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Those may well be factors in making any junction tricky to cross and probably the only guaranteed solution would be to install traffic lights. The process to do that though is neither quick nor cheap.

The car has driven out in front of a bus (and looking at the damage, from the junction at the other side of the road, meaning the car zoomed out rather than edging out to check the way was clear).....Buses are one of the highest, biggest and most visible vehicles on the road. I think we can defintely put that one down to driver error rather than the fault of the junction. The damage looks bad because buses are made of galvanised steel. Their frames don't crumple so the damage they cause to other vehicles, railings etc is greater than for other vehicles with the same impact. There's nothing the council can do about poor drivers (who are the cause of most accidents after all).

But the graduates on low incomes will be repaying a bigger tuition fee anyway so there's nothing progressive about the rise itself. And whilst the repayment structure in how it's linked to repayments might well make it more expensive for those on better incomes it doesn't change the fact that many young people, will just be put off at the prospect of having a ?36K plus debt from the age of 22.

Oh yes...Disneyland University lol >:D< When you say the new tution fees are progressive, how are they progressive?

I think it's just a media rouse by the journo to push local house prices up....she/he probably owns one and is trying to sell >:D

You only had to pay LM because by that time the means testing of students had stopped. Under the system I went to university under you would have qualified as a first time mature student (after having done a one year access course) and would have received (depending on your means) a full maintenance grant and full tuition fees. And to add that under that system only reputable courses/ colleges/ polytechs and Unis were certified for the funding. So there is no way that a mickey mouse course or college could set up and get students apart from those able to pay the full costs.

I think any support of the tuition fee rises is an antithesis to the title of this thread.

In America where there are high tuition fees the result has been a two tier system where the more affluent go to the better universities and the poorer end up at the cheaper less achieving universities (in other words your degree is worth what you pay for it). Is that really what we want here? Where the outrageous gap between public and state school provision is mirrored in adult education too?

Good...cause I gave him the katz and still have the biological single whore mother parent lol....(but no she is not receiving benefits) :))

Loz you bad'un ;-) All of the following contain iron Marie Almonds Apricots Bagel Baked beans Black beans Black-eyed peas Broccoli, raw Dates Kidney beans Lentils Lima beans Macaroni Molasses Oatmeal Peas Pinto beans Prune juice Raisins Rice Soybeans Spaghetti Spinach Spinach is my favourite....could eat that all day.

I can do cheesy pop!

What road are you in again cate (if you don't mind saying that is?)

How frustrating to think he almost got caught.

I agree that consultation should be far better publicised. At the moment it goes out via community groups, which is great if you are connected to one, not great if you are not. The southwark website does though list everything under consultation but it's such a big site that it can be difficult to navigate around. One thing I pointed out at a CC meeting was that we also need more clarity on how the decisions that are made following consultations are made too. I would favour the publication of ALL minutes of ALL council meetings for example. Also last night we saw a draft plans for a scheme for the very north end of Peckham Rye. Right away I noticed it included narrowing a piece of road that was widened years ago because of the traffic issues it caused (and it solved them). The designer of course doesn't know this (he hasn't lived in the areas for 20 years like I have). He's had what he thinks is a nice pedestrian friendly idea, but is ignorant of the history of road improvements there over the years. I know I will have to do far more than turn up at a sub-committee meeting to make sure this aspect of the plan is changed, if we are to avoid recreating the problem that existed before only 12 months later to see the council waste further money reversing it. But you are right....it's shouldn't be up to the public to point these things out.

Or do we eat the fly as well?

I love Sydenham Woods....

That gives me a very good question to ask. Moths....for those that have a problem with them, they eat everything. So people use whatever method to kill them off. Do they have a right to live? It's a good question in relation to any kind of infestation. On another point I saw an article in the paper describing that male chicks are killed because they don't lay eggs (including free range ones). They are literally put onto a conveyor belt alive which runs into a gassing chamber and they drop out of the end of that dead. What happens to them afterwards I don't know but it certainly brought a distaste to my mind.

I think what frustrates me is when people say 'there's no point complaining/ or consulting because nothing ever changes or is done anyway'. We have the processes and beurocrasy we have because we accept it (we ARE a nation of compainants/ not activists). These things can be changed but it requires lobbying of those we vote into power to take on board the changes we want to see and force them to represent them in return for our vote. Because of apathy we have a culture where the officials come to us and say this is what we propose, or this is our policy/ manifesto - and we either agree or we don't. If we want to change anything we need to reverse that flow of ideas. WE should be telling the political parties what they stand for/ what policy they should adopt.....at present we don't. So whilst a person may think that going to a transport meeting doesn't change anything (and I'll agree sometimes it doesn't) going to meetings will in the long run change the power shift from officials to public lobbying. After all, if a room only contains ten people, it places a different emphasis on suggestions, compared to a room of 100. Councillor Edwards said something very true last night, that 'Only those that keep asking get anywhere'. In the present climate that is going to be truer than ever.

Yeah the article asks 'IS THIS the best high Street in London'. It doesn't say it is the best high street. I can think of many better high streets in London for lot's of reasons.

Arbitration is the best route......and probably the result will be 11/13 with a provision to review after 12 months (and revert back if necessary). And yes, Coleman and the LFB would do best to be humble at this stage. Ego on both sides has definitely driven some of the dispute. Now it's time for good will. Thank you for providing such a stimulating thread Moflo. And I hope the outcome is one that both sides can be happy with.

You might be right on that.....

My cat killed a mouse last night I bred a monster! Was it Hector (or is it Dylan?) or Florence? I'll bet it was Florence!

Be careful what you wish for ;-)

The junction box was put in to solve the problem of traffic blocking the North/ South traffic route so removing it isn't an option and I agree that filter lights for turning right are the only solution, but it will take a year to make that happen and only if TFL agree......but it still is something that should be pushed for in drawing up the plans.

Been watching the X-Rated stuff again Scarlet? You know they are not real lesbians right? lol