malumbu

Why are you condoning such dreadful behaviour, particularly from a parent who can afford to send their child to an expensive and prestigious private school?

A bit of a daft post making sweeping statements about the country. Most of us like Britain even if we are not proud of it all the time. A few nobheads rioting doesn't change that. I'll take it that you were posting in jest looking to get a reaction like mine!

They highlight bad/selfish motoring. How on earth can anyone, apart from a few hard core motorists, take exception? Well done to them. Happy to forgive them if occasionally over zealous. If I had a helmet can would have loved to have captured the driver doing 70 last Sunday evening on Brenchley overtaking a dozen slow motorists. Fortunately I could seek refuge on the pavement. Funnily enough I don't look at X very often but thanks to the link to DR.

I see no problem in alerting the masses to serious accidents. Almost 30,000 a year are killed or seriously injured each year on our roads, a number that has plateaued in recent years. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022 I'm thankful that 20mph has been introduced throughout Southwark and neighbouring boroughs,

There appears to be confusion about what a consultation is. We are delivering a scheme. We want your views on how nest to implement this. An interesting comparison is that all proposed new nuclear power stations received more objections than support during statutory consultation in the last 40 years or more. All were successful in the planning application. As said consultations are not a referendum.

In this situation 999, the next time it happens do it at the scene. I am vulnerable and being threatened. He only crashes into female drivers, often with young children in the car

GOP made some fair points and lives in the area. You dismissed their post immediately. Can you go back and consider/comment on the other things they said?

Please report to the police as an insurance scam

Thames water advice is to take your own readings if you think you have a leak. With all the taps and other water feeds off, with stop cock on and stop cock off. Despite all the issues we with the company they were very good to me when I had a real leak in the old lead pipe into the house. Now all plastic

I'm not really sure what you want. Is it banning e bike rental schemes? And ditto for e scooter rentals? I don't expect that is going to happen, as said before would it not be better getting the schemes to work better. A good start would be to write to Ellie explaining what you want and we we need it.

Twist and go e bikes are actually 'powered two wheelers' so need to be registered, riders have to have licenses and insurance and pay vehicle excise duty (ie like motorbikes and mopeds). Therefore unless this is done they are not road legal. A quick fix was sorted for hire electric scooters, and those not under a hire scheme are illegal both on the road and pavement. A whole different thread. Some stuff from Raleigh who don't sell non-road legal bikes is useful https://www.raleigh.co.uk/gb/en/electric-bike-knowledge/do-electric-bikes-have-throttles/ Lime bikes and other electrically assisted bikes are in regulator terms the same as pedal cycles.

I know of plenty of people who use them and like them. Are others living in a bubble? I have no need for them but understand that others do.

Fundamentally hire bikes a good thing so surely better spending time on making the concept work better rather than loathing them. By all means lobby government on the free for all of food delivery

I'm liking the idea of a car free day, maybe monthly, in LL. Buses would need to be diverted but could pick up and drop either at GG or further up LL. Could arrange for supervised bike, cargo bike and Lime bike parking

Daft speculation by many people, dependent on multiple factors, measurements supplemented by sophisticated modelling. Essentially cleaner vehicles equals less pollution. The academics will get some handle on how much ULEZ accelerated air quality improvements. And as for Bromley the 30 mph borough......

Quick summary. Traffic reduction is good because it means: less pollution, less carbon emissions, space can be allocated for other purposes, more attractive environment, reduction in accidents/improvement in road safety, more walking and cycling (health benefits), more efficient use of our transport network and global resources (fossil fuels, raw materials, energy). Move to electric vehicles (EVs) will reduce emissions of nitrogen dioxides, the main cause of early deaths and poor health due to air quality. But as others have discussed they are not a solution, congested roads full of EVs are not what is needed. Non-tailpipe emissions from road vehicles is complex, particles of road and tyres may be relatively inert when we breath them in but still end up in our rivers seas and being ingested by animals including us. Heavier vehicles worsen this - driven in part by the manufactures willing us to supersize our vehicle fleet, and the extra weight of batteries in EVs. Most drivers don't drive smoothly, increasing road, brake and tyre wear. Of course if you don't believe that there is climate change, poor air quality, increased obesity and type 2 diabetes due to diet and lack of physical exercise, and you don't care about a nicer environment, or don't believe that reduction in road traffic will help address this, then a bit of a pointless debate Nice post yogiandbubu

Is it just me or is the title of this thread weird? Not a good sign when the subject heading is not clear. Is this a decline in our use of the English language? A thread in it's own right. Reminds me of the Badwolf line running through the Dr Who's of Ecclestone and Tenant. Perhaps Rose in the parallel universe can understand what badfish is and save our world. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_Wolf_(entity)

I'm really looking forward to the development being completed and hope to see some of you there.

Good morning, good afternoon, good day, hello and occasional thank you best way of communicating.

If they have had their cycle training they will know to use the bell sparingly. Ideally come year 5 most of them will be trained and confident to cycle on the road. Just need to train the parents! I'm being serious 😀

Fortunately I expect that you are not typical of many drivers around here. The residents opposing the LTN recognise we need to reduce car journeys. It's views like yours that make this challenging and the reason we need road closures, traffic calming and speed cameras. Rashmipat out of interest how do you and residents feel we should reduce car journeys?

On line suggests 3 points, depends no doubt on circumstances, and how lenient magistrate is regards the size of the fine. Wouldn't expect there would be any value in paying for legal advice/support unless covered by insurance policy or the like, and unless proper procedure has not been followed probably no value

Sounds like many points and a large fine - the latter usually depends on income. Obviously all depends on circumstances. I expect that if this was a Prince Phillip situation he many have been asked to voluntarily surrender his license. Going to court is quite serious, speed awareness course is the common course of action when drivers have been a little careless. My only experience on the size of fine was overhearing a bloke saying he was going to go to court to challenge 3 points speeding, doing 80, on the A2. The points came with a modest fine maybe a 100 quid plus, court was up to £1200. This was many years ago. Practice what he is going to say as mitigating circumstances.

That's great news, rather than arguing against measures we should celebrate more kids walking to school.

The issue is changing habits. I've worked in sustainable transport for over a decade and behaviours are so entrenched. We all know people who drive at times when there are other options out of habit, convenience, or perceived convenience the Heathrow study a few years ago put up lots of nice soft incentives to support sustainable travel including lift sharing and made bugger all difference. Some of the local private schools do a lot to make it difficult to park yet parents still find a way. And those parking on the zig zags outside the state schools. This isn't just about parents but these are the easy examples. So I am in favour of harder intervention although think that it is wrong for the government to leave it just to local authorities. And meanwhile the motor industry still wants us to trade up to bigger vehicles. It is a shame that some paint this out as cyclists Vs drivers. And frustrating that when you are doing your part you suffer. With time I hope things do change and that the new government play their part. Edited: Heathrow was about reducing driving to work, commutes tend to be longer than many around here and far more people drive. Useful study anyway.