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Re the rowing update picture, judging by the blades (oars) in the foreground, that's a crew from Globe Rowing Club about to go out in a four.

Regards
As for 'activating the public realm', I read 'activating the piazzas' in Westminster Council's pdf on the Oxford Circus proposals. Being nonplussed I knew I had been bolx-ed and reached for my bingo card to circle this gem.
If it helps, I am reliably informed that the dangleway has gone viral on social media platform TikTok which might explain a higher than usual influx of visitors over half term.
You’re joking, right? World’s Gate Way is the least awful of the three. At least it sounds like it could be a traditional street name. You can imagine it’s maybe named after an old pub or something. That’s more than can you can say about the other two!
In view of recent electoral surprises in Hartlepool and Chesham, I would suggest that the middle one is strangely apt for an authority's base that's reliant on the electorate.

People Sway !
re. City Hall road names - how sickenly pretentious, but fairly typical of todays all-show and no sustance culture. These are public servants and they should show more pragmatism - "City Hall Road" would be perfectly acceptable and the mayor who adopted that would indicate they mean business.
The post code is suspiciously pretentious. I bet that was not the post code when Tidal Basin mail sorting office existed 50m away.
What a diabolical trio of names. They read like something from a comedy like W1A (the BBC send-up) or the 2012 Olympic Games one. Hilarious but sad. As for that ghastly Expo place - I was stuck there once and had to trudge outside to find a well-deserved drink.
If Kamal Chunchie is deemed worthy of having a road named after him, and I'm not doubting that he is, then perhaps they should just name a road after him rather than entering him into a competition for this specific road.
I hope that naming after on our illustrious former Mayors was on the longest. Boris Boulevard has a certain ring to it.
There’s some interesting suggestions in the Long list. ‘New Way’ and ‘Black Lives Matter Sqaure’ bring too highlights.

Royal Docks Square is my favourite of the long list. Stevedores square is good too.
This runty little service road is no Boulevard.
Would be quite fitting for our runty PM who is incidentally is definitely not the 5ft 9 height that is widely quoted on the internet.
Should it be people's or peoples'?
In my opinion road names should only consist of a single word in front of 'way', 'road' ,etc. Keep it short but also if named after a person it would probably not need changing if the individual goes out of fashion.

dg writes: Newham’s guidance says no more than two.
One bonus of People’s Way or World’s Gate Way winning will be the opportunity for a blog post on the number of times the apostrophes are forgotten or incorrectly placed after the S on letters, brochures and at the foot of emails from City Hall. Gate Way will become Gateway too.
All abysmal. City Hall Road or Way would suffice perfectly well!

Anyone thinking of diverting the public away from a waterside direct route so they can add a few more square meters of boxy blandness can blooming well bog off too!
It reads as if the long and short lists haven't been fed back to the workshoppers before the vote, which would have provided some useful (and respectful) focus group road testing; hope my assumption is wrong.

Glancing through the story fragments, the workshoppers seem to have generated quality input, well done them, I really hope the output is something they can live with. Well, they have to.
Nearby Long Mark Road has two out of three street name signs incorrectly announcing Longmark Road. Temple Mill(s) Lane in Stratford has been similarly challenged over the decades.
I wonder if Siemens will be paid un-naming rights when they lose their advertisement next to the Crystal.
Addresses still need to be spelled out over the telephone surprisingly often. Although we may be collectively improving our exotic pronunciations, it pains me to think how often one of the choices is going to be frequently mis-transcribed as Camel Crunchie Way. No thanks.
I just know that the irreverent Londoners will end up calling it "Crunchie Way"
Or even “Caramel Crunchie Way”!
Londoners won't call it anything because most won't even know the road exists.

(in the same way that City Hall's current irrelevant address is The Queen's Walk, SE1 2AA)
Kamal Athon Chunchie is quite an interesting chap, already worthy of an entry in the ODNB, although I'm not convinced a road is necessarily the best way to remember him. If another example were needed, his life story illustrates how ethnically diverse London was already in the 1920s and 1930s.

Born into a prominent Malay Muslim family in Ceylon, which made him a minority there; he served in the police in Ceylon and Singapore, was rejected when he tried to join the army there in the First World War; he travelled to London where he joined the Middlesex Regiment and then served in France and Greece and was wounded several times; he married an English woman, converted to Christianity and became a Methodist missionary in the East End, continuing his good works after his Coloured Men's Institute was demolished; cricketer in Essex, and volunteer fireman in the Second World War.
Quite frankly all three choices are awful and it’s annoying that there isn’t an option to say so.

My personal proposal would be to call it Schuman Way.
Saying that the GLA is in the people's way could be misinterpreted by those who wish to do so.
For the road name survey, I don't know if my vote would count, but to me 1 is a no-brainer so I proceeded to actually vote it.
Option D: call the road Dangle Way
or indeed Dangleway Way
It does seem that anybody can vote. The page does however ask for a postcode. Mine is genuinely in Newham. No doubt some people may try to vote from outside the Borough.
A better postcode would be E16 1CH (city hall). It is not in use already.

I wonder how many streets in London have 3 or more words in the name before road, street etc.

And the shortest 1/2 word ones (disregarding mapping website oddities like showing Avenue Road as Av Rd..example in NW8)

I'm now sure DG will say its been done (not always easy to search for this kind on thing)

dg writes: January 2021. You commented on it at the time.
When you vote on the site it asks for the first three characters of your postcode. That gives very inaccurate results in terms of geographical spread. NW1 and SW1 will be getting loads of entries from elsewhere in London!
This time of year, I'm surprised you didn't run into some dragon boat races. Or am I thinking of a different dock?

dg writes: Right dock. Wrong year.
The votes are in: Kamal Chunchie Way is the winner.










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