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TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > alex_b Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > JohnL Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > I see perhaps a federal system if Scotland > > doesn't > > > leave. > > > > > > If you really have 4 equal countries then one > > > can't make all the decisions. > > > > It?s hard to have four equal countries if one > is > > ten times the size of the others. > > > Absolutely, you cant have a federalized model with > England being so much larger than the other parts > of the UK....just not sustainable. Even with > English devolvement being a feature...I just cant > see it working effectively. > > Perhaps you could split England up 'Game of > Thrones' style.....i.e. The North etc etc...I thin > Boris might fancy himself as King of the Seven > Kingdoms, first of his name, protector of the > realm:) This is actually not a bad idea. Federal states of Wales, N Ireland, Scotland, Westcountry, The North, London, and herebedragons

Blimey - that's an impressive bit of DIY KidKruger.

alex_b Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Diable - because it?s a good culture war issue > that keeps Labour on the back foot. The argument > in favour is superficially simple (you need ID to > pick up a parcel) and it?s easy to paint > opposition to being in favour of electoral fraud. > > Trying to engage with the detail of why it?s a > terrible solution to a non existent problem > requires a level of detail that is difficult to > get across in a 15 second soundbite. It?s also > helpful that the people most vocally opposed to > this policy will be younger people of colour, > allowing them to show that Labour has been taken > over by woke, metro elites rather than traditional > working class people. exactly this

I really don't want to see Scotland leave the UK, just as I didn't want to see the UK leave the EU. But I think it's kind of inevitable that eventually Ireland will be reunited and Scotland will assert independence. I hope I'm wrong, but I can see years of slow decline ahead of us as a result of Brexit. I suspect our children's generation will not look back kindly on what has happened under our watch.

Or / and they should be encouraging e-hire bikes (such as Lime etc) which can be picked up and left at your destination without having to actually own your own bike. Would enable a lot more people to make short journeys easily and conveniently. Brent did a deal with Lime to bring them to their area. If you added in a segregated bike lane down EDG to connect to Railton LTN and the tube at Brixton, it would massively reduce journey times into central London from these parts.

Another thread to discuss LTNs / opposition to LTNs? Really?

I was also thinking about the old Hepworth the other day when walking through the park. So sad that it was stolen. Didn't realise the spirals are collapsing - that's not good. For what it's worth, I quite like the sculptures.

Inside72 was great. The Drum was underrated too in my opinion.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People often compare London to European cities > (Paris, Amsterdam ...) In order to say they're > doing it (making provisions for cycling), why > can't we. > > What's different is that during and as a result of > ww2, large parts of European cities were knocked > down and rebuilt with a lot of wider streets > whereas London retained the narrow street > infrastructure we see today. > > It's obviously easier to install cycle lanes that > work with other traffic if the streets are wider. Paris is proposing to close a large central area to most traffic (about the size of the area contained within the circle line in London). It's nothing to do with road layout.

Mad looking back at this. Black Cherry, Inside 72, the Drum and Liquorish all gone sadly.

Oh good. Another thread on LTNs. I was getting worried that we were in danger of being restricted to fewer than half a dozen different discussions making the same points.

Can we please stop creating new threads on LTNS? The General section is overrun with multiple threads making the same points. Surely we can limit the discussion to a single thread?

Any chance of consolidating the multiple threads on LTNS / Healthy Streets / Village 'closures' etc. Or simply locking all but one? The General section is overrun with different threads making the same points.

Its' really unreasonable. You should speak with the neighbour and perhaps some others nearby to see if they're being affected too. If there is a general consensus that it's causing a disturbance and the neighbours aren't doing anything, you could report it to the Southwark noise team. I really feel for you - it's horrible to have to get in to a dispute (no matter how friendly) with a neighbour. It's very unfair of them to put you in such a position by imposing themselves on others in the way described.

Paris are doing loads of really great stuff to reduce car use. They're miles ahead of us

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To get to net-zero by 2050 will take a lot more > pain than this - I guess we'll give up by 2025. This. It's so depressing. We've no hope of getting to net zero.

legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The "main road" thing is fairly subjective though. > Court Lane is a classified road (not a "back > street") and shut completely. But it's an > interesting point: the council is prepared to > force LL, EDG and Croxted to endure massive > congestion while we see whether and how traffic > will adjust; but not prepared to subject DV, > Turney and Burbage to the same type of experiment > (even though they would have experienced less than > LL, EDG and Croxted do now, as more routes would > have been open. Is this down to traffic modelling > or political considerations (genuine question - > was there traffic modelling that couldn't be > ignored, for example)? > > RRR would you support reversing the Phase 2 > closures in the Village and then seeing if the > CA/CL junction closure is sustainable as a stand > alone, on an experimental basis? Yes

There is absolutely zero reason to bring in mandatory voter ID other than to suppress votes. It?s a Trump policy from ?Britain Trump?.

Yep. Pretty spot on. All that said however, people in Hartlepool who think Johnson is going to improve things for them are deluded. I wish them luck. We need a coalition of progressives.

Wow, I didn?t know that. Thank A pretty widely known bit of local history this one, but Bon Scott of AC/DC passed away outside 67 Overhill Road.

The smoking analogy is more like workplaces, pubs and restaurants saying ?if you want to smoke you have to do it outside. It hasn?t just led to people taking their smoking onto the pavement (although some have that can cause inconvenience), but it?s led to many giving up smoking. The issue isn?t to allow smoking inside again, it?s to do more to deal with the nuisance of pavement smokers. In this case (I?m stretching the analogy), we need to now look to address the long standing congestion on main roads. Those who think that we should only tackle cars once we have a new tube or something, are kidding themselves. That?s not to say that I don?t support better public transport, but it?s a longer term project. The creation of some quieter streets does provide a carrot to those who would otherwise avoid walking and cycling and just get in the car. DulwichGlobetrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ? Let me take your smoking analogy - what the > council is doing is saying don't smoke outside > your house, go down the road and smoke outside > someone else's instead......winking smiley And the > areas within the LTN are some of the biggest > smokers in the area!?

rachp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We stopped driving as much when we moved to just > off the busy section of Lordship Lane because > parking is so difficult in our road. We basically > couldn't be bothered with the hassle. We now > really only drive when taking a trip out of > London. But if it's local, we walk/bike/scooter or > use public transport. And now it's just become our > way of doing things and we prefer it. It's been a > bit more tricky during the COVID period as you are > more reluctant to use public transport but > hopefully things will start to get back to normal > on that front soon. Same here, and for many others I suspect. The reduction in cars on a handful of streets does also make it easier / more pleasant to walk and cycle.

I understand that there are concerns that it may be more difficult to drive on some roads than others, but on the principle of making car journeys less convenient generally... do people fundamentally disagree?

Anyone got any interesting Local or London sights, points of interest, or little known histories they?d like to share?