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Him and Rebecca have to make it to the final surely.

That's usually the outside lane tho isn't it. Speeding drivers do get caught and I think eventually the gatso average speed camera will be rolled out on the motorways (there's already ANPR covering all of them).

Boris before the May elections halved their budget. Exactly James. I can give a very good example of why attendance at meetings makes a difference. Last week at the meeting there were two members of the public representing the residents of Friern Road. Friern Road has a problem at the moment with traffic for the school. Simon Philips claimed a survey had been done and there seemed to be no problem. It turned out the survey was done before the school opened and the two residents had video footage showing the type of problem, the damage to cars as a result and so on. If those two hadn't come to that meeting, and been persistent, it would now not be on the agenda for a further investigation. There would no correspondance with the school to assess the impact of traffic and so on and it would probably would have taken for things to get a whole lot worse before Simon Philips would have accepted that the problem needed investigating. Meetings demand immediate responses and often commit the council officials to some kind of follow up action. Letters and phonecalls don't.

Junctions of East Dulwich Road and Peckham Rye and Nunhead Lane and Peckham Rye for a start. Grove Vale. Which is why those juctions are part of the coming round of schemes. Have you ever been to a sub committee meeting Narnia? All the people that make these decisions on what road schemes are formed and done are there.

A good time time to see that is when driving at night on motorways. The inside lane has little traffic but there's always someone staying in the middle lane. I even once saw a middle lane hogger on an empty motorway....I was in the inside lane and had to pull out to the outside lane to overtake him....idiots....

Narnia, I cycle and I drive (for 18 years now) and I ride a motorcycle.....I think we can safely say I know about the rules of the road :) The highway code clearly states that the middle lane and outside lanes are for overtaking only.

So you don't know the highway code then and that kind of arrogance is an accident waiting to happen I'm afraid......

You have made lots of posts and hope you intend to do something as I remember don't you live on this road? What a sarcastic post. I already attend a lot of meetings and do more than my fair share for local issues. I'm trying to be helpful. James alone will not be enough I'm afraid because whether you like it or not this juction is not one of the highest for accidents in the area. You can write all the letters you like, it won't change that fact. Face to face action is the only way you will get anything done. Find some time, get a group of residents together, ask for it to be added to a CC meeting agenda and attend the next transport sub committee meeting.

Here we go again.....what song will Wagner murder tonight? lol

surely the slow lane is for under confident drivers doing less than the speed limit Err NO..as someone said above READ the highway code (unless of course you are trolling). If you don't know that rule goodness knows what other rules of the road you ignore which makes you an usafe driver I'm afraid.

I posted above how you need to go about getting something done. Posting on here remonstrating is not going to make it happen. I think realistically if anything is to be done you need to get it onto the Community Council agenda and force the issue now because road planning for the next round of TFL funding (which are schemes for the next two years) is happening NOW. Simon Philips in Transport Planning at Southwark might also be a starting point ([email protected]). He will certainly be able to provide data on that or any junction. That's what you need to do. Transport planning responds to data, unless a case is made for something not on the radar, because there are other junctions that have higher accident rates....and some of those junctions are now part of the two year funding application to tfl. That application isn't set in stone yet but it's no good waiting. The council do not have enough money to do all the work people would like....and those that ask most are the ones that get I'm afraid. Go to the CC...get involved with sub committee transport planning.

When I click that link I get this site: http://intoxicologist.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/media-release-admiral-imports-appointed-exclusive-importer-of-antica-sambuca/ Are you sure you c&p'd the right page when you made the link? And what were you doing looking at a Sambucca sight? Checking to see if our wind up that black sambucca was stronger than white was really a wind up?

I guess the nearest dedicated music venue would be the Brixton Academy...maybe that is the distinction the OP is making as opposed to live music nights in pubs and working mans clubs...of which thare are oodles of all kinds of musical taste in ED (and all well attended). But where would you find a venue like the Brixton Academy in ED?.....and it would take a wider audience than that of ED to fill it I think. I like 'big' venue gigs.....so the Academy is near enough for me to find those kinds of nights.

If the ConDems hadn't cut the road safety budget then speed cameras might have been an affordable option....but you get what you vote for I suppose.

PMSL....that's a page about the import of Sambucca lol

Motorway driving is not part of driving lessons or the test but rules of the motorway ARE in the highway code and everyone is supposed them to know at the time of taking a test. There was a big ad campaign in the 70's and early 80's telling drivers how to use the motorway (anyone remember that?). There's no excuse for not knowing what the rules of motorway driving are. Tail-gating and lane bullying though is just as bad. I'm one of those drivers that always leaves the two second gap between me and the driver in front. Other drivers then come up behind me having decided I should close the gap - wtf for?...so I can die on the million to one day when something happens in front of me? So that they can get somewhere 1 second faster? Motorways are the safest roads statistically, but pile ups always happen because drivers don't keep big enough breaking distance between them and the car in front....a distance that would make overtaking easier too as it leaves adaquate space for vehicles to change lanes. People forget a car is just an engine sitting on a tank of highly inflamable liquid. Would we drive our cars in such risky ways if we had an unexploded bomb on the passenger seat? It's all in the head.

I think that is the case, unless it can be shown that someone was speeding or driving wrecklessly (i.e. something that the Police can prosecute). It's like the scenario where someone brakes in front of you and you go into the back of them. You are always at fault for not leaving enough braking distance. They don't need a reason for braking.

Did the Police decide that the other driver was at fault? The accident above didn't look like any kind of maniac driving (so not speed related). Just poor judgement when pulling out of the junction.

Yes I would get the plumber back (at no charge). It's most likely turned off from the outside, or if you follow the main water pipes you will find a tap in the cellar just inside the external wall. If you do find a stop tap to turn on, when you've opened it fully, close it again with a quarter of a turn (it stop's the tap seizing).

And I would also add that direct face to face consultation is always more likely to yeild results than informal phonecalls or even letter writing. So it is important that someone turns up to meetings.

I also think that for some drivers, they forget they are entering onto a main B road. What I mean by that is that it affects judgement of breaking distance and speed of vehicles on the main road itself. If turning onto a residential road for example, most drivers are going slower on residential roads and so the driver turning onto it judges by that. Barry Raod is NOT a residential road in traffic terms. It's a main B-Road. I think personally that some drivers just don't take the extra care needed nor judge the correct distance required for them to pull out safely. Most of the parking on Barry Road is recessed, so the obstruction to view isn't actually worse than many roads with non-recessed parking. Any measures to make the junction safer are really going to be measures to make poor drivers less of a liability than actually reflecting any fault with the junction itself. But that's doesn't mean of course, measures shouldn't be taken. I am also assuming that the pedestrian crossing was put there for a specific reason, and problems at that junction may well have been that reason.

It's not the 'we ate West Ham' one is it?

HA HA....naughty Narnia! lol....

If the water stopped running without you doing anything then the problem won't be the main stop tap. Are you in a flat or house?

Some very good points there, and all of them valid. Trees also obsure view. I think realistically if anything is to be done you need to get it onto the Community Council agenda and force the issue now because road planning for the next round of TFL funding (which are schemes for the next two years) is happening NOW. Simon Philips in Transport Planning at Southwark might also be a starting point ([email protected]). He will certainly be able to provide data on that or any junction.