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What you believe is true, despite the click-bait article's allusions. Proof? Here's the Premier Support Agreement that provides support through 2019.

https://www.london.gov.uk/site...

Be confident in yourself and be confident in your future.

Just try not to be arrogant or entitled.

All of the above are hard to do all the time (unless you're so insecure you're incapable of being arrogant or so arrogant that you're incapable of harbouring doubts about yourself) so forgive others who get it wrong some of the time - and hope that they forgive you.

And if you want to get laid, find something cheap to do that you enjoy doing and that has people of the right sex there that you can talk to and don't hurry things.

I would guess that volunteer groups tend to have a reasonably equal gender balance and if you're doing something that you believe in then you're likely to meet people you can connect with.

Most of my time is already committed (not volunteer work) but if it weren't I'd probably start somewhere like here:
https://volunteerteam.london.g...

Probably something similar in your area of the world.

> That just isn't how it works. However, you probably should make your MP aware of what is wrong

https://www.writetothem.com/

> and Boris too

https://www.london.gov.uk/cont... (includes an email address)

You can also contact the Lord Mayor (City of London) spokesmen.
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk...

> It can't be much harder than posting to Slashdot can it?

Not much harder but you have to sacrifice anonymity and supply a UK postal address.

> Obviously I didn't read the article. And am just rambling.

Best way to do it.

The traffic lights in London can be controlled centrally for 24/7. If there is a problem somewhere they can change timings on lights etc. watch this if you can get access to it from where you are.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfr... or read this http://www.london.gov.uk/prior...

That's exactly what I'd like to see.

The standard limits here are 40mph (65km/h) on large town roads and 30mph (50km/h) limit on the rest. Around schools there's sometimes a 20mph (30km/h) limit, and a few local councils have put 20mph limits on residential areas. I'd like to see those limits reduced to 50km/h, 30km/h and maybe 20km/h outside schools during school hours (mostly because far too many kids are still taken to school by car, and end up crossing roads between lots of parked cars^H^H^H SUVs).
You'll notice those are in km/h. When Ireland changed all their road signs to metric, they took the chance to reevaluate all the limits at the same time. I think Britain should do the same.

The mayor of London was asking for comments on his transport not-yet-a-policy, and I wrote suggesting these changes (and others). I haven't had a reply yet, if I don't get one by the end of the week I'll assume emails are ignored and send a dead-tree version.

"one as backup for when clouds make the shitty solar power plants useless."

yah solar is so Dependant on absolutely clear skies, that's why they installed one in the roof of London City Hall.

http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/city_hall/solar-power/index.jsp

That's the sort of response you are seeing.

London and londoners are well-accustomed to the threat of terrorism, people who live here refuse to let it invade or dictate their lives, hence why every bus I saw on the way home was packed and why a bus driver interviewed on the radio will be back in his seat tomorrow morning.

Ken Livingstone, the Mayor or London, released an excellent statement this morning which, in my opinion, well articulated the feeling in Britain and in London. Londoners have never lived in fear of terrorism, if they did, nobody would ever use the tube. This will do nothing, if the tube were open tomorrow morning, I'd take it to work and I know hundreds who would do the same.

I remember Ken Livingstone Socialist and current mayor of London, doing a review of SimCity a few years ago... he pointed out that it deliberately reinforces a particular model of politics, and how people react to tax and public spending.

It's a comment that really stuck with me because I'd played SimCity and never considered such things -- I just assumed it was an accurate model of reality, not that it had its own biases.

For those who don't recognise the paraphrased quote used as a .signature in that posting, it's originally a quote by the well known left-leaning (or should that be horizontal?) British politician Ken Livingston who said about the effectiveness of Democracy:

"If voting changed anything they'd abolish it"

He later reused that quote for a book. Ironically he's now the elected Lord Mayor of London, having stood as an independant and defeated the Labour parties preferred candidate.

You can read a short biography on Ken Livingston at the website of the Greater London Authority.

Chris, a taffie down under..

For those who don't recognise the paraphrased quote used as a .signature in that posting, it's originally a quote by the well known left-leaning (or should that be horizontal?) British politician Ken Livingston who said about the effectiveness of Democracy:

"If voting changed anything they'd abolish it"

He later reused that quote for a book. Ironically he's now the elected Lord Mayor of London, having stood as an independant and defeated the Labour parties preferred candidate.

You can read a short biography on Ken Livingston at the website of the Greater London Authority.

Chris, a taffie down under..

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned (or maybe I missed it) that drivers of alternative fuel vehicles are exempt from the charge.

It's not only the amount of traffic on the roads in central London that's the problem, it's also the level of pollution. So hopefully this initiative will encourage the use of less polluting vehicles.

Pollution and congestion has been a problem for years in central London, and even if you can't stand Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, you have to admire him for actually doing something about it, rather than moan about it like other politicians.

As far as I understand it, this plan is NOT the work of the UK Government, instead this highly controversial scheme has been put forward by the Mayor of London.

Read about this Congestion Charging scheme here.
In fact, there is a challenge to this scheme being mounted in the High Court today (Monday).

The reason there are so many cameras in London, is because of all the terrorists who have kept trying to blow bits of it up over the years. Terrorists, largely funded by US Citizens, who have in the past come close to destroying parts of London's financial centre.

Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...

As far as I understand it, this plan is NOT the work of the UK Government, instead this highly controversial scheme has been put forward by the Mayor of London.

Read about this Congestion Charging scheme here.
In fact, there is a challenge to this scheme being mounted in the High Court today (Monday).

The reason there are so many cameras in London, is because of all the terrorists who have kept trying to blow bits of it up over the years. Terrorists, largely funded by US Citizens, who have in the past come close to destroying parts of London's financial centre.

Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...