SuedeAdidas said:

Leeds_Addick said:

O-Randy-Hunt said:

Leeds_Addick said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

CaptainRobbo said:

cantersaddick said:

CaptainRobbo said:

jose said:

I have credit on the Dartford charge just in case I find myself using that crossing.
I wish there was a single simplified system to cover it all, ULEZ, congestion, and river crossings. As well as the totally incomprehensible nationwide car parking systems, and for any fines.
If there were such a system I would scrape together something like £50 credit to avoid stress when interacting with those systems.
In the face of all this nerd generated malarkey I wish we could get back to simple and straightforward cash.
Sadiq Khant has done a good job as Mayor, he has been elected three times. I live around the corner from the late Ella Adoo Kissi Debra hard by the South Circular, and the death of the poor girl has led to cleaner air round my way thanks to the action of Khan and his team.

Sometimes you wish you could LOL a post multiple times. 
Vladimir Putin keeps getting elected too.

Am no fan of Khan and I dont agree that getting electected 3 times is necessarily a good measure of whether someone has done a good job.

But are you genuinely suggesting Khan has rigged elections in the same way Putin has? 

Not in the slightest,  was just making a point that you don't have to be good at your job to keep it.
Probably says more about the apathy of voters, that he is still in power and also a slur on the other political parties for not running credible alternatives against him at election time.

Or perhaps people think he’s done a good job and worth re electing. 

Since he was elected, my experience of living and working in London has improved significantly

Out of interest, what's changed. Clean air?

If I were to pick 3 things:

In my experience it's safer - I was robbed on the street 5 times between 2006 and 2012 and I've never felt as unsafe since I moved back in 2017

Public transport is better. The SL4, Elizabeth line and night tube make life much easier.

Cycling infrastructure is amazing and I can pretty much get anywhere I need to without cycling alongside cars.

Could be others as well but I generally don't have much to complain about. It's an amazing city to live in.

What area(s) were you robbed in mate?
It’s mad how it works out. I’m 56, have lived in London all my life and only personally know one person who has ever been mugged. 

Born and raised in Deptford, lived there for 25 years, lived in West Croydon for 14 years. Both abject, utter shitholes. Never mugged, only know of 2 people who were. Know more people who've been mugged in Bolton, for fucks sake 🤣 

SuedeAdidas said:

Leeds_Addick said:

O-Randy-Hunt said:

Leeds_Addick said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

CaptainRobbo said:

cantersaddick said:

CaptainRobbo said:

jose said:

I have credit on the Dartford charge just in case I find myself using that crossing.
I wish there was a single simplified system to cover it all, ULEZ, congestion, and river crossings. As well as the totally incomprehensible nationwide car parking systems, and for any fines.
If there were such a system I would scrape together something like £50 credit to avoid stress when interacting with those systems.
In the face of all this nerd generated malarkey I wish we could get back to simple and straightforward cash.
Sadiq Khant has done a good job as Mayor, he has been elected three times. I live around the corner from the late Ella Adoo Kissi Debra hard by the South Circular, and the death of the poor girl has led to cleaner air round my way thanks to the action of Khan and his team.

Sometimes you wish you could LOL a post multiple times. 
Vladimir Putin keeps getting elected too.

Am no fan of Khan and I dont agree that getting electected 3 times is necessarily a good measure of whether someone has done a good job.

But are you genuinely suggesting Khan has rigged elections in the same way Putin has? 

Not in the slightest,  was just making a point that you don't have to be good at your job to keep it.
Probably says more about the apathy of voters, that he is still in power and also a slur on the other political parties for not running credible alternatives against him at election time.

Or perhaps people think he’s done a good job and worth re electing. 

Since he was elected, my experience of living and working in London has improved significantly

Out of interest, what's changed. Clean air?

If I were to pick 3 things:

In my experience it's safer - I was robbed on the street 5 times between 2006 and 2012 and I've never felt as unsafe since I moved back in 2017

Public transport is better. The SL4, Elizabeth line and night tube make life much easier.

Cycling infrastructure is amazing and I can pretty much get anywhere I need to without cycling alongside cars.

Could be others as well but I generally don't have much to complain about. It's an amazing city to live in.

What area(s) were you robbed in mate?
It’s mad how it works out. I’m 56, have lived in London all my life and only personally know one person who has ever been mugged. 

Across Charlton, Lee and Kidbrooke. I imagine I was pretty unlucky but I do feel like SE London generally has got safer over the past 10 years or so.

Silvertown Tunnel cuts delays in first year, says TfL

TfL's 12-month monitoring report said journey times had fallen significantly around the Blackwall Tunnel, with northbound journeys between Sun in the Sands and the tunnel being, on average, 58% quicker during the morning peak and 47% quicker in the evening peak compared with 2024/25.

The report also found:

TfL said more than 11% of all tunnel trips were now made by bus, a 290% increase on levels before the tunnel opened, with more than 10,000 journeys crossing the Thames each day on routes 108, 129 and SL4.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8rggryjpo

They conveniently leave off the fact that the numbers using the two tunnels have, in my estimation anyway, reduced. As others have said, they could have just introduced the toll without spending millions on the Silvertown tunnel and ended up with the same 'improvements', but they're never going to admit to that.

