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I've looked through a few pub windows who seem to be serving beer but not necessarily food. One in central London seemed to have some very large 'bubbles' of drinking friends. I expect some are not following the rules. Experience of others? I've checked out the Raider but not sure if he is pubbing at the moment. Not a thread to have a rant at pubs that are not following rules, rather seeking views about good pubs to visit and whether you are doing this.

I'm trivialising things but the lack of gravity from the PM is shocking. It's like watching a pantomime as he almost burst into song about this fantastic Australia deal we are looking like getting. Corbyn annoyed in other ways but generally spoke well. Look at Gordon Brown or Sturgeon (or the late John Smith) at for how it should be done - seems to be a theme here....

This needs to go on the ED issues part of this forum. There are zillions of posts, but don't say that you are a cyclist as you will be loathed. The rules used to be - drive badly down Court Lane, get stuck for 20 minutes at the junction, then crawl all the way to Red Post Hill thinking the houses may be nice and worth millions but BH the traffic......

It always amuses me that 'belching out pollution' is always an argument about anything that dare's to challenge the masses right to drive. Go back in a time machine 20 years and you would see pollution belching out of black cabs, London buses, vans and the like. And then before that sulphur dioxide and lead emissions from fuel. Our air has become progressively cleaner. The modern engine is the cleanest its been for years with the move to fuel injection from carbs, three way catalysts on petrol engines, particulate filters and catalysts on diesel cars. You'll see the odd diesel spewing out fumes, either because it is old, the filter damaged or worse still removed. Sad that it would be straight forward for a copper to stop them and issue a ticket to get it sorted to MOT standard, simply due to visible smoke. But even this simple act is not a priority for policing any more. That said the ULEZ will get rid of most of the polluting vehicles, and then we will just have the residual of the diesels produced before VW gate lead to tightening of the standards. Nitrogen dioxide will remain a decreasing problem, but you can't see it or smell it so it is not 'belching out'. I'd worry more about bonfires and wood burners. Glad to see some more measured posts. If you don't want pollution from cars then don't drive unless you need to. I wont go on about driving standards, beyond racing to the speed bump, banging on your brakes, repeat repeat, increases particulates from engine, road, brake and tyre wear (some will be large and fairly inert, you will cough or blow them up in your hankies), and nitrogen dioxide. Sorry I find some of the more alarmist posts hypocritical. Thanks to some of the more measured/enlightened ones. (this is a rather brief argument about pollution and carbon emissions - there is a much bigger picture of logistics, energy production etc etc but the point is less driving = less emissions. More cycling and walking = less emissions).

It would be great to hear why you are so dismissive of cycling. You will say you aren't but to the casual reader it comes across like that. Doubling of cycling is great, then a further doubling and again and again. Come and join us!

Very cute as when you are watching the telly and still you suddenly see something out of the corner of your eye. We had them for years but never felt we were infested, rather they came out of the cold for food and warmth. We trapped and released a few, taking them well away from the house, so they wouldn't return. Eventually put a grid on a ventilation channel under a small section of sold floor from an air brick and that was it.

Difficulty is that most of you fail to see the real problem. It is the Xmas tree stall on the South Circ near to the Harvester, traffic slows down to turn in or stops to allow people to pull out and it causes tail backs all the way to Court Lane. You need to start a campaign to get it closed down. I bet that Souhthwark is behind this all. Yes I am being facetious but it goes to prove a point that traffic flows depend on numerous factors. I would have said that Everyday is like a Sunday but I know longer quote Morrissey for obvious reasons. Although meat is still murder.

Article on electric vehicles, greening our roads https://www.transporttimes.co.uk/news.php/Greening-the-EV-Transition-586/?utm_source=Transport+Times&utm_campaign=0a64e958c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_30_11_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c0cafa3f39-0a64e958c8-250793593 "This will include understanding how we rebalance road space between cars, buses, cycling and walking. It means not locking-in car dependence by assuming we just replace ICEs with (more) EVs. We should be reducing our carbon footprint by shifting to much more intensive use of a smaller fleet of vehicles and other e-micromobility solutions." It's a transport academic, but I am sure that many of you know better.

On step change if we get it right there will be a revolution in personal mobility, whist a reduction in private car use. As you say about linking up transport nodes. Pugwash, I've posted before on safety and the like. I've been in numerous accidents, less so in recent years although I still get into a situation where I can't unclip fast enough and simply fall in the street every other year or so. In deed many of my accidents are no other vehicle involved, either road conditions of just being an rrrsss. But back to safety from other vehicles, never did any cycle training, but motorcycle training gave me much greater awareness of positioning and those around me. Bikeability will install this in the next generation. I've had far fewer accidents and near misses in recent years as I just think that I am a better cyclist. You get a sixth sense when drivers are on mobiles, not going to indicate, and the vehicle noise (high revs/low gear) means to tuck into the curb. There is also hazard from powered and non-powered two wheelers, and pedestrians in particularly those impervious to noise (headphones), on phone, checking texts whatever. Although it is for us to avoid them. I'd love it if we could share space better. Generally many of us do. I drive as well and last thing I want to do is to hassle more vulnerable road users. I still think government should do more to encourage good driving, cycling, and even pedestrianising. I'm sort of involved but one step removed. One of my hobbies used to be instructing drivers on Court Lane - drive on the accelerator not the brake, slow down slightly before the speed bump and accelerate gently as you approach it, Look you can to the whole mile smoothly without braking and just as quick. Rather than 95% of those - accelerate/brake, accelerate/brake. As the cyclist doing a constant speed overtakes them.

