The new Talk London

Two comments

1. The Veolia rubbish guys are great but the rubbish truck should follow the recycle truck so refused recycling bags get picked up and are not left on the street until next collection

2. People who drive cabs, vans and lorries for a living around London seem automatically to turn on their engines before they read their notes or call their offices or loved ones, so leaving the engine running and polluting the air we breathe unnecessarily before they leave. Also when they arrive. We need more small item advertising identifying this as a problem and suggesting they turn off their engines when they are not moving to help us all breathe cleaner air; and turning them on only when they are ready to move. Good clean air impact.

I don’t care for this site. I have now logged in 3 times and when I try to make a comment or agree with another it asks me to login, again and now that I have I have been moved away from the comments I was about to agree with. Total rubbish.
I was about to agree with the people who were complaining about the enforced changes in our streets with the LTN’s. We have essentially been locked out of our home unless I make a 15 minute round London trip to get back. I wrote several times to Highways and they have never bothered to respond. These LTN’s decrease traffic flow and therefore increase pollution. I cannot now cross the main roads with ease but had no problem before. I am too old to start cycling. Not happy at all

I added a comment a few minutes ago and the total increased from 45 to 46 but my comment does not appear to have been included. Where has my comment gone?

I think I have now read all the other comments. I have no objections to the pink colour but if the majority preferred green I would not mind. I found my old password with very little difficulty, and it still works. The trick I use to find my passwords is to make a note of them in a notebook which is in my "office" but well hidden so that anyone who steals my laptop is very unlikely to find my notebook of passwords. I enjoy being consulted. All people should be consulted about changes which affect them: "No decision about me without me".

Last comment: I am very glad that the print of your community platform is large enough for me to read it without using a magnifying glass. I am 78 years old and my eyesight is not very good.

1- before implementing any plan, residents must be consulted, full assessment for impact published and any trials set up with clearly agreed and defined KPIs. UNLIKE what has been done with LTNs, a shamefully badly planned schemed, imposed for so called environmental reasons and now used to raise insane amounts of money in fines whilst wreaking the lives of so many for a wide range of reasons and massively increasing pollution on busy roads and living residential roads ghostly empty, particularly at night.
2- stop obsessing about cycling, it’s not an option for most (again, for a broad range of reasons). Invest in better, more affordable, electric public transport instead.
3- London needs to roll out more electric charging points to encourage people to buy electric vehicle if they need one.

Not sure it's a good idea - provides for a bunch of self-selecting busy-bodies disproportionate influence in shaping policy, but then again that's true of most of the political process.

Imposing change on people should be done with their consent, with their being properly informed as to what's been proposed, and as part of that process, invited to comment. It should be a consideration by those who seek to change things that some people like things the way they already are, and that those who are happy with the status quo have just as profound and valid a stake in things as those who want change.

I have allotments near my home, for instance. I don't want to wake up one day and discover that some property developers are building flats over them.

Regards to this website: it shows only couple of posts under your whole paragraphs on the top. Clicking to next page than scrolling down through the same paragraph is not user friendly. Could we not scroll down through posts like on Facebook / instagram so there would be no need to load each page after 2 or 3 comments? I gave up after 3rd load. So I only saw few comments. Thanks for putting this together and letting us to have a say.

I've been getting a lot of email notifications saying people have commented on my comment but even I click the link it is not easy to find the comment and sometimes I cannot reply to the comment when I've found it! Can this be changed to make it more user friendly?

If the system when revised permits simple suggestions, such as how to minimise the bunching of buses on similar routes, it could help improve life for everyone in London at no extra cost. That could be a first modest step towards taking more account of what London needs. If that type of suggestion were ignored it would not auger well for more ambitious ideas via Talk London

I'm keen to contribute a communities idea, but challenged by having to click through so many pages to see what is there, whether I could duplicate, what I might add, then how I might find my idea again. Is it possible to have a list with one line summaries?

Thank you Talk London for your prompt reply. In the prior version, one could see more contributions on one page, making navigation quicker and easier. Given budget pressures on the GLA, I wonder why re-doing this website was deemed a priority...

I thought this would provide an opportunity to put forward ideas on how to improve life in London as was indicated by the email I responded to. However this is obviously a highly controlled marketing exercise providing only a limited chance to put forward any ideas. So far very disappointed!

Why not have an option within 'profile' where you can see all your own contributions, together with responses? I get an email telling me someone responded but that takes me to the website, where I have to search for the responses and can't find them...