kford

It's a good ruse if they are burglars though - do your business 'in plain sight'. I know a photographer who shoots a lot of real-life stuff, on the street. He always wears a flouro green jacket because then no-one ever asks what you're up to.

Does your house back onto a house in Fellbrigg Road?

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"My comment in the form shall be along the lines of, that I hope the right turn filter light will not be a separate light; ie. that we will still be allowed to turn right on the onward green light when it is safe to do so." That would be the sensible approach.

Twitpic: http://yfrog.com/hsku9wzj

They'd be much more popular if they stocked Playboy games.

"Southwark Council is having to make savings of nearly ?400,000 in its library service over the next three years." Cost of the Grove Vale 'improvements': ?500,000. Just thought I'd mention it.

Not helped by honey-traps like this: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23955010-streets-baffling-traffic-signs-trap-41000-drivers-and-raise-pound-5m.do

Only for not having recyclable refuse. Previously had memorised a Lambeth address to get around the problem...

"The mobile units are often searching for untaxed, registered, and / or insured cars." Not these mobile units, unless James can correct me otherwise. That's done by the police mobile ANPR units and DVLA's mobile ANPR vans. You'll see them driving round the streets, plain white VW Transporters with a camera on each corner of the roof. These cameras are operated by contractors, such as NCP or the US-based APCOA. They are experts in collecting parking fines mostly.

Tarzan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The solution is even simpler than that - Don't > break the rules and you won't be punished - > everything else is just whining. But, as Jeremy says, when it's about targets rather than just about safety, you'll find motorists punished for the most minor of technicalities, like hanging a wheel just one inch out of a parking bay or into a box junction, or as motorists in Camden have found, being fined for turning across a bus lane into a shop car park.

"There is no doubt that they reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on the roads." There is no proof whatsoever that this particular type of traffic enforcement camera saves lives. They are not calibrated to be speed cameras, so can only enforce minor and non-endorsable offences like no-left and no-right-turn violations, box junction blocking and parking. And how will hiding in the bushes at ED's most dangerous junction prevent an accident?

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But in 2011 does anyone NEED a warning that > traffic enforcement is in operation. Why can't you > just take it as read? Because legally, there has to be a warning. That's why they used to tie their signs on to nearby lampposts. There are permanent ones fixed on LL now.

I've written before on here (and to Southwark) about these Orwellian devices blocking the bus lane at the junction of ED Grove and parked dangerously on the LL junction with Hansler Road. The contractors seem to have got the message as they're now almost always parked outside SMBS, in a parking bay. And they still leave their engines running to power their equipment, which itself is an offence attracting a ?20 fine (the 2010 Southwark Transport Plan wants to raise this to ?120).

"There is actually a designated parking spot (just inside the park on the left hand side) for this said car on the peckham rye/east dulwich road traffic light junction. " Hidden in the bushes too. So much for prevention rather than cure.

They are genuine, but you can find what they do cheaper online.

Postmen are trained to, for the reasons listed above.

N/bound traffic would be hemmed in by the kerb and slowed down by the red light, but I see what you mean, it could hold back the n/bound flow, allowing s/bound traffic to turn right, and there is an 'unofficial' southbound left and right-hand lane there already.

I'm with PGC, the Crawthew Grove one is a wasted opportunity - it should be located north of the ED Grove junction to ease crossing there. In the proposed location, on a red light, it will encourage vehicles to pull out of the traffic queue to turn right into ED Grove, something that happens regularly at the crossing by Denmark Hill station. Dangerous for pedestrians crossing, bikers and cyclists filtering and motorists turning left out of ED Grove.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > English spelling teachers would be ideal....! Well, they say opposites attract...

More here: http://southsouthwarkbusinessassociation.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-crossing-proposals-for-lordship.html

In our street, cans & glass go together, plastic separate. Paper/card (but not cartons) in the bag/spare blue box. They don't collect otherwise.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the schools money has all been spent on > free meals for rich kids? Ha! Fair point.

Huguenot: "All hail the council" Well, you can pay for it. I'd rather the ?500k be spent elsewhere, like on schools.

@James B: "Hi kford, Referinig people to a campaign against street lighting is hardly likely to be a balanced website." I added 'to be taken with a pinch of salt' until I read the paragraph aspidistra highlighted.