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Hackney quietly takes luxury limo off the road after this site’s campaign against council excess

01/09/202002/21/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT 1

• UPDATE JANUARY 2021: Loving Dalston’s revelations about the Hackney limo benefit for a lucky councillor have had a result: Hackney has ended  the costly

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Olympic©DA12: Mo Farah and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the City of London at the start of the public celebration 10Sep12 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event

04/15/201904/21/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, TRANSPORT

  HURRAH, CYCLING IS TO BE BOOSTED by the people delivering the Olympics legacy to us northeast Londoners. Proposals to narrow Westfield Avenueand Montfichet Road

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CityShoreditch©DA: East London Line ("hipster line") bypasses City (& Shard in S Lon) as it goes N to Dalston Junction 26 July 2013 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney’s Hipster line leaves London muggers behind as it extends weekend night services

02/24/201802/24/2018 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, TRANSPORT

THE EXTENDED all-night weekend service on the slick railway that links Dalston with parts north and south has been so popular with millennials it

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Docklands commuters get a station back — and soon it will be bigger and better, says TfL

01/04/201801/05/2018 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT

CUSTOM HOUSE DLR station is to reopen, almost a year since it closed for work to modernise it and link it better to a

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Traffic jam in Llwyngwril, a Welsh hillside village, July 2015: © david.altheer@gmail.com

Police say they’re still not going to come down heavy on drivers who break the 20mph limit in Hackney

03/02/201704/15/2018 COUNCIL, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, TRANSPORT

* Update 070317: Since this story was published, Loving Dalston has been told of a local motorist being given a penalty for allegedly exceeding the

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PoliceLb: Dalston Eastern Curve garden stabbing scene 140714 London E8 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Idling cops in Hackney: Switch off that engine, says the Met, as the force aims to go green

02/10/201702/15/2017 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT

IDLING MOTOR VEHICLES are causing thousands of deaths and local police are taking action. The force told Loving Dalston: “Hackney police vehicles would not be

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DIANE ABBOTT , the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, campaigning © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

The tragedy of Diane Abbott: mystery illness keeps her from supporting either her leader or her voters

02/02/201706/14/2017 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, TRANSPORT

UPDATE 140617: Diane Abbott reveals that type 2 diabetes has been badly affecting her performance in media interviews. She says she has had “a great memory

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Thomas Heatherwick-designed hop-on, hop-off Routemaster-successor bus Feb 2012 © david.altheer[ at ] gmail.com

Hop-on, hop-off bus concept goes back to the depot as Routemaster doors lose their point

08/22/201608/23/2016 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT

THE HOP-ON, HOP-OFF bus concept was a boon to Hackneyites and other users of the 38 bus travelling the route to Islington, the West

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Abellio train on the Greater Anglia route takes off from Hackney Downs London E8 110816 © david.altheer at gmail.com

The contract now starting at Liverpool St has been re-awarded. To Holland’s little-loved Abellio

08/11/201608/11/2016 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT

THE POPULAR Liverpool Street to Stansted airport rail route is to continue to be run by the most-unpopular train operator, Abellio. More passenger complaints have

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LeaBridgeStation: off Lea Bridge Rd Walthamstow London E10 050716 © DavidAltheer[at]gmail.com

A station to make Hackneyites chuff-chuffed

07/16/201603/07/2019 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT

THIS IS the station that perished 31 years ago for lack of public interest and this year reopened after revived interest. You won’t find

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