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Maybe just get rid of the pavements, to make more space for cars? All shops can be drive-in like in America. Alleluia. Not really sure you are being serious. If you are you sound rather angry. I always go for a ride when I am angry or stressed.

I was told from a contact of another copycat incident today on Woodwarde, motor scooter, women with two children in the car, rider keeps his helmet on and face 3/4 covered, maybe Italian? I often post against reactionary posts but this one is real. And specifying a likely nationality is not racist. If it happens to you admit nothing, beyond giving your name and address don't give any further information, and 999, at the scene if you get the opportunity, but this is a stressful situation where you are likely to feel vulnerable so as soon as you can. They will have a number of similar reports so this will build intelligence. I reckon it is the same person but riding under different names. PM me for more details. If you are on Woodwarde and saw anything again PM me. By all means write to Ellie asking her to raise the issues over the ease that some get away with this sort of insurance scam with the insurers' representatives, and what more government should be doing.

Strange thing to argue about. Let's say that there is a 50 50 split between those on a normal shift and those on overtime. That's around 3500 normal shift out of 34k. So maybe down 10% down and no doubt shift patterns are changed in the boroughs to spread things out over the weekend ie when there are less cops needed for NH. Point is that the racist graffiti bloke will be dealt with according to normal police priorities and the carnival will cause a little disruption rather than boroughs being in crisis. In fact I could suggest that crime would drop in Catford Brixton and some other crime hotspots but that could be read as casual racism. So I won't.

Sainsbury's is a private one and you have to pay if you are not shopping and it is enforced. Better enforced than double line parking outside of the working day

Disagree on this occasion, Beckenham is away from the high street and has parking. There is already enough hassle on Perry Vale behind the station with drivers parking on the double yellows when there is a big event on making the road dangerous for all. There is a reasonably large car park not far away but many don't or wont use it. Ideally of course families would arrive using the wonderful public transport in the area..... Anyway what will be will be.

Would expect that Lewisham would want to keep it for the arts and entertainment. Not sure if a kiddy playground would fit and whether it would need a change of use.

There is a fair number of council houses and flat going up, obviously not everyone is happy as some green space may be lost, but in the scheme of things......

To correct my earlier post reporting that the Labour government was leaving it to decide to local authorities what was best, government can and should do more to encourage and enable councils to take action. Funding will be available under sustainable transport programmes, until the last decade governments were talking the talk if not walking the walk, Earl's example above being a pretty good one, but a combination of Covid and the impact on government coffers, and Suank, reversed much of the previous commitments. Sadly I can't give links as whatever ministers said pre 2020 is wiped off the web, there may be references in the media and you can get some stuff in the national archives. Heaven knows what happened with regards to meeting statutory air quality roadside concentrations of pollutants. Government was ordered to sort this out by the Supreme Court in 2015, but it has long since gone quiet from the centre.

Pleased to hear RCH. But why not just say if "we", or "society", want to reduce car journeys, not "if the council" as this is painted out by many as unreasonable Southwark vs victimised car drivers. Also you play into the common view by many, oh we have to drive because the trains and buses aren't good enough, the pavement has too many cracks, crossing the road is not safe, and there are too many puddles. OF course everything can be improved, but we do have pavements, trains and buses, and 20mph speed limits. Some areas and the country may have none of these and crossing the road in a village with no controlled crossing with traffic at 60mph isn't fun.

Spoke to a copper today, the other boroughs offer a little support but not a lot, much of the police numbers are overtime which is as he said double bubble. But a fine bit of casual racism from said copper, he didn't want to volunteer as he didn't want to be stabbed. Hopefully most of these stereotypical views have now been kicked out of the Met. Totally irreverent to the thread of course. Worked on and off with the Met for a long time and generally seen things improve addressing institutional racism. A general request to cut the personal comments, bemused to have the T word used against me but a version of the C word is getting a bit silly. I'll leave that there.

