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Elphinstone's Army Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > uncleglen Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > even worse is the common practice of leaving > > expired goods on the shelves like the newsagent > in > > CPRd > > > do you mean the chrome yellow shop? > > A few people have remarked on this aberration. - I > went in one time years ago > for chocolate? and noticed this, came out empty > handed. > The shop smelt, dirty, the owner? answered a civil > question in an unpleasant manner and I have not > been in since nor will again - yet another shop I > would not be surprised or sorry to see close and > surprised frankly that it endures. The guy in the 'Yellow Shop' on Crystal Palace Road is always very friendly in my experience. It's really convenient too. I would be very upset to see it close personally.

What is really annoying is people who take up two spaces by parking 6 foot from the car behind.

worldwiser Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What I think is undeniable is that people who > actually live on a particular street should get > higher priority than commuters, shoppers, > long-term hoggers and estate agents. There are > already provisions for those with disabilities > both with dedicated spaces and more lenient rules > for other parking spaces. The only way to ensure > local people get spaces near their homes is a CPZ. > How saying that has become so controversial is > hard to understand - it works absolutely > everywhere else. I think it's a public highway and there is little point in cars if you stop them being able to drive anywhere. This idea that people have some special, exclusive right to the road outside their house is ridiculous, but has been encouraged by Councils pushing CPZs. It's effectively yet more privatisation of previously public / communal space.

monica Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The most common charges we are faced with are the > charge per transaction, its 30p per debit and 60p > per credit. Is that right? Seems extremely high. You might want to change who you're banking with.

Surely card transaction costs are just another cost of doing business nowadays, like lighting, heating, or staff wages. can't shops just factor the cost (as they do with all other overheads) into their pricing?

Hi James. Is there a reason that Lordship Lane hasn't been gritted?

How have the roads not been gritted exactly? Have Southwark not been watching the news? They really are a shower.

Lot's of snow down in Brighton

I was thinking of men's clothes shops. There is ED, but it's expensive. White Stuff is just awful for men's clothes. would be good to have somewhere else. Certainly better than a large, chain coffee shop.

I think Costa started in Lambeth too. So a South London success story. That said, I still don't think we need them on Lordship Lane. Would be good to have a clothes shop.

This has always been the problem in SE London. The rest of the Capital has public transport designed around the needs of the local community. We are only served by suburban commuter trains, which are run primarily in the interests of those travelling into Central London from Surrey and Kent. We are the only part of the Capital without Boris Bikes, without a cycle superhighway and with virtually no underground system. It's also being made more and more difficult to use private transport.

malumbu Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Loads of Pro-Brexit beer mats in WS these days. Is that true? Wow.

Yep

If true, it sounds completely ridiculous.

5 cycle superhighways - none in SE London hundreds of bike docking stations - none in SE London A couple of hundred tube stations and only 4 in SE London (outside of Zone 1) How can we get people out of their cars? I know, making driving a little more difficult will do it.

oh dear, oh dear.

.. or https://www.plotaroute.com/route/565266

try this: https://www.plotaroute.com/route/565257

I wonder how much it would cost to provide proper, secure bike parking at Brixton tube, as opposed to all the yellow line, speed bumps etc that are scattered around our area? I suspect the former would do more to reduce local car journeys than the latter ever will.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi rahrahrah, > You can see a heat map of Public Transport > Accessibility Levels (PTAL) here - > https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/urban-planning-and-con > struction/planning-with-webcat/webcat > The higher the number redder the map the more > pubic transport. > You are right that near the south circular PTAL is > much lower - those blues in Dulwich Village are in > the middle of Dulwich Park BTW. > Equally if you look to the north of London similar > heat map PTAL scores before you reach the north > circular. > > As Londondoners do we try and fix air pollution or > not. The waiting for everywhere to have high PTAL > would mean not addressing air pollution. We're > never going to have universal high PTAL scores. > > But for clarity the ULEX means Petrol cars newer > than 2006. But not all provision is equal, is it? A bus which takes an hour to get into central London, is not equal to a tube service which turns up ever few minutes and take 10 to get into the west end (for example). Personally, I would like to see some Boris bikes at least, so that one could cycle to brixton tube - or just some secure bike parking at Brixton.

There is a massive hole in the tube network over SE London. There is a massive hole in the Boris bike network over SE London. How about fixing one, or both of these things before piling on more restrictions on private transport?

redjam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't know the ins and outs of this as I wasn't > there and I agree that on face value it doesn't > seem like a very clever move to ask a mum to leave > just because her baby was crying for a short > while. > > But it's OTT to say that the Brick House's > response 'compared babies to dogs' and I think > getting on a high horse because they said they > were happy to allow breastfeeding is a bit > ridiculous. Maybe they could have phrased it > better but that seems to be wilfully taking > offence where none was meant. > > I hate these things where everyone just piles in > on Twitter/Instagram to slag off an independent > business and the hysteria gets whipped up amongst > a load of people who weren't there when the > incident happened. The Brick House may well have > done a silly thing but surely the best way to deal > with that is to complain to the manager direct and > have it out with him/her in private? I'm > old-fashioned like that... Totally agree with this. I don?t know the ins and outs either, but anyone who has visited the Brick with kids will know that they?re generally, very welcoming.

This is rather all rather meta.

Yeah, that's fair enough, except if they're bringing them to school then that does effect everyone else. I can't see any good reason for kids to have mobiles in school personally.

I?m fairly sure they don?t need a phone. It?s also arguably the case that carrying a phone makes them less safe. I would like to see all schools banning them personally.