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17 January 2014 by sianberry
The Mayor of London disregards professionals and the London Assembly to push ahead with the Earl Court demolition proposals described by Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson as “an act of cultural and economic vandalism”. Earl’s Court at night, photo courtesy of the whiteness. Darren Johnson is accusing the Mayor of snubbing the concerns raised by […]
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The Mayor’s strategy of encouraging investor-buyers has left residents renting expensive homes on insecure tenancies argues Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson. Photograph of housing in Highbury, London, courtesy of David Holt. The Mayor of London has told the annual Mansion House London Government Dinner that it would be “utterly nuts” to deter foreign investment in […]
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson calls the plans “the last thing London needs”, stating the Mayor should instead be building “more car free developments, near to public transport, with increased space for bike storage”. Gridlock in New York city, photograph courtesy of Roy Googin. The number of car parking spaces in London could go up […]
16 January 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones calls for hundreds of kilometres of London’s rivers to be restored as a cost effective way of protecting London. “The Meadow” alongside River Thames at Pangbourne, photograph courtesy of Peter Linton. Responding to calls for back-to-natural flood reduction schemes by the Chartered Institute of Water and Environment Management (CIWEM) […]
Mayor Boris Johnson announces plans for all new taxis to be zero emission capable from 2018, but Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones says he needs to improve the charging network or Londoners health will suffer as a result. Electric car charging points in an ASDA car park in Galashiels, photograph courtesy of Walter Baxter. The […]
15 January 2014 by sianberry
“The EU has a key role to play in ensuring equality and the protection of human rights for all” says Green MEP Jean Lambert. Jean Lambert signing the pledge, photograph from Jean Lambert’s facebook page. Green MEP for London Jean Lambert has signed a pledge to put equality and human rights – including those of […]
The Green Party has re-affirmed its commitment to giving the vote to anyone over the age of 16. The Green Primary, a ground-breaking Europe-wide e-democracy project currently underway, offers anyone living in the European Union who is over the age of 16 the opportunity to vote for the two Green leading candidates for the 2014 […]
14 January 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson is angered by the underspend that could have saved vulnerable road users lives, stating the Mayor needed to “get a grip on TfL”. Darren Johnson urges the Mayor to ensure the TfL are spending the money they are given to spend on improving road safety for cyclists and pedestrians. Image […]
10 January 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones calls for the Mayor to “rewrite his Air Quality Strategy”, as the annual legal limit for the harmful Nitrogen Dioxide is breached by the 9th of January. Pollution in Oxford Street, Europe’s busiest shopping street, already breaches the annual legal limit. Photograph courtesy of Ysangkok. Readings taken at the Oxford […]
9 January 2014 by sianberry
Baroness Jenny Jones accuses Boris Johnson of “irresponsibility” after acting despite having already been recommended to protect children from junk food advertising unanimously by the London Assembly. Picture courtesy of Peter Ligerry. London Assembly Member Jenny Jones has criticized Boris Johnson’s sponsorship deal with McDonalds to help fund his Mayor’s ‘Capital Clean Up’ volunteering programme, […]
8 January 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones comments on “dithering” Mayor of London as air pollution is named a significant cause of death amongst Londoners. Jenny Jones urges Boris Johnson to take action to give Londoners the “cleaner air they deserve”. Photograph courtesy of Reedy. Clean Air in London have today released a borough by borough break […]
6 January 2014 by sianberry
Mayor Boris Johnson’s failure to deliver adequate support for electric cars in London will affect Londoners health as well as the environment says Jenny Jones. Nissan Leaf Electric Taxi in action in Japan. Nissan are launching a petrol engine taxi today which is likely to reduce some of the harmful pollutants which impact on the […]
3 January 2014 by sianberry
Jenny Jones criticises Boris Johnson for consistent under-delivery to cyclists and of being “dangerously complacent about safety on our roads” as the road safety budget is cut £35m. Image courtesy of Epson291. The trend in the rate of cycling casualties got worse in 2012, according to new figures from Transport for London. The figures also […]
2 January 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones calls for an update to the rules of the road as vulnerable road users now make up three quarters of the people killed or seriously injured in London. Cyclists at the Hyde Park Corner roundabout in London, photograph courtesy of Gerry Lynch. An Evening Standard investigation has found that 4 […]
18 December 2013 by sianberry
Green MEP Jean Lambert welcomes the new rules and hopes it will help to cut deaths due to poor air quality in London, which is estimated to be as many as 4000 a year. “London is one of Europe’s most polluted cities”, photograph courtesy of Chris L L. Tough new EU rules on cleaning up […]
Jenny Jones warns that following the Davies Commission report could result in the Government “fighting a European court case on the impacts of increased air pollution on human health.” A Boeing 747 taking off from London Heathrow, picture courtesy of Josh Hallett. The European Commission has launched new proposals today which require complete enforcement of […]
17 December 2013 by sianberry
Mayor Boris Johnson and Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson have written to London MP’s stating they are “unanimously opposed to Heathrow expansion in any form”. London Heathrow Airport Terminal 4, photograph courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz. Sir Howard Davies’s Aviation Commission’s interim report selected Gatwick and Heathrow airport as their potential options for aviation expansion. […]
Green Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones publishes a new report on road safety stating the “desperate need to update the rules of the road”. Jenny Jones AM, picture courtesy of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Jenny Jones is publishing a new report on lawless roads, six years after the previous one. The proposals arise from a seminar held in the […]
13 December 2013 by sianberry
Green MEP Jean Lambert calls for a “more balanced set of rules, based on protecting human rights” as current EU rules are deemed a “serious breach of our privacy”. European Parliament, image courtesy of Ash Crow. EU rules designed to keep us safe from cyber-crime while protecting our human rights online should be scrapped after […]
11 December 2013 by sianberry
Darren Johnson comments on the Mayor’s “mismanagement” of the bike hire scheme as costs of running the scheme to the TfL almost double. Image courtesy of Stephen Craven. Darren Johnson AM has reacted to the announcement yesterday evening by Barclays that the bank will not be renewing its sponsorship deal for London’s cycle hire scheme. […]
10 December 2013 by sianberry
London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert welcomes the new measures, but describes it as “stop-gap” and urges for further action to be taken to reduce carbon emissions. Jean Lambert MEP The European Parliament has today agreed measures aimed at tackling the oversupply of permits in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Green MEPs welcomed the decision, […]
9 December 2013 by sianberry
“The Mayor must be judged on delivery” states Darren Johnson as cyclists in London suffer another setback. Farringdon Street (A201) in the City of London, picture courtesy of Tbmurray. TfL’s new draft business plan reveals that the scope of its junction review programme has narrowed and the scheme will now address just 33 ‘high priority’ locations […]
6 December 2013 by sianberry
Baroness Jenny Jones AM deems London lucky to escape this time, with 15% of London at risk of flooding. This includes over 200 critical infrastructures, 10 of which are hospitals. The chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, James Cleverly agreed that the London Resilience Forum should expand beyond their current emergency […]
5 December 2013 by sianberry
Darren Johnson remarks upon the Mayor’s failure to recognise the expense and lack of security of living in private rented housing in London, which has resulted in a 13% rise in homelessness. Darren Johnson calls the Mayor’s aims of halving the number of homeless “distant dreams”. Image courtesy of κύριαsity. Figures published today show that weak […]