Earl Aelfheah

Ok. So why have we not pedestrianised most of central London? Soho, Oxford and regents street, seven dials, brick lane, etc etc. truth is that cars dominate almost every part of this city - totally disproportionately. And any attempt to dissuade people from making short journeys by car, externalising the costs and impacts of that decision, is met with hysteria. Car drivers have been stopped cutting through a hand fall of back streets and they won’t stop moaning about it. Entitled or what?

@heartblock - I would be very happy to see on street parking removed and a lot more pedestrianisation. If we did that (like they have in other European capitals), we would see much more walking and cycling (and community life generally).

@Rockets - You were suggesting that investment in cycling infrastructure wasn't worth it because 'so few' commute by bike. I'm just pointing out that only 8.8% commute by car. How much more space and investment do we put into driving infrastructure? Streets make up 80% of public space and most of it is devoted to motor vehicle use and storage. When you also consider that most of those journeys could be cycled in around 10-15 mins, (or walked in under half an hour) it just makes your argument even weaker.

That's really lovely.

19% of Southwark commuters travel less than 2km - around a 20 minute walk It's really difficult to justify why the vast majority of public space is allocated to motor vehicles when most households in the borough don't have access to a car. Especially when most of the costs of motoring are 'externalised'.

The same figures show that 53.5% of those commuting to work in Southwark travel less than 5km. For most that'll be around a 10-15 min cycle one way. We need to make it much easier, safer and pleasant, by removing motor vehicles from many more public spaces (as they have in other European capitals). Also 5.7% commute by bike, versus 8.8% by car or van in Southwark. Yet, every single street is full with two lines of parked cars as well as busy roads. Less than half of households have access to a car. Most cars sit stationary at least 95% of the time. Another reason we need to reallocate more space to people.

The sheer number of trees on the pavement suggests that the Council have not done a good enough job of making collection easy and / or communicating the process well imo.

If you do want to catch the tube at Brixton it’s very easy to cycle there (around 10 minutes from the village). You can take a Lime bike (electric hire bike) for the same cost as a bus ticket)

There is a data dashboard which shows what's happened as a result of the scheme. It's published on the Southwark council website. Shows increases in active travel and decreases in the number of motor vehicles, both within the LTN and on most boundary roads.

Unlike double parked cars

The cabinet were fed up with being sent out in front of the media to say stuff that later turned out to be untrue (and known to be untrue at the time they were sent out there). They'd lost all confidence in the PM and the number 10 operation. If you fundamentally doubt any reassurances you are given by your boss, then that makes your job impossible. Whether or not a lot of gullible people liked Johnson's airy, flippant, entitled manner is irrelevant. Being a 'right laugh' in the opinion of some of the electorate, doesn't mean you're capable of leading a major operation, responsible for governing the country. They did entirely the right thing getting rid of man baby Johnson, regardless of what happens at the next election. The shameful part is that it took them quite so long.

"According to those living in the area, the bollard bombardment is the result of problem parking outside the primary school. Parents were said to have been pulling onto the pavement, parking two abreast, blocking driveways and then abusing residents who challenged them. The school is said to have asked mum and dads to park carefully. But despite wardens being deployed on the area, it is only since the bollards went in that the errant parking was stopped." https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/55-bollards-been-installed-a38-25897399

It's such a great local spot. Hope it's there for a while yet.

Bora & Sons on Lordship Lane

What location is it? They also have a couple of places in Edinburgh. Wish Ole & Steen would have replaced Brickhouse instead of Gail’s arriving. Ole & Steen seem to be opening up all over London. Their coffee is a bit underwhelming in my opinion

This sounds good

Couldn't see if it's been mentioned already, but there is a lovely looking place on Melbourne Grove called Drop Dulwich https://dropwine.co.uk/drop-dulwich

Wash and dry laundrette (corner of the Lane and pellet rd

Farmers is great

Another poundland am I missing something There are two more within a mile(ish) of Lordship Lane.

Or the bikes could just be parked on the street like motorbikes. Yep, or that.

Let's hope it doesn't become another church.

Personally, I would rather this than Foxtons - but not sure we need another Poundland, or any other mini supermarkets. Will be interesting to see how it does.

For those interested, the LTN traffic monitoring dashboard has been updated (cue lot's of nonsense about how the traffic counts are faked): https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/traffic-data-analysis

Wow, crazy. Good she had a camera / there were witnesses.