PeckhamRose

Could only make the fete for an hour or so but the next day when I biked past both sides of the park I remember thinking that for a fete there was hardly any mess, and wondered had the Council cleaners been out late Sunday or early Monday. But no, it was Joe and his very wonderful co-volunteers who cleared up other people's mess. SO well done you lot and boo to the misery gutses. boosboss Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All the volunteers worked extremely hard to put on > the fete and even picked litter before leaving the > site.

Hello A relative newcomer here (tho I have just celebrated 24 years of living in my flat on Peckham Rye SE15!). I thought you may like some information and my experience. When new traffic lights were put at the north east corner of Peckham Rye a few years ago, turning right from East Dulwich Road to get to my home on peckham Rye the SE15 side, proved very dangerous indeed. I am a motorcyclist. We wrote to our councillor who was very sympathetic and made statements to the Community COuncil about it, and nobody cared. Previous to this - on invitation to all residents from Southwark Council about some long term scheme or plan for the borough where they were asking for our input - I went along to the council offices and made a detailed presentation as to how I think that replacing all traffic lights at small junctions with roundabouts and zebra crossings would make life better for us all. I believe this because if dangerous car drivers know that they will get from A-B without having to wait unnecessarily at a red light, they will get used to the idea of giving way when there is traffic. I know it's a long shot, but I believe the traffic problem is designed against users' natural instincts and forces us on fewer and fewer roads making them angrier and angrier. Anyway, the Council ignored me. Like the COmmunity Councils, these ten year plans or five year plans or schemes the council runs are just talking shops and make out like they're open to us all to justify the enormous amounts of money they get to do what THEY want to do anyway. Soooooo to cut the rest of the longer story short, the traffic lights at the bottom of Peckham Rye SE15 stay, and despite our efforts, they won't even put in a right turn filter light for our safety. As well as your previous emails above suggesting you write to councillors (who are pretty ineffective), you might care to bombard the following two people with your concerns (and mine). They are involved with street management. [email protected] [email protected] They ignored me too, but not everyone knows they email address and now you all do. If we all bombard them, they may listen. PeckhamRose