James Scantlebury

Planning Policy at @newhamlondon. Account on hiatus, find me on Bluesky

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Well that’s lots of people followed on Bluesky.
@ me if I missed you, it was a rushed effort!

Anyway, for now twitter - see you later.

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@paulclements It’s abysmal! Every other borough can manage to put numbers online…

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@AndyBTravels London already has incredibly low fare evasion by international standards - so probably wouldn’t make much difference for the vast cost of replacing thousands of gates.

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@DoubleEph @mattyglesias Not just safer, extra capacity too - and it’s easier to move through the train to find more standing room or a seat.
Also, the first Tubes to have AC!

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@GarethDennis @TheMurkyDepths These are (allegedly) for City / Canary Wharf financial transactions - there’s no sites left in Tower Hamlets. There’s another one by Canning Town.
Hard for us to push back as its industrial land - but we did get substantial public benefit, such as waste heat for heating homes

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@s8mb Can go both ways too - Singapore offer discounts if you “touch out” in the CBD before the peak period.
The limitation is the Oyster system (now 20+ years old) and it’s being replaced - contract has been awarded iirc

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@JRUrbaneNetwork Does CRH use extra trains for this level of service, or is every available train pressed into service (i.e. no heavy maintenance during this period)?

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@beyonddc Utah, “French Alps” and (highly likely to be) Switzerland as the next winter hosts… you’re basically right!

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@s8mb Riding at the front of the DLR … you might have to fight the big kids / adults for the front seat 😂

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@boys_nicholas Because London doesn’t have the levels of dedicated revenue sources that other major world cities have - “versement transport” in Paris, for example

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@AntBreach Also, having lived in tiny flats… NPSS are a good idea (as are the London Plan outdoor space requirements). Otherwise we’ll get a miserable race to the bottom as happened when standards like Parker Morris was abolished …

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@AntBreach That’s not what our evidence shows RE: overheating…
Simpler building forms (i.e. less corners) also make it much easier to achieve net zero building standards - as we and London boroughs are pushing for (and we show it’s achievable cost wise!)

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@humantransit Excellent thread on this by garius on the butterfly platform… https://t.co/xgIy2mLGIl

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@RM_Transit Congrats!!

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@2cheee OH I thought you were literally reading the same section at once. I withdraw my previous comment 😂

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@2cheee What?! Waiting until the other person was done until you turn the page?

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@weather_forkast not called yet, but looks like it

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@RoyalDocksRob @TheMurkyDepths In the long term, plans for DLR up the Roding corridor towards Barking and Ilford…

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@freddie_poser And here’s the completions - again, this data will be updated later this summer. Hoping that Newham will get 100% of our London Plan target….
https://t.co/TxktpMVTDJ

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@freddie_poser I’m not sure where Molior get their data from. Here’s the GLA residential starts dashboard - check back in August when we’ve all collected the data! https://t.co/Pmd5Gb2Vig