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London Phone Apps & an Electric Car

11 July 2012 | Transport

◄ I’ve been getting around London with three useful smartphone apps. When I need a car in London I go to Zipcar and their phone app shows me where the cars are (the nearest one is about 100 metres from where I live in London) and altogether there are 1700 of them scat...

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Boris Biking One Year Later

17 July 2011 | Transport

I’ve been a Boris Bike fan since soon after it launched in London on 30 July 2010. Officially it’s the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, but we Boris Bikers like to name it after London’s colourful mayor Boris Johnson. I was in London back when the scheme launched and did a...

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Cars & Bikes

20 December 2010 | Transport

Time for my end of year sum up, on 19 December I looked at Museums & Art Galleries. Today it's cars and bicycles. No change in the cars Maureen and I own in Australia – a Lotus Europa, a Mini Cooper S, a Toyota Prius. Or in the UK – no car at all. ▲ Techie in...

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