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I have absolutely no problem with tourist attractions (and your implication that I don't like foreigners is a bizarre leap). My point is, they should not be funded from money raided from the transport budget.

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The Garden Bridge and the Dangleway both come out of the transport budget btw. Which is why Boris insists (against all good reason) that they're for commuters. Of course, they're primarily tourist attractions / follys / vanity projects (pick your preferred term) - but the money spent on them results in less to spend on actual public tranport infrastructure.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Boris Cable Car.. Boris Johnson's 'pitiful' > ?60m cable car used by just four regular > commuters.. ...latest I read that had dropped to zero ( http://853blog.com/2014/12/16/emirates-air-line-cable-car-now-has-no-regular-commuters/ ). I can't find the reference now, but I heard that for the price of developing and rolling out the small number of 'Boris Buses', TFL could have made the entire bus fleet hybrid. (edited several times because I couldn't get link to work)

tomdhu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > rahrahrah: what is the cost of a Boris Bus > > compared to a normal double decker? > > The cost of a Boris bus is ?353,000 compared to > around ?200,000 for a regular double deck bus. > > The difference is as a result of such items as > triple entrances/exits, air-conditioning nd a > whole lot of fancy frills. Plus the development costs. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19605280

The 'Boris Vanity Buses' are rubbish and cost the earth. The price, along with that of the Dangleway vanity project, garden bridge vanity project and northern line diversion (into an overseas property portfolio), could together have funded some high frequency metro services in the SE of London.

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How awful, your poor daughter. I really hope she's OK, it must have been really traumatic. Those dogs sound really dangerous, I hope the owner is found.

Beards are a thing everywhere though, and not exactly a 'country living' type thing.

Really sorry about this, it's fecking outrageous. Hope the police catch them.

Gut Rocking Comedy is on at the EDT. Sean Hughes playing there later this month: https://www.facebook.com/GutRockingComedyClubAtEastDulwichTavern

Must admit, I hadn't clocked the wippet thing - will look out for them. Definitely a notable rise in Barbour jackets, hunters and 4X4 s over the last 10 years though.

I love watching the 'plate dance' at a Toby Carvery.

Bob Stanley on the danger of confusing musical inspiration with appropriation: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/11/blurred-lines-musical-inspiration-pharrell-williams-marvin-gaye

A Boris bike has already been pictured in Gambia: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ways-a-boris-bike-could-have-ended-up-in-the-gambia#.pmaVEoLk2

Most pop songs seem to be secondary to the accompanying softcore videos, featuring gyrating, barely-clad women. I blame MTV. ;-)

I like Nandos, but it never really fills me up. And the chips are rubbish. Basically, I just really like the sauce.

I think Vic and Bob used to drink in The Grove too (on Camberwell Grove)

I quite like GBK. Their burgers taste good. They may not be striving to 'push the boundaries of burgerology', but then it is only a hamburger and a theirs is perfectly satisfying.

If they travel far enough, they will eventually end up at a North London docking station.

Rocket Van & Box shop has a good coffee gaff / cafe attached, hidden just behind the Walworth Road.

It would be great just for cycling to Peckham Rye Station, Brixton or Oval tube, or just to the shops. We're in a densely populated area, with no high frequency tube or train service (and very slow buses). It's the perfect location for a short hire, point to point bike scheme IMO.

I'm really liking Better Call Saul - surprised there hasn't been more hype around it. Always a bit dubious about spin offs from popular shows, but it definitely stands up in it's own right IMO.

Sorry to hear this. It's a real problem on the area at the moment. Hope they manage to find the thieves.

It would be so simple to produce vehicles which were restricted to the speed limit with the use of technology. And it doesn't have to report on your driving to insures / employers etc, in order to restrict your speed. There is no good reason why new cars shouldn't include technology to prevent speeding - but the truth is, people wouldn't accept it.. because they like to have the freedom to drive fast.