?  Of course, such a policy will certainly win Boris Johnson some wealthy and influential friends.</description>
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<p>As opposed to well thought out policies such as encouraging more traffic into London by abolishing the Western Congestion Charge Zone?  Of course, such a policy will certainly win Boris Johnson some wealthy and influential friends.</p>
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