Yep exactly. Like in the film trainspotting - why do we take heroin, because it is wonderful (more colourful language used). Before we queue up to demonise all e-scooters, perhaps we should have a go on one. Incidentally not fond of them, just being a pragmatist. Mate has a 30 year old Citroen AX sport thing, goes like the clappers, doesn't stop and in a collision with a modern vehicle would disintegrate.

Nice post. I cycled back from Tooting today in the cold and twilight after donating blood platelets and it was nice to see so many families cycling home from school. I was going to post something but thought (a) this must be a South West London thing (b)I'd get the howls of derision from many of the regular posters. But cwj you spurred me on. I of course booed at all the cars coming from Dulwich College and the like. I didn't really.

Pretty crazy at the moment - advantage of using your pc/lap top on web based e-mail is that you can hover over the e-mail address. More difficult on your phone.

Or perhaps it is simply caused by too many cars, are all the journeys necessary?

Easy cycle ride though. And yes I am being serious.

You probably need a low pedestrian neighbourhood, with pavement restrictions etc, to deter people using WR. This may also encourage those within walking distance to use Libretto although there are queues there on a Saturday (you can admire his cars though and the nicnacs in his window). Maybe Wood Vale will be the next place to be, although we have lost our pub, garage, sub post office/newsagents/penny sweets and hair dressers.

rch Wrote: -> > This led to the implementation of the current flawed junction scheme connecting Dulwich Village/Calton/Court Lane which, in my opinion, triggered the campaign for the current closure of the junction, which had been rejected back in 2006/07. Interested in the 'flawed junction' design. As an occasional driver I'd avoided using that to get into the village during peak times. As a cyclist using it daily I wrote to Southwark in the 90s on two issues, the need for a crossing by the school and changing the priorities as traffic from Carlton Avenue which didn't have the right of way tended to block the route making it even worse for Court Lane. So you may as well formalise that rather than sitting in traffic grumping at selfish drivers blocking your right of way. Southwark wrote back saying they were not changing things so it was nice to see the crossing installed in much later years, and then finally the change of priorities. Just asking as was curious about the comment on flawed design. I had nothing to do with the closure but you probably know my views on that.

Here's some unexciting debate in parliament yesterday (although very supporting of cycling), no mention of Southwark or K&C https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-03/debates/508957A2-D706-41FB-97D3-83496812F240/WalkingAndCycling Warning: this has some reference to middle aged men in lycra......

Did anyone watch Red White and Blue on the Beeb? Recommend it, here's a review https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/tv/small_axe_red_white_and_blue_review_bbc_john_boyega/15996

Write to the PM. The 2015 manifesto had a commitment to tackle disproportionate fines. Or write to David Cameron, he can afford to pay your fine and didn't meet this commitment, or many others. It's not a facetious comment, these are the exact words: We will continue to support local shops and residents in tackling aggressive parking enforcement and excessive parking charges.

Why do I keep losing my birds. Learn to swim young man learn to swim. Sorry it is late, nothing to do with the thread but this always amuses me

Brother in Law works for one of the national builders and tells me that government have relaxed this so they can work much longer hours. Hopefully doesn't apply to small builders, or otherwise that they aren't aware or aren't prepared to do this. Not sure if it is me but there seems to be far more building work in the last few months, I'm sure this and all you with petrol power tools (garden and DIY) have lead to losing my garden birds. For some reason builders often arrive early and then have a loud conversation outside for the first hour before they start at 8. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-construction-update-qa redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noise is permitted between 0800-1800 weekdays and > 0900-1300 saturdays. If they make noise outside of > these hours then get onto the council sharpish, > it's illegal.

It may sound twaddle and you can well be cynical but a better apology by some eg Priti Patel and picking up on yesterday's documentary John Terry. Can you imagine a world where JT had announced that he had publicly and formally apologised to Anton, explained that it was a heat of the moment comment and that it was totally wrong, and that he'd donated ?100k to a youth project in West London. Would have put a halt to much of the hate mail and been a very different signal to the white supremacists many of who still support Chels. So sorry to have gone off at a tangent!

Can you not stick to the ED issues thread Legal? The Lounge should be for wider debate. I'll happily stick to the wider debate, and exile myself from the other threads, apart from the occasional post about my garden birds. AS said just a year or two ago many posters would have been lauding Extension Rebellion.

Sorry not to help but how exciting. What do you make? Haven't done pottery for years but we had a kiln at our primary school, as well as the senior one. Do you show in Artists' Open House?

Best post of the day!