Great websites that promote civic activism

There’s a series of sites produced by a chap called Matthew Somerville (et al) which I think are just great.

• TheyWorkForYou.com – TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan website which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected and unelected representatives in Parliament. Also related to this website is HearFromYourMP , where people give their postcode in order to receive messages from their MP, if their MP should choose to use the service.
• traintimes.org.uk – A useable version of National Rail’s own website – sans Flash and avec deep links and other good bits.
• FixMyStreet – FixMyStreet lets you report local problems such as broken street lights or graffiti to your local council without having to know which council has responsibility for the issue, by locating the problem on Ordnance Survey’s very small scale detailed local maps. A good idea but am not sure how effective it is in execution?