Don't YOU think we should reduce car use?

As does the way many generally use their vehicles, the only time some are concerned about pollution is when they are inconvenienced. Good news, for me at least, is the new government not getting involved in Sunak's silly culture wars, car drivers vs humanity. Worth reading beyond the second paragraph: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v8d4lvjryo

One reason not to live in the village then. I was in Devon recently and apauling signal there too. So not planning to move there either

Looks like many other streets in London. Perhaps you are unaware that local authorities are strapped for cash, as costs increase, in particular as the population ages. Unnecessary austerity under the coalition government exacerbated the situation. Look at the big picture and perhaps you may cut local authorities some slack

You will have to help me on this one as I usually give up after the first paragraph of a link if it appears irrelevant. But happy to be tarred with a moral high ground brush.

Heavens, views like this make it less likely that it will be reversed. Have a walk sometime. Buy a bicycle, we could go on a nice ride into town or Greenwich. Get a train or bus. I went through the transformation and thoroughly recommend it.

I'm not fond of entitled motorists that couldn't give a cuss about other road users and the safety of people as a whole. Do you tick that box? I could spend my whole life dobbing people in but I have a life, although with some comments here it would be useful to have a helmet/body/dash cam. I've no sympathy for those who I do class as entitled and I speak from experience of someone who has penalty notices in the past, usually for not checking rather than taking the p.

Wow that's a pessimistic view of a massive festival which most people have a great time. Borderline casual racism? Ironic on a thread about racist behaviour. edited: Thought I'd better add some context. Firstly I have made an assumption that you are not from Caribbean or African heritage. I could be wrong of course. Secondly, your comment had little relevance to the thread, which questions why you needed to make it, beyond a conscious or unconscious bias.

To correct you IT IS a good thing, noticed builders in our street doing it as well. I haven't thought of surveying them to see whether they would have walked in the past. This radomised control trial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920920308336 reported that about half of ebike journeys were previously carried out by car - but this may not necessarily apply to hire ebikes (surprisingly I didn't find anything on line). There is plenty from both motoring and cycling groups on line to suggest that some will replace their car with an e-bike. Not sure how robust this data is.

it's a fair bet that the police talk to Southwark, and Southwark, the police. Uncle Glen would have a view, probably different to most of us (in his words the forum is a bandwagon for George Monbiot's brainwashed minions), but has not posted since before Covid. I think he and Rendel who has also disappeared (shame) had some right ding dongs. Uncle was last heard of posting in support of Katie Hopkins, then some aliens took him away on a traction beam. Perhaps.

Yes, I had a look at this link https://www.southwark.gov.uk/street-care/graffiti explains Southwark's responsibilities well, including graffiti on private property where it faces the public, and others eg Network Rail. They can fine perpetrators up to £5000, so there could be civil action as well as criminal in this case - the latter being the purpose of the thread. Haven't a clue how long it takes for them to clean up graffiti, that could be a subject of another thread, but saddens me that some take every opportunity to knock the council. The Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003 gives local authorities in England powers to compel owners of 'surfaces' to remove graffiti and can charge then costs but I haven't looked to see whether this could be making you remove graffiti that someone else has produced. I expect that this Act is little used and I'm not bothered in finding out further.

Hate crime is a police matter, why knock the council.

Cycle and e cycle hire is fundamentally a good thing. Why are there so many people angry about it. A shame there is so much negativity. Now illegal e scooters and fully electric bikes, that is another thing I challenge everyone to think of a positive story, about anything, to start a thread on

Shame to pour cold water on this anouncement. Does it matter that she doesn't cycle in London beyond it makes her look a bit silly? Fortunately my good friends in DfT, whether they cycle or not, are no the ball, and often on their bike. Their personal views do not affect the job in hand - but it will be a relief that there was a change in government.

Expect it is Dulwich Estates, they don't allow cashpoints and no doubt don't like mobile phone masts, there is one camouflaged in Belair Park