Ah Rox, the EV is a potential solution to pollution, not congestion, the EV motorcycle is a step towards both, it’s about taking what steps you can to alleviate a part of the problem. As for being able to charge an EV in a high population area, well that’s yet another problem to be addressed. The real criminality is disabled people funding an Underground system that has only a couple of fully wheelchair accessible stations.
The Heygate, yes, I remember passing through that area for years & thinking that the post WWII housing was a cheap stop-gap solution that would eventually need to be addressed. Before that though, the slums that were bombed out and the early 20th century social housing estates of which many remain & are still considered quite good housing, go back further to the slums with the tanneries & everyone working from home in the Victorian era. Surrey was so cheap compared to London, yet that area was a little swampy. I’m very aware of my family’s history and my own in that area, we all left a long time ago, as we had left the Covent Garden area & Seven Dials before that, and on my mother’s side, Bethnal Green. I left New Cross in 1987 & I’m not going back. Through hard work & education we improved our lives.
Change is the only Constant, embrace it or go extinct.