Earl Aelfheah

I may be wrong, but I think the Dft report only quotes numbers on cycling nationally. It doesn't really comment on cycling in London. The Tfl report is (naturally) about London specifically, and suggests that cycling is up 40% on pre-pandemic numbers. Still, for those who would ignore the evidence of their own eyes and claim that cycling in London has not boomed over the last couple of decades, the Dft report is something to latch on to I guess.

This will be very popular I imagine. Surprised there hasn't been a bubble tea place open up before now tbh.

The dft report is based on survey data, also more than a year old. Apparently this is ‘good data’, but measures comparing actual trips made at two similar periods a year apart is ‘bad data’. 🤔 More importantly, the DFT report actually shows a steady increase in cycling over time. How exactly? The number of people cycling in central London has more than doubled since 2000 and cyclists now out number motorists in the City. Despite fewer workers commuting daily into central London, cycling is up on pre-pandemic levels. If you don’t want to believe TfL, then use the evidence of your own eyes. Anyone who travels into Central London during the rush hour will tell you how many more cyclists there are now to say a decade ago. The determination of a few on here to constantly push back on any active travel measures, is just bizarre to me.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2022/november/new-tfl-data-shows-continued-boom-in-walking-and-cycling-with-almost-twice-as-many-now-living-near-a-high-quality-cycle-route

Numbers aren't going down Rocket. Cycling in London has boomed over the last couple of decades. It's the main mode of transport now in the City, and across the capital it's up 40% on pre-pandemic levels. If (as you claim) you cycle into town every day, you'll see yourself how many cyclists there are, especially at peak rush hour. On many of the main, segregated cycle routes (such as the one over Blackfriars bridge), there is actually bike congestion!

Wow, sorry to hear about this. Sounds like a traumatic experience. I hope you're OK.

They're the only place doing burritos on the lane. It's great to have a non pizza / curry option. The quality is good. Yes, they're a chain, but I suspect the rents make that kind of inevitable.

'Aggressive cycling' lol. Not sure it's people travelling under their own steam by bicycle who seriously kill or injure 30,000 people each year. Rockets is relentlessly against any scheme which seeks to reduce car use / makes roads safer. If you want faster buses, you need to reduce on street parking, and bring in measures to disincentive / counteract the massive growth in vehicle sizes (not just fill up side streets with more cars). You're so obviously stuck down an 'anti-bicycle' Twitter rabbit hole. Try and climb out for crying out loud. People travelling by bicycle is a good thing, we should encourage it.

Oru does good sandwiches A little further away - Mondo Sando and Grove Lane deli in Camberwell are good

It's a good edition to the Lane imo. They need to speed up service at lunch times, but I guess they're still training up staff. Didn't see any cops, lithe or otherwise.

Not ED, but Forza Wine (originally of Peckham and then Camberwell too) has just opened up another venue at the National Theatre on the Southbank, with a terrace overlooking the river. It's good to see a local business doing well. It also adds a £1 to the bill to raise money for the SE15 Solidarity Fund.

Greater exploitation doesn't increase productivity (quite the opposite), but is can increase profit. He wants higher unemployment so that he can exploit desperate people for his own enrichment. He sounds like a typical Tory.

I think it would probably be cheaper to build from scratch. Would be amazing to have a local lido again, but I would be very surprised if the council were able to find the money for it.

Does she feel the same about foxes, squirrels, birds etc? Seems like an extreme (and slightly sadistic) response. Is she OK?

I see that the old Panther Cars place on North Cross Road is finally being done up! Anyone know what's opening in it's place?

It is crazy how expensive it's getting to go out for a few drinks. It's not surprising they're closing at such a rate. All that said, it's not the pubs fault. I really like the GE.

Their Shish was great. Recommend Zaytoon Grill in Peckham though if you're looking for a new Kebab place. It's also very good.

But it could stay stationary. Just as most cars do, for at least 95% of the time on average. Bike hangers can fit 6 vehicles in them and they take up less room than a single occupancy Range Rover. They also don't cause thousands of road injuries and deaths, don't add to pollution and the health impacts that causes, or to climate change, or encourage inactivity and obesity. In other words, they don't externalise their costs on others. Users of bike hangers do pay a fee for the space they use by the way - exactly what the owners of motorised metal boxes consider an outrageous imposition.

I would guess that the 'you said' refers to some sort of survey they've undertaken. If they had a stall in the park were they were discussing plans and taking questions as you have said, perhaps you could have asked them?

Pollution is a problem. It's exactly why we need tougher measures, not to scrap the small controls we do have. That people would note poor air quality and use it to attack ULEZ is astonishing.

No 'axe to grind', it's just an example to illustrate a point. There is no 'anger' on my part (I'm not CPR Dave), the issue is not with a commercial hire business operating from the road per se (there are also lot's of people with two or more private cars), it's just illustrative of what is the problem - the unsustainable use of a scarce resource, without restriction, and with no expectation that the owners of those vehicles contribute to the cost / opportunity cost of storage. There is no other large, privately owned item that you can just store long term, on public land, completely free. Hmm, a large metal box kept on the road. Where have I seen that before? You have to pay for this one. If you put wheels on it, instead of in it, perhaps it would be free.

It really doesn’t. You can drive and park for free, between certain hours, or for a limited time, if you’re using your car to pick something up for example. At other times you may have to pay. What you can’t do for free, is store a car on the road long term, as for that you will need a residents permit. I don’t know why you think that we should all pay for you to store a private car on public land? On my street there’s a chap operating an equipment and vehicle hire business from the street, using it to store multiple vehicles. Yet if I needed a skip temporarily I’d have to pay. I don’t get why people think they’re is an entitlement to subsidised vehicle storage.

Parking is allowed under a CPZ, it's just not always free. And that's not to say that there is no free parking in a CPZ, between certain hours, in certain locations at certain times. What there isn't is free long term storage for vehicles on street.

Lot's of people currently store their car(s) / commercial vehicles on the road, for free. There are even commercial vehicle hire businesses storing heavy machinery on the street locally. Most streets are full of cars which barely move from one week to the next. Why should so much publicly owned and maintained land (which we all pay), be allocated for the storage of private / commercial vehicles, with no cost to the owner? To reiterate the point made previously, a private vehicle is not a public service. Even a space in a bike hanger is charged at a small fee.

Sounds great!