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Although that raises another good improvement that could be made locally - secure bike parking at Brixton tube. Never understood why it wasn't included as part of the plans when they did the station up several years ago. Finsbury Park at the other end of the Victoria line has a great facility.

I'm not sure they are necessarily going against the wishes of local residents (at least not the silent majority). There are often very noisy objections to attempts to rebalance the use of public space (to loosen the stranglehold of private cars dominating almost everywhere), but the majority of the Borough's residents do not have access to a car. There is a culture amongst many that assumes giving over say 80%+ of all public space to cars is the natural order, and not a choice, just as much as it is to widen pavements, create nicer pedestrian areas, or create space for people using a bicycle. I don't believe they spend very much on these schemes in terms of the total budget. Often they're self funding, and / or come with additional funding from either central government or the London authority. Can't find any evidence that they do you zero based budgeting though: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/about-council/how-council-works/budgets-and-spending

Fair enough. At least you've tried. I'm surprised they haven't responded. Usually, they come back pretty quickly.

You can say “I can’t find something on the website, it’s a conspiracy”, or you can email and ask them to provide the info you’re after. I know which is more constructive. But I guess it comes down to what you actually want to achieve. Claiming information doesn’t exist, or is being deliberately withheld without making any effort to look, or ask te right people is a repeated pattern and it’s a bit ridiculous.

Why don’t you email the council?

Have you ever tried emailing the council when you want to find something, rather than posting in here about how it’s some sort of conspiracy? Yes, website are updated, but whenever I have emailed the council asking for info, they’ve always provided it

hmmm... Maybe have a word with the person who took the thread off track, and keeps taking it off track. Again, happy to keep to topic, but not to give people a free pass to say anything they like when they fail to do so.

You may hate it, but that doesn't mean it's universally hated. I would bet that it is a very small minority of people who support the square being removed and replace with a lane of queuing cars. I didn't say that the handful of people who have been absolutely obsessed for more than 5 years about a 2 minute diversion from Townley Road to the Village, will ever accept it. In fact I think I said that the 'hatred' you talk about is bordering on pathological; which suggests the opposite. What I did say is that there is zero chance of it being reversed due to a legal challenge. There are no grounds for a legal challenge.

What are the benefits to pedestrians? Of a zebra crossing and larger pedestrian area? I guess if you flip the question it might help - is it better for pedestrians to have less space and fewer safe crossing points?

I don't make cakes, but happy to eat them if you need someone?

What about the upstairs of the EDT? Is it possible to reserve an area?

Sam99p on Walworth road has been undercutting them for some time now.

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You are living in a fantasy world if you think that the changes to road layout made half a decade ago in the Village are going to somehow be overturned through a legal challenge. By who, and on what grounds exactly? It's pathological.

Lock it outside the Ritzy. Well overlooked spot, lot's of parking

There is plenty of room for a segregated lane and it would link to the Railton Road LTN, and onwards to Brixton tube.

I would love to see the 'Southwark spine' turned in to a proper, safe, south / north corridor. The worst parts of that route currently are the crossing with Peckham Road travelling North to south, and Crystal Palace Road - which is too narrow (cars get impatient, especially travelling up the hill, and make dangerous / close passes). The turn off of Chadwick Road to Lyndhurst Road is super dangerous. Many cars plough through that turn, whilst the bike lane curves round to the right. There have been a lot of collisions there.

Glad everyone had fun; Sorry to have missed it. If I can, I'll try to make the next one. Well done for organising Sue.

Not in Ed, but I was in NE England over the weekend and saw an otter in the wild! Never seen one before, it was quite lovely.

As Mal says, we're going to undergo huge changes in the labour market over the next 5 years as a result of AI. Driverless cars are probably the least of our worries. Might be time to get a trade!

You want your friend to be able to make comments and not be challenged? Ask Rockets not to take things off topic if it bothers you. Don’t ask that he be immune from challenge when making disingenuous and / or misleading comments. I’ve never said they’re a panacea. You’ve offered no evidence that they’re increasing pollution. None. It’s amazing that you expect people to take your ‘concern’ that Lime bikes are damaging the environment seriously whilst having nothing to say about short journeys being undertaken by car (on any measure a far more polluting option). The cognitive dissonance must be overwhelming. The irony. So you’re are Ok to talk about Lime bikes, in ways that are both misleading and disingenuous, but anyone who responds or corrects you is taking the thread off topic. Do you actually hear yourself?

Because they posted it on this thread. Why not address this to Rockets? I did not bring it up.

I’ve directly addressed the points they’ve made. Ask them not to make points about e-bikes or the council tax paid by motorists ‘without discount’, if you think they’re taking things off topic. Don’t ask that people not be challenged on things they’ve said.

It has less environmental impact (Which you’re pretending to be really concerned about remember), and active travel is better for health. Nope. This is a concept you regularly appear to struggle with. There are not just a fixed number of journeys that people make without choice. I have literally given you an example of one scenario, but there are many. Different available transport options open up different opportunities, or reduce ‘friction’ leading to different decisions. A well documented example of this is induced demand following the creation of. Anew road for example. So again. Explain why you’re concerned about the pollution caused by short journeys taken by e-bike, but not by car? Doesn’t seem like common sense. Seems massively disingenuous. Presumably including car.

Tell that to people who wanted to make points about council tax levied on motorists ‘without discounts’ and those wanting to express concern about the environmental impact of electric bikes whilst consistently minimising the impact of car journeys / objecting to any suggestion that is a problem. If one is going to make such points, it is not reasonable to expect them to be accepted without comment or challenge.