‘Public Transport’ Archive

Join Barnet Greens on anti-cuts march on Saturday

A Barnet Green Party delegation will of course be taking part in the national anti-cuts march on Saturday March 26th.Let’s help make it the biggest march in London since the protests against the invasion of Iraq. You are welcome to come with Barnet Greens. Some Barnet Green Party members will meet up at Finchley Central [...]

Meet and greet Green candidates next Saturday

Next Saturday is your final chance to put your questions to local Green Party candidates in a ‘Meet and Greet’ session in East Finchley. Some of Barnet Green Party’s candidates for parliament and for the Barnet Council election will be at our stall outside Budgens on East Finchley High Road from around 10 am to [...]

Greens’ protest kite soars into the empty skies

A protest kite launched by Barnet Green Party was the only authorised craft in the skies above London on Sunday 18th, as Donald Lyven, the party’s candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, attempted to fly the kite to 140 metres, the height of the chimney at an incinerator planned as part of the Brent Cross [...]

Green Party Election Broadcast 2010

Today the Green Party’s Election Broadcast was launched via their Only Green website. By visiting the site voters can not only look at our key policies but take a Policy Matchmaker test to see how close their views match ours. Why not visit the Policy Matchmaker page here. You could have more in common with the [...]

Boris, keep your hands off Tube ticket offices!

Barnet Greens are telling London Mayor Boris Johnson: “Hands off Tube ticket offices”. Three years ago campaigning by  the Green Party helped force Ken Livingstone to scrap plans to shut round 40 London Underground ticket offices, including several in Barnet borough. Now Barnet Greens are ready to wield their placards again to see off reported [...]

Don’t miss BXC deadline, warn Greens

Barnet Green Party is urging local people to write in the next seven days to Communities Secretary John Denham to demand a public inquiry into the the 4.5 billion pounds Brent Cross Cricklewood redevelopment. Objectors have only until March 12th to make their views known to Denham, who will then decide whether to over-rule Barnet [...]

Green Party welcomes new bus route in Colindale

A new bus route serving part of Barnet borough has been announced, to the pleasure of local Green Party members. Route 324 will link Brent Cross Tesco to Stanmore via Hendon, Colindale and Kingsbury every 20 minutes during the day time. The new service will use a stop within the Tesco grounds, providing new links [...]

Meet your Greens – at East Finchley on Saturday

Barnet Green Party has selected East Finchley as its target ward for the borough council elections on May 6th and will officially launch its campaign in the ward this coming Saturday, February 13th. The launch will take place outside Budgen’s supermarket on the High Road. We invite all local people to come along at about [...]

Greens tell Boris: ‘don’t raise bus fares’

The Green Party’s Darren Johnson will be aiming to freeze bus fares when he seeks to amend Mayor Boris Johnson’s draft budget. The £75m that the Mayor is raising from the 12 percent bus fare increase would instead be raised mostly from motorists, with the reinstatement of the £25 emissions charge on gas guzzlers and [...]