Blackheath, Kidbrooke and Eltham stations are set to lose their direct rail services to Victoria from December 2022, according to new documents issued by the Department for Transport today. But Bexleyheath line passengers will be able to take twice as many trains from Lewisham to Victoria, lessening the pain for passengers who complained about the […]
November 2017
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Greenwich Council set to hike parking fees – but ducks extra diesel charges
Greenwich Council is planning to increase car parking charges, with residents in controlled parking zones facing annual charges of up to £100 to leave their cars in the borough’s most in-demand streets. Pay-by-phone charges are also set for an increase, with drivers who park in Greenwich town centre set for fees of £3 per hour. […]
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Call this the home of time? Let’s get Blackheath’s memorial clock fixed
853’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN turns back the clock to revisit one of his best-known campaigns – to fix Greenwich borough’s public timepieces. Public clocks not working. Thought I’d get straight to the point because the Ed’s been complaining upstairs that he’s fed up with me going on more digressions than Holden Caulfield. I tried […]
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Suttons Radio: Lewisham’s new pub on wrong frequency with poverty map
Lewisham town centre’s hardly known for quality pubs – it never seemed to get over the horror of Yates’s, which shut its doors nearly 10 years ago. But Antic, the firm behind quirky boozers across south London, has ridden to the rescue, by opening Suttons Radio in what used to be the Market Tavern (and […]
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Shooters Hill Shot: Ford plans commuter Chariot service to North Greenwich
Car giant Ford is planning to launch an on-demand rush-hour commuter service linking Shooters Hill and Kidbrooke with North Greenwich station in January. The firm’s Chariot offshoot, which runs bus-like minivans in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle and Austin, Texas, is proposing to launch in London, its first non-US city, next year, with six […]
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Meet GoodGym: The loveliest running group on the planet!
If you’re a community group in SE London looking for volunteers, help or simply to spread the word about what you’re doing, 853 can help you get your message out in its new Community Spotlight feature. Here’s SARAH PLACE, the trainer of Greenwich GoodGym, explaining how you can get fit, do good things and make […]
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London Assembly member lambasts shortening of SE London’s cycle superhighway
A leading member of the London Assembly has criticised Transport for London’s shortening of south-east London’s first cycle superhighway, adding the effects of the Silvertown Tunnel have not been properly factored into the plans. If built, Cycle Superhighway 4 (CS4) will run from Tower Bridge Road to Deptford Creek Bridge along Tooley Street, Jamaica Road, […]
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Weekly zone 3 travelcards to hit £40 as SE London’s rail fares rise again
Weekly travelcards covering zone 3 are to hit £40 for the first time next year as the cost of rail travel in south-east London continues to rise. While single bus, Tube and DLR fares have been frozen by mayor Sadiq Khan, the cost of other rail services will increase from January, along with travelcards and […]
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