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Jane Alaszewski
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    May 10, 2024
    Replying to @jdpoc
    At the start of WW2 my grandparents, great grandparents and great great granny arrived in the UK fleeing the Nazi regime by car, boat and on foot. No money, no documents. Just the clothes on their back. A safe haven awaited them. Thank god today’s Tpries weren’t in power then.
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    Jane Alaszewski
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    Nov 29, 2021
    Replying to @robinlustig
    Sorry to hear about your grandmother. My Lithuanian-Polish great great granny Marja Baniewicz disguised a Jewish lawyer as a shepherd on her farm near Kaunus during the war. He survived, emigrated to Israel and sent our family Jaffa oranges every year.
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    Jane Alaszewski
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    Apr 16, 2024
    Replying to @CharlotteCGill and @willnorman
    The 47 and 199 buses do 1.5 mph thanks to this bike lane.
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    Jane Alaszewski
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    Jan 8, 2024
    Replying to @willnorman @TfL and @lb_southwark
    This is the view of the cycle lane from a packed 47 bus. Took 2 hours to do the 3 miles from Surrey Quays to Lewisham.
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    Jane Alaszewski
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    Oct 8, 2023
    Replying to @VincentStops and @willnorman
    Bus journey from Surrey Quays to Lewisham yesterday took 2 hours. It’s a 30 min drive to Bluewater. We don’t have a car. Our reward? 4x longer to a shopping center then the equivalent car journey. @willnorman grinding buses to a halt will NOT reduce car use/improve environment.
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Feb 5, 2022
    321 bus, Lee High Road, Saturday afternoon. @damienegan look how many bus passengers you inconvenience for that select few. Stop your LTN. Open the roads.
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Nov 19, 2022
    I have a disabled child. I fought for 10 years for his SEN education and transport. In the midst of a pandemic closing his school and all support Lewisham council closed its roads without consulting with disabled people, their organisations, schools and SEN transport.
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Mar 13, 2024
    My 13 yr old has a daily 30 mile round trip to his specialist autistic school. SW LTN added 40 minutes to his journey. @MayorofLondon thank you for making @LambethSE suspend this LTN. Don’t let them bring it back 🙏
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    Liveable Streatham Wells
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    Mar 12, 2024
    Morning all, it's us again. What is the plan for dealing with this mess please? @MayorofLondon @willnorman @LabourMarina @clairekholland @RezinaChowdhury
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Nov 15, 2022
    The LTN worsened my son’s asthma. He’s autistic. Over half-term the brilliant asthma nurse taught him to use his asthma meds independently a skill he’ll need for life, after we’re gone. Autism is also associated with air pollution. Why does his life not matter @damienegan
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Jan 16, 2023
    Asthma rates have increased across Lewisham post LTN. @LewishamCouncil @Keir_Starmer @MayorofLondon listen to @EllaRobertaFdn and remove this public health disaster.
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Dec 4, 2022
    Replying to @isthemoonblue @QuinlanQuinlan and 40 others
    Our LTN is as packed with cars as it was before these residents were gifted no-through roads. The traffic has been displaced, to roads like mine. For evaporation to occur people have to stop driving. They haven’t. I’m a non driver. I want less traffic. LTNs don’t achieve this.
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Dec 9, 2023
    Replying to @willnorman and @TfL
    Slow buses terminate early. This isn’t captured in the bus flow data which underreports delays but I suspect you already know this @willnorman
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    Jane Alaszewski
    @JAlaszewski
    Feb 14, 2023
    On a 10k walk today we bumped into @SustransLondon who were out fundraising. As we walked past my son asked me “are those the people who gave me asthma?” (He’s well aware of the connection between your LTN @sustrans and his worsening asthma).
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    Jane Alaszewski
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    Sep 6, 2021
    Replying to @Terry_Patt @carltonreid and 9 others
    LTNs turn short journeys by motor vehicle into longer ones. Unsurprisingly this counterintuitive means of reducing pollution doesn't work. It increases pollution on the alt routes and residential main roads which is why as an environmentalist I oppose LTNs.