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I've use ICE for years. Very useful.

Look on ebay in the next few weeks. It might've been taken to break for spares. Shame.

It was on Hansler - next door to us! They filmed our extension over the fence.

You mean right into Clapham Park Road, here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=bedford+road+sw4&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bedford+Rd,+London+SW4,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ei=LHMGTJbgMuWW4gbe0NXIDA&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA&ll=51.459943,-0.129175&spn=0.007153,0.019162&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.460031,-0.129184&panoid=0G-7f3ESQRbOG3tRhU-dZg&cbp=12,178.19,,0,18.51 This is new and is there not for safety reasons, but to ease congestion as the road is too narrow to allow through traffic to pass on the left (Bedford Rd is notoriously busy, partly because of ill-timed traffic light sequences at this junction). There is just one no left turn sign on the traffic light. Easy to ignore if the light is on green and you've always made that turn before, but the sign is clear, they will argue. There's no come back, I'm afraid. They would rather you turn left and then perform a tricky U-turn to get to where you're going. Bonkers, and dangerous.

Where in clapham?

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Great news. I'm guessing it's been dropped and had its locks hacked at, as mine was when it was nicked and recovered a couple of years ago. Sounds like opportunists walking it away, rather than that van your neighbours heard too.

Yes. Especially as it was there again this morning, blocking my bus.

I saw that Orwellian smart car parked opposite the Bishop, in the bus lane, causing more congestion than the roadworks outside the post office, ironically trying to nab people driving and parking in the bus lane.

Might be those pesky parakeets.

They want the planes back.

Have you got both sets of keys still? It's pretty impossible to open and start a modern car without them.

Tarmac it over and turn it into a rollerdisco. Sorry. Had a drink

I'm with mark. The fewer signs the better, for all road users.

I like those active signs. Especially the ones which 'smile' if you're under the limit. A good carrot, not stick, approach

Narnia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My wife felt sorry for them and gave them ?2 > without buying anything. Better they try and make > a crust this way than some other ways. If you > didn't see the ID how can you say it was dubious > as he was obviously unsuccessful in forcing it > into your face? Sorry, better that young lads knock you up at 9.45pm and hawk overpriced jeyes cloths at you, then hurl abuse when you politely say you're not interested? How would you feel if you were old or on your own? Please don't encourage this behaviour. It's been covered before on here and the general consensus, surprise, surprise, is that they're dodgy. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,11069,page=1 Edited to add link

For the second time this week we've be doorstepped by a youth selling tea towels and whatnots from a basket. Last Thursday at 9.45pm and just now. I politely said I'm not interested and, when he ignored this and tried to force his dubious ID in my face, I closed the door only to hear him reel off a tirade of abuse and peer through the frosted glass of our front door for a minute or so. They're working the roads off Lordship Lane, if you hear a knock at the door just now.

Shared Space is designed to lower limits, and make drivers/road users/pedestrians more aware of each other. After all, speeding accounts for only around 7% of accidents - most are caused by driver inattention, like talking on the phone or fiddling with a satnav. When the traffic lights failed at the top of Dog Kennel Hill once, it was impressive to see how everyone - pedestrians and motorists alike - used eye contact between each other to negotiate the junction safely and slowly.

Shared Space is the way forward. Works in the Netherlands and, anecdotally, in the UK too: http://www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk/index.php?do=projects

Isn't most of SE22 a 20mph zone anyway?

Sean: "If the roads are dangerous places it isn't because of these wardens" It is when they obstruct the mouth of a junction. It's an endorsable offence, like parking on the brow of a hill, or on zig-zags. Sean, this is not just about flaunting parking regs to ticket motorists, this is about dangerous parking. If a Saturday shopper parked where this car was parked and a fatal accident occured, you'd be one of the first in line calling for action. Parking in a loading bay/on a single yellow/permit zone to nab illegal parkers - cheeky, at worst hypocritical, but not the end of the world. Parking in a position which endangers other road users - illegal and dangerous. They aren't used for speeding BTW, it's purely parking enforcement. So any 'safety' argument is blown out the window, unless they're able to nab themselves. Plus, they leave the engine running to power their equipment. Aside from the environmental aspect, that's an offence too.

He's made himself available on this forum, and you can't argue with that.

@eye - I think this is just a parking camera. @puzzled - I've never received a PCN from Southwark and I've nothing against sensible parking control; there would be chaos otherwise. I do, however, have an issue with this do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do approach, especially when it makes the roads less safe.

The Southwark Parking spy-car is at it again today, on double yellow lines, obstructing the sightline left out of Hansler Road onto Lordship Lane. Highway Code Rule 243: "DO NOT stop or park near a school entrance anywhere you would prevent access for Emergency Services at or near a bus or tram stop or taxi rank on the approach to a level crossing/tramway crossing opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space"

Really weak or no signal just off LL all week.