Sally Eva

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sally Eva Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Thatcher used it as a cash cow. She put the > price > > of postage way above the cost and subsidised > other > > parts of government. She did not permit the > cash > > generated to be re-invested. > > > Well, yes, exactly. > > Not only was it standing on its own feet, it was > subsidising other things. > > ETA: But it wasn't Thatcher who set the price of > stamps. it was the chancellor of the exchequer. It used to be announced in the budget.

Thatcher used it as a cash cow. She put the price of postage way above the cost and subsidised other parts of government. She did not permit the cash generated to be re-invested.

Let me recommend Ecotricity -- not because it's cheap (I don't know whether it is or not) but because it is eco and people friendly. Well run and personable.

The mayor's healthy streets initiative could be the way forward https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/health/transport-and-health/healthy-streets-london TfL has money for liveable neighbourhoods https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/boroughs/liveable-neighbourhoods Southwark didn't get any of the first round of funding because its proposal was so inadequate. The elections are coming so now is the time to raise this with your candidates

This has been pointed out before and the council has promised a traffic-review which will specifically cover a wider area.

http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/complaints/an_introduction_complaining Anyone thought of using this Trsnsport Users Group to complain? The Fire Brigade are the other people I would think of involving -- the entrance to this station is an accident waiting to happen.

Eh voila https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/roadworks-and-highway-improvements/obstructions-on-roads-and-pavements

yes, I completely agree. This is the point to emphasise to the council. When I say "calming" I am being vague. I certainly prefer road closures (filtered permeability). One neat road closure can avoid miles of humps. Local access only produces far less, far better tempered traffic.

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers would take them. They give out clothes. They have a session in the Copleston Centre on Tuesdays http://www.sdcas.org.uk/our-centres.html I'm sorry they didn't respond. I know they get snowed under but are grateful for clothes. You could try again or drop in.

I think that although we lost on Camberwell Grove the council was a bit taken aback that 20% wanted it kept shut. The tumult caused by those who want it open drowns out everyone else. And so, the council is committed to an area wide traffic plan -- to calm all the roads at once without just pushing the traffic from one to another. I'm sure a lot of people will hate that too but it seems a sensible place to start -- in fact it seems a sensible place to have started some time ago.

I think safety-at-speed is one of the things which says whether a road is suitable for through traffic or not. If I could go back to my definition of rat-running: going further in order to get there faster. The route is further but is expected to have fewer traffic lights and congestion so using it is expected to be quicker. It's full of twists and turns which have to be taken at speed in order to arrive faster. A hold-up is super-annoying because the whole point of this (longer) route is that it's not congested. If it is then wow it's neither shorter nor quicker. GET OUT OF MY WAY. Traffic which is nearly home has achieved some sort of peace. it's slowing down. It's looking for a parking spot. Those kids might be my neighbour's kids -- I'm looking out for them. Adys road is parked on both sides and the space in the middle will not take two cars passing. It is an extremely worrying as a cyclist to meet a car coming towards you on Adys road at speed. Since it's going fast the driver will be in the middle of the road -- he doesn't want to get near the parked cars at that speed. OTOH he doesn't want to slow down -- there's still got a long way to go before he's safely back on his route.

I don't think it means the straightest route, which is usually the main road. It means what is thought to be the quickest route. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/rat_run cyclists often don't take the straightest route (you should see my route between Peckham and New Cross) they take what they believe to be the safest. So I never cycle along Nunhead Lane, East Dulwich Road and East Dulwich Grove to get to Dulwich Village. I go via Peckham rye park, Friern Road and Dulwich Park because that is a lot safer. We (southwark cyclists) run rides at the weekends an incidental point of which is to show people how to cycle around safely. Don't follow those buses, don't go the way your neighbour drives, go this much safer way. The problem arises for us when the backstreets way is made dangerous by car drivers going that bit further in order to get there faster and taking unsuitable roads to do it. I did for a while have to cycle up Adys Road once a week and mighty dangerous and unpleasant it was.

Road-closures (filtered permeability) to stop rat-running are the approach supported by southwark cyclists. The problem is that Councillors are frightened to suggest them because of angry reception such ideas receive. If you feel that road-closures are a safer way forward, please write to your councillor

That is unbelievably shocking. I am so sorry

Mscrawthew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James Barber Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hi TE44, > > Housing Associations and the council have tens > of > > thousand of social housing in controlled > parking > > zones so they must have cracked this one. > > Less time to do the job in hand so they are rushed > and incomplete. Results in secondary calls > > to the local council at more cost. Private > contractors just add the cost of the tickets to > the final bill so we still get pay indirectly! Apcoa, who are the council parking contractors, do not automatically cover HA car parking. On Oxley close/Stephenson Crescent the parking on the road (whoever it is by) is enforced by Apcoa on behalf of the council. The houses are Wandle HA and the off-road Wandle HA car parking is not enforced by Apcoa. Wandle are responsible for that themselves. Other HA may subcontract to Apcoa I guess.

I'm not entirely sure that the context absolves him. It's an attack on people/organisations not because of what they think or state but because of what their names sound like.

I agree with your message. Could I ask you to include more people in it? The most despicable remark in the Brexit IMO is Michael Gove "people in this country have had enough of experts". This is a straightforward attack on knowledge.

this sounds sad rather than bad.

peckhamguy -- really living up to your name. Respect

siousxiesue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi James > > I'm wondering if this is your remit even, but if > not maybe others have an opinion? > > Rye Caf? was recently taken over by Colicci, as > they have done in Dulwich park also. The Rye > building seems to be malfunctioning regularly! The > shutters are stuck down on half the building and > the access is only from the back door now so > wheelchairs would struggle. > > I know they won the contract but I think they're > highly overrated, prices went up and it's turned > from a caff where you could get a great sausage > sandwich etc to a place that time restricts > breakfast! Service of a weekend can be glacial. > > What do others think? I think the coffee is awful

oh good. I've amended the link so that it's not broken http://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking/report-a-parking-enforcement-issue I haven't done anything special to it. I don't know why it broke -- or now doesn't

If you report potholes on Fix My Street IME they are quickly (not terribly effectively) patched. I think southwark must use it as a management tool. https://www.fixmystreet.com The ones in the gutter at the East Dulwich Lane junction with Peckham Rye west don't seem to get fixed whatever I do or report. I think if a road is on the list for an overhaul then patching is delayed so the work doesn't get done twice.

Parking enforcement details here with opening hours Monday to sunday inclusive. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking/report-a-parking-enforcement-issue Direct line (hardly any delay) 0207 708 8587.

Do you have a theory why 20mph is a difficult speed to maintain but 30mph is easy?

I tell a lie. There is this https://littlevillagehq.org which links back to the Southwark Little Village Crowdfunding page but does have info which can be checked such as a charity number and a link to a church in Wandsworth.