Mops

I?m having a huge problem with dangerous moped driving on my road (literally all the way down the pavement as well as wheelies and jumps over speed bumps), so it would be great if you could report this to 101 and the safer neighbourhood team! I have done the same multiple times now so it would be helpful for the police to get a bigger picture of the type and number of issues moped drivers are causing at the moment. [email protected] https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/

Sue, Rachp - thank you!! I filed a formal complaint and I believe James McAsh may have to, and the proposal for motorcycle parking is being postponed pending further investigation. I appreciate it may still be revived, but thank you for the advice to go the formal complaint route!

Can we get some on Frogley Road to deter the mopeds please!

Thanks Dave. Latest response from James McAsh (despite him being copied on a years? worth of emails to the highways team which have not been replied to!): Thanks for your email. I am not sure why you were not given advance notice to comment on this proposal but I hope that the highways team will consider it, despite it being after the deadline. It may be that proper motorcycle parking will alleviate some of the problems you have identified, if it makes it easier for the highways team to regulate it. That seems to be the implication from the screenshot below. I am not sure but hopefully they will be able to comment. As for escalation, have you considered taking out a complaint? The complaints process is outlined here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/complaints-comments-and-compliments/making-a-complaint

I don?t think it is; I think they?re moped delivery drivers collecting from local restaurants and delivering through Deliveroo/ JustEat / UberEats etc.

Thank you Rachp and MrsPyne. I have gone on a bit of a spree and emailed everyone under the sun I can think of/ find online. Unfortunately I have been emailing Cllr James McAsh and MP Helen Hayes about this since July 2021. I have also spoken to UberEats, Deliveroo and Yard Sale Pizza. I have now, this evening, redirected my emails to another Southwark councillor, Cllr Catherine Rose, who is the cabinet member for transport, parks and sport. Fingers crossed she can help! In addition to my police reports/ crime reference numbers, I have also filled a neighbourhood concern or whatever it?s called with the Goose Green Ward PCSO. What a night eh! In other news though, it seems Southwark council have used my original July 2021 complaint to James McAsh as an excuse to implement permanent motorcycle parking on my road (Frogley Road). The mind boggles: speaks up about dangerous driving, anti-social behaviour and harassment from moped drivers? Is given moped parking outside property?!

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Thank you, chick! Also sorry for all the typos in my original message. Clearly writing this at the end of my tether from my phone! I?ve spoken to the police and the local council several times unfortunately. The police have come to my house after the two documented dangerous driving/ attempted theft incidents. I?ve also spoken with the local businesses but they?ve said ?they can?t control their drivers?. Bit disappointing to say the least! Everyone seems to say it?s someone else?s job (council vs highways vs police vs private businesses vs licensing vs parking review). If anyone else feels the same way, has witnessed this behaviour or has seen dangerous driving/ near misses caused by parking obstructions, please do contact the police and council! I am guessing only volume of escalations will get any response or action.

I wondered if anyone had any ideas, or had had any success, discussing moped issues with the local council or the police? I live on one of the roads off the north end of Lordship Lane. I appreciate my road is permit free, but it is entirely residential in nature but for the huge number of moped and motorbike delivery drivers we have seen arrive to our street in the last 18 months. I understand delivery driving is a valuable source of income for many people, but I am becoming increasingly desperate as the behaviour becomes more antisocial. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas I could pose to the council, so I?m going with a solution rather than just moaning? The drivers who regularly park on my road often rev their engines needlessly, sit with their ignitions on, litter cigarette buts and food wrappers, chat very loudly until gone 11pm, spit on the pavement and sometimes sit on my neighbours and my front walls. This keeps me awake at night, interrupts my work and means I regularly clean up after them on the pavement. This is all somewhere between a nuisance and antisocial but, more worryingly however, I have had moped drivers dangerously drive down the entire length of the pavement straight at me. I was also the victim of an attempted moped mugging outside of the co-op last year which really shook me up, as they drove into me and another woman. Unfortunately at the weekend I saw a Yard Sale moped delivery driver intentionally rev and speed up to scare a homeless person crossing the road with his duvet I am also concerned by the moped drivers? repeated parking on double yellow lines, as often pedestrians cannot see oncoming cars around the bikes/ mopeds and vice versa; drivers using the road to drive towards lordship lane cannot see the pedestrians crossing on their way up/ down the high street. There is a huge amount of pedestrian traffic from parents with strollers and/ or young families with small child on this road and I?ve seen mopeds and cars almost hit strollers being pushed out into the road or young children countless times, where vision has been obscured by mopeds parked on double yellows within 5 yards of the junction. I asked the moped drivers politely after one such incident whether they could move to the loading pay or the area without any yellow lines, explaining they?re there for safety (I.e. so visibility isn?t obscured at junctions). One of the moped drivers then followed me into Bon and took photos of me, saying he?d circulate them to his mates so they knew who to come for and that they know where I live. I reported this to the police, but still when I leave my house this same guy says ?I know where you live? when I walk by and his mates all jeer at me. As a young woman I find this incredibly intimidating and it makes me scared to go out alone. I really want to find a solution which enables me to sleep at night/ not be nervous when leaving the house, but which also means they can keep doing their jobs and don?t feel antagonised by me, but I have no idea what to suggest to the council. Would it be reasonable to ask for parking to be made available on the commercial road (I.e. lordship lane)?

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I agree more needs to - and can - change and I think a bit of idealism isn?t entirely misplaced when it comes to environmental and social sustainability, but I also can?t help read this thread and find it all a bit privileged. Solutions need to include people with disabilities, people on lower incomes, people with caring responsibilities, women at higher risk of being victims of violence (and who are frankly traumatised by recent events in London) - and more. Whilst I?m sure there?s capacity abundant for the most privileged in society to make better choices within the existing infrastructure, I fear taking a judgmental, omniscient and frankly holier than thou approach only seeks to alienate the broader community, all of whom should be included in plans for sustainability. I only came here looking for a map and some rules of the road so will back off now but felt strongly about the lack of inclusion and blinkered perspectives going on in here.

@first mate - I have already explained my dog cannot walk that far. I also have a disability. This is also irrelevant however as I asked a specific question about the rules, not whether the self appointed judges of the East Dulwich Forum deem my journey or mode of transport appropriate. Pretty impertinent and not very inclusive a response IMO?

Very sorry if this has already been answered, but is there anywhere online it?s easy to see what the rules currently are?! I?m not just asking this to make a point (though that too!) but genuinely, how do I find out the most recent rules for when and where I can drive?! It seems when you google it lots of contradicting maps come up from phase one and phase two and on the councils website phase one maps are linked more frequently and obviously than phase three? which doesn?t make much sense to me. I basically want to park on Eynella road to walk my dog in Dulwich Park as he can?t walk all the way to the park and back from our house! Thank you

Still not as bad as the LL Coop security guy (who I haven?t seen for a few weeks actually) who casually has a wee outside against the coop sign by the ATM when he needs the loo mid shift. Man has amazing lack of shame; just wanders back inside to his job on the door whilst still doing up his flies and belt. So much for rigorous hygiene and hand washing in the times of COVID...!!

Maniana - I do agree. He certainly needs and deserves proper support, but there?s a limited amount bystanders can do and, I?m not sure if you?ve been a victim of his temper, but he can be very intimidating, angry and offensive. I can see some merit in warning people to be vigilant so they don?t take it personally and antagonise him as he can become quite unpredictable. If you have any ideas of how we can get him the help you suggest without putting him at risk or getting him in trouble I?m all ears though! It?s a difficult one.