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It's because they're not looking for you, and there are cars parked right up to the junction, so even if they are, they can't see you. Looking at the layout (in pic), double-yellows for at least three car lengths would solve it. And the existing white lines are faded. Or install an American-style four-way stop sign junction.

All you need to know: http://cprr.org/Museum/Rail_Wear_Johnson/index.html

Ann's right - especially at the 'chain' charity store. The really good stuff goes on eBay: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/British-Heart-Foundation-Shop

Correct. Especially in bike/cycle-filled London.

Worried about the overclaim, perhaps?

A cover is good - a dirty old tarp stops the opportunists. A chain or disc lock will stop the hammer-and-screwdriver mob, but nothing except a ground anchor and chain stops the most common M.O.: four blokes loading the bike into a van with cut-off scaffold poles.

Once asked the girl at the fish counter at Sainsbury's to prepare a sea bass I'd bough whole (Moxon's was closed). She looked at me and said, 'sorry I'm not trained to use knives'. The girl on the deli overheard her and ran over to muck in, filleting my fish perfectly. 'We'll have to train you up then' said the deli girl. The fish girl giggled and said 'Eww, I don't really like fish though'.

What kind of bike, barcat?

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wot managed to get a girl's number in those > circumstances? Fair play to you! And she did the classic - gave you a fake one!

Looks flash - there's a few hundred quid's worth of custom-made transfers in the window announcing the arrival of the hospice 'superstore'. I wonder how many Celine Dion CDs, old teapots and shiny suits they'll have to shift to pay off the lease.

The latest: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23919210-teenager-stabbed-to-death-in-front-of-shocked-bus-passengers.do

Will cost you ?150-?300 depending on the car.

And clamping a vehicle, so it blocks a space, or a road. There were three cars clamped by Denmark Hill station one morning recently. How is that solving anything? Two of them were still there when I rode past at tea time.

But maybe Sean does have a point in comparing drug users and motorists: Average fine for possession of heroin (1998): ?129 Fine for parking where you shouldn't: ?120

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > You only have to take a bus up Walworth Rd (or > really any high streeet) to realise how disruptive > illegally parked cars can be... Agreed. Or take a bus up LL, and wait for it to negotiate the aforementioned parking smart car

I could find plenty of examples of motorists in London who didn't intend to break the law, but found themselves ticketed by target-driven, mostly-US companies acting on behalf of greedy councils. That, and the cheek of being ticketed by a vehicle which is itself blocking a bus lane, is definitely worth a whine.

Medley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 25 to > Baker St is madness, I tell you, madness! > That's with a 600cc engine; it's 35 mins on push bike. I'd be Lance Armstrong to do it in 25

+1 SE22 - Baker Street in 25 mins

No stopping 7-10am. Loading is usually defined as having to park in that location because the load is too big to carry from a spot around the corner.

No, because that affects sensible riders like me. Call the police if they're a menace. Not 999 though.

And look for an N or P-reg car

citizenED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And all this hassle to replace just 42" of pipe. > God be Jesus. !

Mike Hunt's mate?

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looking at Streetview, it appears to be a single > yellow line... but no signage, so they're invalid

They've probably noticed that there are no parking restriction signs on this part of Grove Vale. As long as they stay off the double yellows, they're okay. Any tickets would be invalid for this technicality. The bigger rush hour parking issues are caused by - as Sean says - people chancing it in the bus lane, including Southwark's 'safety' smartcar. The parking on the corner beyond KwikFit is a problem too - that's often a bottleneck for buses. Usually builders in the cafe, Transit van parked on the single yellow outside.