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  1. Earl have you noticed how many bus lanes have been turned into cycle lanes….take a walk across any one of London’s bridges over the Thames and see how the bus lanes have been turned into cycle lanes and buses now sit in traffic with all of the other vehicles and TFL has said that bus journey times have slowed across London, although they have blamed roadworks for the delays. Angelina, the National Travel Survey showed that London modal share is declining for cycles due to people returning to buses and tubes (I believe bus use had increased by 59% and was heading back to pre-Covid levels) there was a thread on it in October (National Travel Survey and cycling policy in London)
  2. It was interesting watching the coverage on it today and the talk that consultations HAD been held for many of the LTNs but, of course, the Achilles heal for many of them is whether those consultations pass the legal tide-mark for whether they allowed residents to have a voice. Southwark could well become a poster-child for how some councils have used consultations as a means to force their ideological plans on residents (and it was maybe no surprise that Southwark refused to respond to the governments request for information). This made me laugh as it presumes local communities actually had a say in the first place - a bit of a leap of faith when it comes to Southwark to say the least: Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: “The Conservatives’ latest attempt to dictate to local communities how to run their streets is a blatant and desperate attempt to distract people from a Government that has run out of road." It is, of course, no coincidence that since the government shone a light on the dodgy consultation practices of some that Southwark have actually started to run consultations with a yes/no response mechanism rather than a consultation that be even responding to you are forced to validate the council's plans. An admission if you ever needed one that the previous Southwark consultations may not survive a legal/judicial review. But with a new Labour government it will probably all be forgotten and a blind-eye turned to it and Southwark will be able to return to their devious consultation ways and forge ahead with whatever takes their fancy!
  3. Alice, It's the data behind that map that tells the true story - it's worth an explore to understand what is going on: https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/dulwich-village/?yourlocalpolicingteam=about-us In the Dulwich Village ward overall reported crime is up over the last year and over the last 3 years. Now, it's a bit of challenge trying to understand where the type of crime that is becoming such a problem locally is logged but there are three categories where it would reside when reported: robbery (where theft, a weapon or violence is used), theft from a person or other theft (phone snatches are filed as other). Now over the last three years all three categories have been growing considerably in the Dulwich Village ward: 2021 (data from Jan 21 missing due to 3 year cut-off): Robbery: 17 Theft from person: 4 Other theft: 45 2022 Robbery: 28 Theft from person: 23 Other theft: 96 2023 Robbery: 49 Theft from person: 35 Other theft: 77 January 2024 Robbery: 5 Theft from person: 7 Other theft: 6 And you can see from the attached policing priorities document from the same police report that the police acknowledge the problems with robberies (from school children) and phone snatches in the area. So crime is rising being driven by violent or threatening robbery, theft from persons and phone snatches - and car crime is increasing in the area too. It makes for grim reading and most definitely not a perceived increase in crime (per Cllr Leeming's comments) but a very much actual increase in crime and crime that massively impacts those who are on the receiving end of it. I wonder if it is time for the council to acknowledge there is a crime problem in the ward and try to proactively address it.
  4. Alice, what data are you looking at as the data published by the police for the area tells a very different story - and one Cllr Leeming may want to take a look at if he really thinks the increase in crime is just perceived....?
  5. It is becoming a big problem, especially around Townley, Beauval, Dovercourt, Woodwarde and Calton and the criminals are becoming more and more brazen because they know no-one can do anything and they will never be caught. They are there on an almost daily basis looking for, and more often than not finding, victims.
  6. Ha ha...Starmer is trying to make Labour electable (he is winning me back) and you can't do that from the far-left and this is why Labour HQ may have an issue with McAsh taking the helm of Southwark - a throw back to the dark, dark days of Corbyn! To be honest I thought McAsh's bigger political aspirations died after his call to action to get people to block the police doing an immigration raid in Peckham was plastered all over the Mail - that stuff can come back to haunt you when you progress to the big leagues and causes problems with party HQs who want to present a more acceptable face to the masses!
  7. Yes on 101. This may have been the same group robbing people at knifepoint in Dulwich Park earlier- a friend's street What's App group had been warning people about activity in the park. After the two we saw went down Dovercourt (one of them gave me a lovely one finger salute as i must have stared at him in the wrong way), a couple of minutes later we heard a woman's scream and men shouting at whomever was making her scream from down Dovercourt towards Townley.
  8. Two kids in balaclavas wearing one blue surgical glove each acting very suspiciously around Dovercourt Road at the moment. Looks like they are waiting to try and rob people.
  9. The problem for Cllr McAsh is that he is just the type of far-left politician that Labour HQ is trying to clean the party of - which might explain his timing for his mutiny and power play!
  10. Do you have the link to the schools survey I have not seen it - it's not the one Aldred and Goodman did is it? I agree you need a mix but I do sense the council is just using the school challenges as an excuse to shoe horn the CPZs in and they will have zero impact on the number of people dropping their kids off - after all most parents don't park for long when dropping the kids off, they tend to do rapid demounts.
  11. Earl, you are not completely correct on the increases in traffic - the actual dashboard shows that traffic has increased (and is continuing to increase) on many roads and remember key displacement roads like Underhill Road, Barry Road and the A205 are not monitored (interestingly though Underhill and Barry Road have monitoring strips in place now). Anyone who knows Croxted Road would probably challenge the council's assertation that traffic has dropped by 32% on that road but that is probably down to the failings of monitoring strips to monitor crawling traffic under 10kph. Your are correct the DV consultation was not a referendum (the council is not that foolish as they know they would lose that) but the council is bound by guidelines on consultations which say: What is consultation? Consultation is technically any activity that gives local people a voice and an opportunity to influence important decisions. It involves listening to and learning from local people before decisions are made or priorities are set. That's the guidance from the local government association. Consultations are not supposed to be designed so the council can just force whatever it wants on it's residents - which is what Southwark has been doing before it was forced to put yes/no responses into the CPZ consultation. So the DV consultation is the last one where the council have been able to design the consultation to influence the result THEY want. But just look at the results - overwhelming rejection of the plans (and 82% of the people who responded said they were from the Dulwich area) and this without a yes/no. The mood board amongst my friends (not scientific by any means) was that local people were annoyed the council was prepared to waste yet more of our money on that junction given the huge amount of money that has been spent on it already (especially at a time when the council is pleading it has no money). The consensus amongst locals is that the biggest issue with that junction now is fast moving cyclists coming down Calton (especially on Saturdays and Sundays when they head off to Box Hill!) and all that is need is a cyclist dismount sign to help counter that. The council's obsession with that junction is clearly not being driven by the views of local residents but something else.
  12. Earl, whose research was it that came to that conclusion? If that is the case does it not negate the council's message that they need to force CPZs on the residents of Calton and Townley (against their will) to counter school drop off issues? Surely if the LTNs delivered such great results then the CPZ is not needed to combat that particular issue?
  13. Interesting article...worth a read...https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/streatham-ltn-was-a-disaster-so-glad-been-ditched-2950959
  14. No but that was the suggestion. Given your role as part of the cycle lobby are you aware of any cycleways that have been paused in Southwark? I can assure you I didn't read it in a One Dulwich post or Tory leaflet and nor am I making it up. Glad you are acknowledging that the council could well have had to reign back certain projects because their revenue projection changed due to their inability to roll-out borough-wide CPZs. They clearly thought the CPZ was a shoe-in because they signed the contract with APCOA on the basis of them rolling it out - again another item that will be causing a deficit elsewhere now it isn't recouping the revenue. It does look like they were spending money on a promise and now have a funding issue as a result.
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