Watch your waste week

http://www.nlondon-waste.gov.uk/yourwaste/watch_your_waste_week_2009

19-25 October 2009

Barking Bus Disruption

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/information.asp?time=future&mode=buses&line=all&incident=1045450_TfL

Resurfacing works in Longbridge Road (between Wakering Road and The Catch roundabout) mean that buses will be delayed, diverted, and generally disrupted "Between 20:00 Friday 18 September and 06:00 Saturday 19 September." However this is not the first closure of this stretch of road, and I don't know if it will be the last.

Cycling Academy at Barking College

The B&D council newspaper is adverising this but I can't find anything at the college website http://www.barkingcollege.ac.uk/ or by Google.

Train information at stations and on line

The daily e-mail I receive from TfL told me today that there were severe delays on the Barking & Gospel Oak Line owing to a signal failure. I phoned the recorded announcement and it said that one train was running non stop Barking to S Tottenham owing to an earlier train failure. The live departure board on the web had "no report" for the 17:25 train even at 17:15 and the white board at Harringay Green Lanes simply said "delays". The 17:45 was on time.

What a lot of useless rubbish.

When I got to Barking, I wondered if the fact that only c2c and London Overground trains are announced by loudspeaker, but not Underground trains, is a breach of the Disability Discrimination Act.

New Ticket Machines London Overground

I've noticed the new ticket machine at Harringay Green Lanes. Couldn't see the make, or find anything on Google. Not sure why such new machines (2007) have been replaced (if they have) may just be HGL?

£10 off home delivery

I'm not all that keen on supporting the Tescopoly, but they've got a £10 off offer for new customers of their home delivery service who spend £50 on shopping to be delivered by Sunday 13 September. It may be some people's first foray into the delights of having the shopping brought round.

ecoupon code = XX4GZF

Low Carbon Neghbourhood

http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=23462

Barking Town Centre is one of 10 Low Carbon Zones in London.

"Each of the winning boroughs will be awarded at least £200,000 to pioneer energy –busting measures in their low carbon zones. The Mayor wants to make London a low carbon city, boosting ‘green collar’ jobs and helping to lower energy bills by becoming more energy efficient. These zones will showcase exactly how London can become a low carbon city by using a wide range of measures to help people cut carbon and by reducing the emissions of some of London's older buildings, which have generally been more difficult to make energy efficient."