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I know it's a small thing, but I'm not a fan of the new signage.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kanella & Co. Is this place actually open?

Please can we not use the phrase 'virtue signalling'.

Clearly being an MP is far from a full time job. How on earth this could be seen as anything other than a massive conflict of interest I don't know.

James Barber ousts May on a populist wave, driven by a promise to reinstate weekly bin collections. He promptly makes it illegal to stop and park a car once it's in motion, leading to thousands becoming locked into circling the M25 until they fall dead at the wheel.

It would make perfect sense. Which is why it probably won't happen. Anything which reduces the profits of developers is likely to be resisted. After all that's what are taxes are for right? Lining the pockets of private companies.

An hour and three quarters:

Thanks for pointing out my legs, I had no idea. Just think, all these years we've been investing in public transport unnecessarily. If only people had been told about this 'walking' thing earlier we could have saved millions.

This forum, for all it's foibles is pretty great local resource - so yes, a big thank you to the EDF team generally.

There is something in that quids. A tube can change the character of an area.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Everyone is aware of the existence of walking > and > > cycling. It's irrelevant to a discussion about > > whether or not public transport is adequate > > however. > > Why is it not relevant, on a thread which was > started by someone saying they were thinking of > moving out of ED because they were sick of the > poor transport links, to point out that there are > alternative means of transport available? The OP > has fully joined in that discussion...there seems > to be a form of Godwin's law on the EDF that a > thread can't get past a certain length before > someone feels it incumbent upon them to complain > about going off topic. It's a discussion board, > discussions develop! That's kind of true, but I'm assuming that someone thinking of leaving the area due to bad public transport, values public transport. The fact that walking and cycling exist cannot have escaped anyone's attention, but clearly despite this, the OP would still like to live in an area where there are decent public transport options.

Everyone is aware of the existence of walking and cycling. It's irrelevant to a discussion about whether or not public transport is adequate however.

The bottom line is that the trains have got busier, more expensive, less reliable and slower over the last decade. That shouldn't be acceptable and people are right to criticise it. To fire back with a glib 'leave earlier', is unhelpful. Clearly, people do find alternative ways into work, but often at great disruption or inconvenience (particularly in relation to childcare) and they shouldn't have to. Telling people to 'get a bike' fails to hold our elected representatives and the train companies to account for their failures. This is a wealthy city and should have a decent, world class transport system.

I really wouldn't take any notice of anything published in the Sun.

SLad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I want to meet this cat: > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2 > 8,1796339 Love it

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I get that you'd have liked to to Camberwell, but > this thread is just sour grapes. > > Plus anyone arguing that Peckham isn't well served > by trains are crazy imo. Look, I doubt I'd have even used an extension to Camberwell particularly. But residents there been campaigning for a bakerloo line extension for decades and the possibility has been dangled in front of them a number of times. It's a massively under served town centre which should have been first on the list for any future extension IMO. Instead, once again (as with the northern line), loads of public money is going to dissapear into a development of 'luxury flats'. See who will end up profiting. It's not going to benefit the local community, it's going to benefit overseas investors and developers.

I like the area a lot. The transport has never been amazing, but like people have said, that's what's kept prices 'relatively' low. But the service hasn't remained static, it has deteriorated. The same is true in Camberwell, where I also lived for many years and which really should have got a tube extension (they've been campaigning hard for decades). I find two things really frustrating - firstly the government's complete inability to deal with the omnishambles that is Southern Trains (and their reneging on promises to transfer to TFL for purely political reasons) and secondly the policy of only extending the tube network into low population areas, effectively a bung to developers of 'luxury' flats.

At nearly 9, banging on the door when the kids have just gone down. Seriously, I will stop any payments to charities who do this, it's fecking unreasonable. [rant ends]

Basically this:

Get a lever, attached by string to a pulley on a weighted arm. Balanced on one end of the arm should be a bowling ball with an angled ramp at the bottom of which should be an old boot attached to a piece of string suspended on a central pole. At a 90 degree angle to the boot should be some large 'garden sized' jenga bricks arranged in a domino formation snaking around the front garden. Just with reach of the where the last of the jenga bricks will fall upon triggering the 'trap' should be a large comedy honking horn (the type clowns use). This is probably the simplest way to deter foxes.

The Elephant generally, seems to flow better since they closed one side of the roundabout.

Naively perhaps, I'm hoping for this summer.

It was a nice place to stop off on the way back from the Park, although I didn't go there often. Would like it to reopen in time for the summer.

I find it infuriating. Often see dogs running through the flower beds. Children picking flowers less so, but that too occasionally. So selfish.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/14/battersea-nine-elms-property-development-housing