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Friday. If successful it will be extended TfL services in 2017/18 including Tube, TfL has since retrofitted opening ‘Boris Buses’ cost to all New Routemaster buses in future. Overground and other rail services. windows, at a cost of £2 million. Boris Buses make up 11 percent The Prime Minister’s buses Labour’s City Hall transport 3.6 million a of the bus network, with 1,000 of the previously faced criticism when the lack spokesperson, Florence Eshalomi, said 9,000-strong bus fleet now his design. of air-conditioning or opening windows fare evasion on the Routemaster added year through fare But they caused a disproportionate subjected passengers to sweltering to problems created by the former Mayor’s buses. evasion She said: “You had the new Prime By LDRS Reporter Jessie Minister when he was Mayor of London Matthewson prevaricating about bringing back old- style buses, but he didn’t want to clamp down on evasion, and now we have a problem.” She added: “This is another layer of Davidson Andrew © Photograph are evasion on ‘Boris Buses’ cost problems that we’ve been lumbered with Transport for London (TfL) £3.6 by Boris Johnson, it’s just another thing million last year, according to adding to the headache. It’s one thing analysis by the transport network. after another.” F Liberal Democrat assembly member The rate of fare evasion on New Routemaster buses is more than twice as Caroline Pidgeon said TfL was right high as the bus network as a whole. to tackle fare evasion, but single-door Critics of the new Prime Minister say entry “undermines the very point” of the the problem only adds to the “headache” Routemaster design. caused by his fixation on nostalgic bus She said: “Fare evasion must be design. tackled, but instead of the vast majority Mr Johnson’s Routemasters date from of honest passengers being penalised his time as London Mayor – modelled with slower and more inconvenient on traditional London buses, they allow journeys I would like to have seen passengers to tap in at any of three TfL consider stronger penalties for entrances. fare evasion and greater use of revenue But TfL is now trialling single-door protection officers.” entry, which will see customers tap in at A TfL spokesperson confirmed the the front door only, as on other buses. changes to the route 8 bus, and said The new system will start on the wheelchair users would still be able to route 8 and N8 service from Bow enter through the centre doors. extremely rare, and guards don’t even carry protective pepper sprays. Incarceration & Norwegian authorities reject the Rehabilitation. punitive approach, claiming that the removal of freedom is punishment © Max Pixels Photograph The UK versus Norway enough. Rather, they aim to rehabilitate By Alia Butlin prisoners and allow them to repair any damage their actions may have caused. Inmates are taught coping mechanisms for real life scenarios and are given the right to vote and be educated, mirroring a life outside of prison. While Norway’s “humane” system of ith the increasingly high incarceration clearly works, the question levels of violence and remains of how it can be implemented in overcrowding in Britain’s England. While the price of running a prisons,W is it time to find an alternative prison in Norway is £84,000 per inmate solution to crime? A look at the per year according to the New York Norwegian prison system suggests Times, it is seen as cost effective as far that with a focus on rehabilitation, fewer people enter the system in the first and ‘restorative justice’, prisoners can place, and far fewer people reoffend. The adapt to be model citizens, but with a Office for National Statistics claims that meagre £23,000 spent per prisoner each for every 100,000 people in England, year in England, is real change a likely 139 are in jail, which is exceptionally prospect? sexual assaults have more than tripled gardens each prison has to offer. Every high compared to Norway’s 63 in As of July 12th 2019, The Ministry since 2012. As a result of this, inmates prison has a functioning school, with 100,000. However, the problem of of Justice confirms that there are 82,962 are not adequately prepared for life inmates being offered classes in both mass incarceration is not just localised people incarcerated across England, with outside, which no doubt contributes to academic and vocational courses. There to England. It is a crucial issue around 58% of these people living in conditions the alarming 48% recidivism rate. are also several activities such as tennis, the world, as 45% of all countries have described as ‘overcrowded’. This affects Contrastingly, in Norway the farming and cooking for the inmates to a prison population rate of above 150 not only the living conditions of recidivism rate is just 20%, which keep themselves occupied with. per 100,000. With around 10 million prisoners, but also reduces the amount officials claim to be due to their The prisons are a safe environment people in prison worldwide, if more of resources and activities available to ‘humane’ approach to incarceration. for rehabilitation, which means that the countries implemented a system similar them. Furthermore an inquiry by the Described by some as “Prison Utopia”, guards and prisoners are left with a lot of to Norway’s, could we see a decrease in Prison Reform Trust found that there inmates are settled into dorm-style time to interact. Inmates are encouraged the number of prisoners, and a higher were 33,801 recorded physical attacks private rooms with en-suite bathrooms, to settle any arguments through success rate for those moving on from amongst inmates in 2018, and that and are free to enjoy the nature and mediation; as a result physical fights are incarceration? 4 August 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk News Walking Westminster & cycling Council begins improvements ‘homelessness in West London consultation’ TfL has unveiled plans Westminster residents are being asked their views on a formal strategy to for walking and cycling prevent and tackle homelessness, as part improvements in West of a new consultation by Westminster City Council. London following a As part of its ten point plan, the consultation on ways to council wants to continue its Early Intervention Trailblazer Service, which people’s lives. You can read the council’s draft improve two locations at Kew last year identified and reached out to “Local communities can have a role Homelessness Strategy at and share your Bridge and Chiswick. 220 at risk Westminster residents, 99 to play and may help spot the signs views https://www.westminster.gov.uk/ percent of whom did not go on to be someone is at risk of homeless and housing-strategies. The consultation The plan would see areas between homeless. refer them to us early enough to get the closes on Wednesday 11 September Brentford and Kensington Olympia This service helps spot the early support they need.” 2019. connected by a safer walking and cycling signs someone is about to become route. Construction is expected to begin homeless and provides support and later in 2019.