DEATHTRAP OWNERS MOCKED GOVT FIRE SAFETY ORDERS FOR 16 YEARS

Buildings Dept ordered many fire safety improvements at New Lucky House starting in 2008 but owners repeatedly made excuses to delay work

Dear subscribers,

The first Transit Jam story for a while, a shocking (but probably not surprising) tale of complete fire safety enforcement breakdown at New Lucky House where five people died in a horrific fire yesterday. Please read and share, we need to hold our government to account for their outrageously lax attitudes to public safety.

This story also marks a bit of a return for the newspaper: I’m ramping up the official transitjam.com site again and also back on Twitter so this Substack will revert to being a weekly wrap of the news with maybe some opinion or comment (which I generally kept off the newspaper before it closed last year).

Thanks for keeping up with this over the last year, it’s been a difficult time! But the fact I can now leave the house without being tailed by NSL goons probably means the worst is over and any investigation into me and my family turned up nothing.

That said, I will never forget how the government ruined my life (for a year anyway) on the basis of a one-man demonstration calling for a pedestranisation scheme in Central. Someone very senior in government repeatedly used the word “unsophisticated” when discussing the state newspaper who launched this hate campaign against me, so it’s encouraging they don’t have unilateral support in their nonsense.

I won’t be able to return to full daily news output for a while so please be patient if the coverage is sporadic. And I note that in Transit Jam’s absence there’s been some great coverage from

Tripperhead Gazette

on most of the issues we would normally cover anyway and I hope that continues!

Thanks and maybe see you over on the hellsite!

James