I know longer live in london but I think one of the reasons london may be safer in terms of muggings etc is the evolution of technology. People don't really carry cash as much these days and phones are better protected than before.

clive said:

The cost of driving through the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels will increase from Monday 21 September, Transport for London (TfL) says.

Peak charges for cars and small vans travelling northbound between 06:00-10:00 and southbound between 16:00-19:00 on weekdays will rise by 5% from £4 to £4.20. Off-peak charges will increase by 5p to £1.55.

Heavy goods vehicles will see charges increase by 5% each way to £5.25 (off-peak) and £10.50 at peak times. Charges are payable seven days a week for journeys made between 06:00 and 22:00.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4dre9z365o

Funny how they express the increase to the peak time charge by a % (5) but the off peak by a monetary value (5p). 

The cynic in me suggests they think some people will just see the numbers being the same & think no more about it. But we all know that a 5% increase to the off-peak charge is 7.5p.....not 5p. 

So, we are shafted YET AGAIN.

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cantersaddick said:

I understand why the charge was introduced and I'm fine with the peak/off-peak and Northbound/Southbound differences. 

Don't understand the need for the price increase so soon after introduction. Give it a full year at least right?

No. TFL need all the help they can to help fund your ‘grossly underpaid’ Tube  drivers 😉😀😆

But to be serious it’s simply because they can without any negative impact to income streams. 

cantersaddick said:

valleynick66 said:

cantersaddick said:

I understand why the charge was introduced and I'm fine with the peak/off-peak and Northbound/Southbound differences. 

Don't understand the need for the price increase so soon after introduction. Give it a full year at least right?

No. TFL need all the help they can to help fund your ‘grossly underpaid’ Tube  drivers 😉😀😆

But to be serious it’s simply because they can without any negative impact to income streams. 

Those that have adapted to paying for this route likely won’t change habits with this level of absolute monetary change. It doesn’t push people beyond a limit - yet. That’s my guess on their financial modelling. 

But their books are relatively healthy (operating surplus despite debt for infrastucture investment). I guess my point is why now? I always expected annual rises and adjustments but either start of the financial year like with public transport or annually from its start date. Just finding it a little odd timing if nothing else.

Maybe the ‘real time’ finances and forecasts aren’t as healthy as the ‘backward looking’ ones and it just creates a bit of a buffer. 

cantersaddick said:

valleynick66 said:

cantersaddick said:

I understand why the charge was introduced and I'm fine with the peak/off-peak and Northbound/Southbound differences. 

Don't understand the need for the price increase so soon after introduction. Give it a full year at least right?

No. TFL need all the help they can to help fund your ‘grossly underpaid’ Tube  drivers 😉😀😆

But to be serious it’s simply because they can without any negative impact to income streams. 

Those that have adapted to paying for this route likely won’t change habits with this level of absolute monetary change. It doesn’t push people beyond a limit - yet. That’s my guess on their financial modelling. 

But their books are relatively healthy (operating surplus despite debt for infrastucture investment). I guess my point is why now? I always expected annual rises and adjustments but either start of the financial year like with public transport or annually from its start date. Just finding it a little odd timing if nothing else.

Boris signed off on annual March and September increases. You know what a great negotiator (and indeed human) that guy was…

I set up a TFL London Road User auto pay yesterday, payable by direct debit (for the Blackwall Tunnel).
I think it said you get a monthly statement, is that correct, do you get a notification etc?
Sorry to be lazy, but was trying to log in for nearly 24 hours and it was telling me my password was wrong (it wasn't).

CaptainRobbo said:

fenlandaddick said:

Used to be free....

So did getting air for your tyres and water for your screenwash at petrol garages. 

That’s inflation for you

jose said:

Very well done our three times elected Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro

My focus on this is from a public health and health economics as thats my professional area of interest. 

For me this is huge. Beyond the obvious healthier children is a clear and obvious societal good. There are just so many benefits. 

This is tens of thousands of GP appointments available for other needs with knock on effects on wait times and access to GP. Its thousands of referral and treatment slots in the NHS which are available for others and waiting lists for treatments reducing. 

Its millions fewer sick days taken from school and work across their lifetime leading to a more productive and healthy workforce. 

Its whole liferimes of NHS support avoided. 

These sort of public health interventions really are huge wins for every part of society. 

Covered End said:

I set up a TFL London Road User auto pay yesterday, payable by direct debit (for the Blackwall Tunnel).
I think it said you get a monthly statement, is that correct, do you get a notification etc?
Sorry to be lazy, but was trying to log in for nearly 24 hours and it was telling me my password was wrong (it wasn't).

Your password was probably correct, but if you ise the app I doesn't work. I found this out when I tried to add my new car in the app. Eventually got through to someone on the phone who told me not to use the app but to log in on the website (which worked).

Funny though how I can open the app and pay a fine without the need to log in...