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Regardless who is behind them, both groups do a good job of raising public awareness which is something the council seem to be more secretive about IMHO 🤔

Obviously the PM needs passengers for a free holiday to Rwanda 😅

Is your business closed as recorded by Companies House or dormant ? If fully closed then you obviouspy wee not selling tje item as a business and it was a orobate sale ,(regardless where the funds were paid to) As a private sale of a second hand item there is no comeback. As the person who bought it from you is also a repair specialist, and they checked it over before buying then sounds like they are pulling a fast one. If you feel intimidated by their approach then simply report them to the police and as a business maybe also trading standards.

I am curious dulwich dweller, as someone who claims to regularly use a bus you seem to be arguing for their reduction based on the fact that we aren't packing them in like cattle. Maybe that's the issue, covid has made people reluctant to use packed buses and by reducing them so they are fuller, some would say over full, then it both becomes harder to find space and discourages people from using them. 🤔 Whilst an empty bus is seen inefficient financially by some, it may well encourage more people to use it as they'll don't feel like cattle going for slaughter. Or do you think that we need the Japanese pushers to pack more people into buses. ?

The honest truth is for every one car I see do any of those, I see 50 cyclists jumping lights, using the pavement or failing to stop for pedestrians. Yes it happens but proportionally cyclists seem to flout the law more than cars drivers. As I said it's perception.

Hen123, despite the stats, it still doesn't mean cyclists are safe to ignore the rules. There's an old joke when a 95 year old granny with poor eyesight was asked if she had been involved in any accidents during her driving career, and she replies none but I've seen plenty in my rear view mirror I have seen so many near misses (both as a bus user, driver and pedestrian) where a cyclist has done something unexpected or illegal and fear the day that its not a near miss.

"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it must be a duck" comes to mind Unfortunately, a large number of cyclists do exhibit selfish amd anti social behaviour which, regardless of how many good cyclists there are, is seen as the norm. It's a bit like one car driver jumping a red light and all car drivers getting tarred by the same brush. Perception is the issue and if cyclists all obeyed the rules, everyone would be less anti them but unfortunately that isn't the case 🤔

Thank you @Dulwich dweller, interesting article showing that travel is almost at 90% of pre pandemic. However as interesting as it is, all this bus time malarkey is a distraction from my origionsl point that the £130 million generated from 6 months of revenue from the ULEZ is not being reinvested in transport as we still have a service that isn't as frequent or with as many routes as prior to the pandemic. @Earl Aelfheah again this rethoroc that cars are stored, yet if the council introduced a controlled parking zone where people can park their cars for a fee (BTW no one says i'm just going to store my car) or if car parks were added to areas to free up road space it would still bizarrely be called parking not storage 😉 Obviously you are trying to change how we speak but it really isn't washing.

@Earl Aelfheah you used a figure estimated by the RAC then applied assumptions (journeys are less than 20 minutes, and led the reader to the conclusion that cars are parked solely on the road) which is a leap of speculation done on the back of a torn beer mat. If you can demonstrate the average motor vehicle journey (categorised into vehicle type) and not just quote urban myth, account for rural vs town usage plus show the proportion of vehicles parked on the Road , off road and also account for random factors including vehicles in 2nd hand forecourts, classic vehicles in garages, vehicles that are being restored and SORN then your estimate might be closer to fact but at the moment it is just that, your estimate.

Nothing magical at all... you clearly stated 5 minutes 🙄

interesting @Dulwich dweller. According to the live bus tracker, every 12 to 15 minutes and this also confirms it http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/012.htm Not sure how you magically get one every 5 minutes (which is how the service ran pre cuts) Your assumption is that every car is parked on the road Outside central Lindon, a lot are parked off road, lor in garages. Some do move less frequently than others, granted but some more frequently and most trips are longer than 20 minutes outside perhaps the school run. Your whole calculation is based on wide open assumptions and little fact.

@Dulwich dweller buses were cut, during covid, due to passenger numbers yet TfL recently said passenger numbers were back to 90% of pre covid, so why hasn't the service been restored. Instead we have more people on fewer buses. Obviously you don't use the 12 regularly as it went from an every 5 to 6 minute service to an every 12 to 15 minute service, and still gets "regulated" so that isn't a winner for passenger journey times. @Earl Aelfheah again this rhetoric that parking your car is long term storage, its not. Most cars move in and out of parking on a regular basis freeing up the space for others. Persinally, yes, drivers do pay the full cost of motoring despite your moans, its a net positive revenue generator for the government. But as I gave pointed out, the £130 million isn't used for health or roads so its an additional tax on motorists.

Wait till the electric batteries start failing in 3 to 5 years, that's the largest cost financially and environmentally

Except he perceived polluter does pay: VED, VAT, IPT, fuel duty and in some circumstances CPZ charges. Not sure how much harder you can squeeze them pips before the rebellion starts 🤔