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Is it not reputedly built on the site from where Boudicca launched her attack on Londinium?

Malumbu - I think you are stepping over the mark now. Making suggestions about how someone can manage their mental health. Honestly, get over yourself or do everyone a favour and lounge yourself again - I am afraid your contributions are adding no value here. i think you should remove both the posts you made this evening about mental health - it’s not necessary, is incredibly passive aggressive and you should not stoop to those levels.

I believe so yes - I only heard about it from a friend who has a child at the school - they have always had a problem but apparently it has got particularly bad. It seems bikes are the chosen mode of transport for muggers nowadays; they can cover a large area, approach people quickly and quietly, maintain the element of surprise, strike and then make a quick escape with little chance of being caught.

Yeah, turn your back for 20 years and those blighters appear overnight! 😉

Can anyone work out which trees these are as the area susceptible to flooding seems to be the area near the Totem Pole near East Dulwich Road but the proposals seem to suggest work all down the side of the park along Forest Hill Road? Maybe this is what the Gala money is being put towards....;-)

Is it just me or does it look like someone has been tidying them up as there don't seem to be as many around as there was a week or so ago? Although whomever placed 8-10 of them on the pavement in front of the bus stop outside the Post Office on Lordship Lane when the e-cycle parking bay opposite had space really needs to give it more thought.....

BBC giving this some attention in relation to Brockwell Park events (from around 3 minutes 50 in this clip https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mqk7/bbc-london-late-news-06062023) and here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c038l8n6ydpo It does seem that residents are being cast aside in the quest for revenue and I suspect the model/scale seen in Brockwell Park is, aspirationally where Southwark probably want to get to for Peckham Rye. The Brockwell Park disruption is on a different scale to Peckham Rye or Dulwich Park and is definitely something that should be avoided - let's hope the council take heed! It would be interesting to know just how much money gets put back into Brockwell Park following those events as I seem to remember, and I might be wrong, that very little, if any, money goes back to Peckham Rye following Gala - didn't the Friends of Peckham Rye kick up a stink about it?

Unfortunately there has been a spate of muggings of Charter North kids in the vicinity of the school as the kids leave for the day.

The way Pub in the Park is positioned the noise tends to travel away from Dulwich up towards Sydenham Hill so it impacts fewer homes. But as Ex- says good luck to anyone happy enough to pay those prices to get in for a 4-hour afternoon or evening session and then get fleeced for "artisan" food and drink. I don't know anyone who has been who is willing to repeat the experience and it's very reflective of the way Dulwich is changing (and not necessarily for the better). If you want to listen to the music head to the Sainsbury's at the Plough, grab a bottle of something and some nibbles and plonk yourselves in the park near the cafe and save yourself a fortune!

I am still laughing heartily after reading this tweet from Peter Walker.....somewhat hypocritical from someone who has been dining out for years on non-peer reviewed LTN and active travel reports written by people who have a vested-interest......glass houses and all that....

DKHB if you had bothered to read the letter from Southwark you would see that the max limit would be 499 people....so quiet an exclusive rave then! 😉 It seems the council are trying to cover a lot of bases with their application as it covers trade stalls etc. Interested to know who they have distributed this to as we live near there and have not had it.

Northern - so how does closing the section from of Turney from the DV junction to Burbage help that - because the traffic doesn't come from there does it? Therein lies the problem with the ludicrous suggestion to spend £1.8m closing part of the road that didn't need closing (when clearly the council had not done the required due diligence)....and now any sensible discussion about roads that people feel do need better infrastructure are pointless because we can't take council proposals seriously due to how flawed proposals like Turney have been and I suspect no-one in the council will have the appetite to put their name to future proposals given the embarrassing failure of the Turney closures. I can't help but think that Cllr Rose's departure is somehow linked to this debacle.

And interesting to see that the council is considering submitting plans to run up to 15 events a year at the Calton/Dulwich Village junction. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee5b2552f1141316ee2efc9/t/647dc04661692b29f2d7ee3e/1685962823274/Calton+Avenue+S16+Consultation+Letter.pdf

Rollflick - Turney Road is already a quiet road with significant amounts of cycle infrastructure already in place - perhaps let me turn the question back to you and ask why you think it is not a good road to cycle down. I am more than happy to cycle my children down there now and let them cycle to the velodrome on their own - and in my mind Turney Road doesn't need additional investment (and to suggest spending £1.8m of tax-payers money on that councillor vanity project was a joke), there are other roads that are for more needy - it is also interesting to see that there seems to be two types of cyclists using the DV junction - those that turn left along Dulwich Village - usually full kit wallies heading off to Sydenham Hill and beyond - and children cycling to Dulwich Hamlet - only a few head along Turney. My position from the beginning has been that Turney didn't need closing but unfortunately the council got seduced by the pro-cycling lobby that convinced them that the only way to increase cycling is to close roads - which is an utter nonsense.

