Tag: Acton Street
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We got 20!
All roads of Kings Cross are now restricted to 20 Miles. This is a major win for the community after decades of campaigning. For once we just like to say thank you!
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TFL and Sadiq Khan’s continued broken promises on Kings Cross Gyratory
A promise to deliver a 20 miles speed reduction for the Kings Cross Gyratory has been broken again. TFL had previously promised to introduce the speed reduction by October 2022. After breaking this promise the area was promised implementation by February 2023, but nothing happened yet again. Background: Kings Cross has fought for over three…
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You choose: Less travel & waiting time or more modern & safer buses & bus stops?
In recent days survey cards (small cards with blue writing and the Transport for London Sign on it) have arrived in the letterboxes of the area around WC1X, commissioned by Transport for London (TFL) which carry responsibility for the bus network. The survey asks you to state your preferences on what looks like a possible…
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Wheelie Bins delivered! Hopes for some improvement on waste at Kings Cross.
Addresses in Swinton Street, Acton Street and Swinton Place at Kings Cross WC1X have finally received wheelie bins from Camden council. This looks like a small ordinary and thing to most areas, but at King’s Cross is in fact a major development that took the best of some five years or more in the making.…
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Waste Solutions to be trialed on Acton Street, Swinton Street & Swinton Place
New Trial: Wednesday and Saturday collections retried and bins rolled out.
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Tell TFL you care about them shelving transformative 2016 plans for Kings Cross
In 2016 Kings Cross agreed transformative plans of Kings Cross Roads. TFL shelved the plans now. Help us to bring back the vision. Here is a petition.
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Acton Street is all flowers again!
At the corner of Acton Street / Swinton place members of the neighbourhood put up a flower bed again. Such a flower-bed existed already in 2015, but TFL opposed the fencing with then bricks. The plants are the community’s plants, and if you have a spare flower or plant to put in, please go ahead.…
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Meet Camden’s Waste Collection Manager on Mo 14.9.2020
Camden’s Senior Area Monitoring Officer Manager Fraser Valdez and the Manager of the Collection Service will be on Acton Street on Monday 14th of September 2020 at 11.00 am to learn more about the waste in the area. To meet them and share your experiences simply come to Acton Street at that time.
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Car Speeds in Acton Street, Swinton Street, Kings Cross Road and the rest of the gyratory
Daniel from Acton Street has asked councillors and TfL to look into the question of the outstanding changes, in order to calm and humanize streets affected by the decades old gyratory system. A consultation in 2016 suggested several changes, but so far, they were not implemented, with the argument that it could not be done…
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