Does the council have any mechanism to collate resident's complaints about the discarded bikes - it does seem as if the council has opened the floodgates and is doing little to monitor the negative impacts of the schemes? Perhaps someone who lives in Cllr McAsh's ward can bring it up to him via email and get his response as I am sure this falls under his remit in his new council role and as he spends time in East Dulwich he can't have not noticed the challenges the bikes are creating and how bad the problem has become in the last few weeks.

It seems Southwark isn't the only council grappling with how to make money whilst keeping residents happy. The weeks of activities in Brockwell Park seems to be the model Southwark want to adopt but at what cost to local residents: https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2023/06/lambeth-lib-dems-call-for-transparency-following-brockwell-live-festival-complaints/

Isn't that the Guardian's role!? 😉

Surely Lime need to be forced to place the bikes in the parking bays if they are placing them? Just randomly dumping them on streets doesn't mean anyone will actually use them - it seems to be a case of them trying to create a market by flooding the streets with them. Interesting that you hear so many bikes being used that have been jacked and are being used illegally - that clicking noise from the back wheel is the giveaway.

Rollflick - if you are correct about your assertion that this was rejected because Southwark bid more for this single project than for all the rest of schemes across the borough - then does that not ring alarm bells? Are our councillors out of touch with reality? Were they not then trying to splurge public money on placating the cycle voices? Or was this part of the bigger war being raged between our councillors and TFL following fallout from the allegations of bad treatment of TFL staff by council officials? It made no sense closing Turney Road to create a cycle route - and that is ultimately why it failed - because you don't have to close roads to create safe cycling routes but many in the pro-cycle lobby, and the councillors, have become so obsessed with that notion that it is their go-to position and they can think of nothing else. Turney Road is a quiet road, even at it's busiest and this is why so many people were shocked when the council suggested it needed closing and really exposes their lack of lateral thinking and hopefully signals an end of their blinkered, cycle-centric , view towards transport policy and policies.

My,..who did he upset in Southwark Labour to get that poison-chalice! All joking aside, and I might have this wrong, but wasn't he was a Green Party member before turning to Labour so probably aligned with his values?

....as much credibility as your claim that: When it actually comes down to cold, hard numbers, not warm, soft anecdotes, cyclists are actually more law abiding than cars. How you try an turn your incorrect and unsubstantiated claim back onto me by saying I have no data to retort and disprove your false claim is laughable and demonstrates you seem to be here for an argument rather than to engage in any sot of dialogue. You're becoming ever so Manatee/LTNBooHoo'esque in some of your posts.

Just to clarify for you Danish cyclists have been found to be more law-abiding....you're quoting cold hard number from Denmark..... Bottom-line is I don't to be hit by a car, lorry or bike. Just because being hit by a bike might not kill you as easy as it is for a car to do so doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to cyclists rule breaking and putting other road users (and themselves) at risk. It's a big problem right now. I don't know about anyone else but I see far more cyclists breaking rules than I do drivers now and that is where I think Barby's videos really show the extent of the problem. Just go and spend 10 minutes at the DV junction on a Sunday morning to see for yourselves....the new Highway Code says cyclists need to give way to pedestrians yet the number of times I have seen lycra-clad Tour de France wannabes shouting at kids and adults to get out of the way at that junction is amazing.

Eynella is like a Lime bike graveyard this morning.....

It wasn't - they went out of their way to make sure it wasn't as they were terrified they were going to lose their seats over it - not a single flyer that dropped through our door even made reference to it. Also do you remember when they did things like extend the consultation deadline and then sent hit squads to doors of Labour supporters around Dulwich to try to drum up support and remember when I overheard a councillor meeting in a cafe on Lordship Lane ahead of the elections and Cllr McAsh et al were hearing about a database they had access to to target "weak" Labour voters (they said they could break the database down by sex, ethnicity, annual income etc) who they could then "encourage" to get out and vote such was their concern. Nice to know that if you got the knock the party considered you weak! 😉

Here's what I said back in March to counter the "a bike once killed someone" nonsense we hear in defence of bad cycling. Every few days Barby posts a rogue's gallery of bad parking and driving but also bad cycling and it shows the scale of the problem. And anytime any cyclists are involved in an accident the narrative is always how bad the car driver must be...but when you look at some of the cycling shown in his videos is it any surprise there are collisions and I do wonder how many of them are actual driver fault accidents? Some of the usual suspects can be seen on the Dulwich roads acting like the rules of the road don't apply to them - what is it about cargo bikes that makes people think they are invincible? Those who say they never see this type of thing are obviously trying to convince themselves that this is not an issue - go grab a coffee in Au Ciel or grab a plate of cheese and a glass of wine at the cheesemongers and just sit and watch for a few minutes and ask yourself if cyclists at the DV junction are: 1) being mindful of pedestrians or 2) obeying the rules of the road. They're not but people are expected to turn a blind eye because...well they're cyclists.....and somehow the rules don't apply to them. And I like to consider myself a considerate cyclist and the majority are now giving us a bad name - it's no wonder people dislike us so much!