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Wow: Imagine cyclists wizzing along at 30+ never letting others cross, crashing, taking out road furniture at the expense of us all. Today I cycled to the Imperial War Museum area and then to the 205 at Belair Park. 1 1/2 hours transit round trip (exercise) to 7 1/2 hours of activity in 2 locations passing cars queued in all directions coming and going. I had a great Sunday. Whoever crashed their car had a cr*p Sunday. No crashed cycles to be seen anywhere.

[email protected] 07900 227366 Liberal Democrat Councillor for East Dulwich Ward [www.jamesbarber.org.uk] [twitter.com]

This just came through on the subject of shared roads: I am delighted to invite you to a seminar that I am hosting to discuss Cyclists and the Law in London?s Living Room, City Hall, London, SE1 2AA on Wednesday 22nd May from 6.30pm to 9pm. The event will aim to identify steps that the police, TfL, cyclists and others can take to reduce the number of deaths and casualties on our roads. The seminar will feature short speeches from four prominent figures within London?s cycling community: Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor?s Cycling Commissioner, will explain his role and his and the Mayor?s work at City Hall Detective Chief Superintendent Scott Wilson, Metropolitan Police, will introduce some of the challenges the police face when dealing with cases involving cyclists and the law and how these challenges are handled Kevin O?Sullivan, Levenes Cycling Injury Lawyer, will comment on his experience of assisting cyclists in London with legal problems Darren Johnson AM will provide an overview of the Assembly Transport Committee?s work on cycling These will be followed by an open discussion. Findings from the seminar will inform a series of recommendations to be included an updated version of my 2007 report ?London?s Lawless Roads?, to be published in June 2013. The original report can be accessed here: http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/archives/assembly-members-jonesj-docs-lawlessroad_report.pdf If you are able to attend, please RSVP by Monday 20th May. Please complete the attached form and send it by email to [email protected] City Hall is fully accessible for disabled guests. Please let us know if you have any particular access requirements. If you are unable to attend, please feel free to pass this invitation to a colleague to attend in your place. Refreshments will be served from 6pm. I very much hope to see you on the 22nd May, and to hear your views and ideas on this important topic. Yours sincerely, Jenny Jones AM Green Party Member of the London Assembly Reply Form For Seminar hosted by Jenny Jones AM: Cyclists and the Law Wednesday 22nd May, 6.30pm-9pm* London?s Living Room City Hall The Queen?s Walk London SE1 2AA *speakers will begin at 6.30pm prompt so please arrive at 6pm to allow time for security and registration at City Hall Email this page back to Rachel Carlill, [email protected] Or send by post to Rachel Carlill, Green Group, London Assembly, City Hall, The Queen?s Walk, London SE1 2AA Enquiries: 020 7983 4964 Please complete the details below ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will / will not be attending the seminar Name: Position (if any): Company/Organisation: Telephone: Email: Additional requirements BSL interpreter: Lip speaker: Reserved parking spaces for orange / blue badge holder (including registration number):

Today's Southwark News reported this and added that the incident had not been reported to the police. Not good. This should have been reported to the local Safer Neighbourhood Team: SNT Mick Bell [email protected] Upland Rd is pretty much between the 2 safe crossings possibly 500m each way. That's a lot for anyone to walk out of their way. Upland Rd has a bus stop on each side. People cross at bus stops. Court Lane enters LsL on a rather steep hill with drivers concerned about joining fast moving traffic and not looking at anything else. Goodrich School is down Upland Rd and St Anthony's is down Friern. This area is loaded with children. To answer a message above, yes I agree with you, the correct placement for a safe crossing is Friern. Friern's not just off a bend, gives better vision and Friern is a wider road at its junction with LsL and at the same time less used which will give more space for all the different manoeuvres of drivers and pedestrians and cyclists.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324754/Girl-11-dies-hospital-collision-lorry-south-London.html?ico=home%5Eheadlines Here's the very latest person killed by a driver in London. This morning I saw 2 adults with 8 children try to cross LsL at Upland Rd. Not a single driver slowed down on either side of the Island. An absurd imagine of this island of humans and a sea of traffic.

I live right where this incident occurred. I did not see it. I know drivers speed there. Most curiously is how when I cross drivers don't slow down, there is a bizarre calculation that my speed will continue as it is and they'll scrape by behind me. I have noticed this phenomena virtually 100% of the time. Drivers don't even take their foot off the gas pedal. They just assume people never fall over or in any way change their speed. On Friern just at LsL I was 3/4 across the road and a car sped up and passed in front of me scraping through in what the driver must have thought was a great calculation. The cement island is in any event horribly placed with no thought to turning vehicles. A turning car stops traffic and as in a car humans lose any semblance of courtesy this means a queue of furious drivers who cannot see and only imagine gross incompetence on the part of the first in the queue. I drive. I know what DJ does to Sheppardton. My son did this trip exactly by train from Waterloo. It's not that frequent but amazingly it stops at the door to the studio. You must carry stuff and you need to be flexible. It is a car trip in all likelihood...albeit a horrible one that must leave you frazzled. As an aside you must be a wonderful and a very interesting person. I know we're all on the same side but this nurtured illusion that we're not is what fuels bad politics. On the point of the parking tickets issued in PP. I know, yes the verb is KNOW, that parking skates a thin line with how SOME tickets are issued. It is illegal to have quotas. But they do. Of course parking has to be regulated for all sorts of reasons. But tickets should be regulated by courtesy and it should be a social learning exercise in most instances not a money spinner which is what it is now. To ticket parents who took their kids to football and other teams could... could tip some families over a financial edge/ wreck a weekend/ hurt marriages and partnerships/ make children feel guilty. A warden should be posted there on a weekend explaining why parking should be certain way. And / or parking should be improved. What is really dangerous is what happens in front of schools every day. I have NEVER seen a warden at the school on my street.

Southwark just lost a one billion pound investment by UCL in Bermondsey. It seems it was theirs to lose and they lost it. UCL and their money for housing and jobs and education have gone to Stratford

If an incident had happened with a bicyclist this thread would be multiple pages long

I'll dare to say all day

All will be explained Saturday the 11 at Dulwich Library. All the creatures have assembled at the library for their grand finale. And it sounds like it will be grand indeed. This is one for the kids, if you have them bring them

8 years back an automatic speed reading sign was installed there: happy face when a driver went speed limit and a sad face when above the limit. Then one day when it had only been there a short while I saw some men in neon vests scale the sign and do something. It never worked again. I've since decided that the men I saw were car vigilantes "liberating" drivers from restrictions on their rights

Tell the Safer Neighbourhood Team for East Dulwich http://content.met.police.uk/Team/Southwark/EastDulwich

The Bishop

Does anyone know how to turn this OFF ? (The) caldav.calendar.yahoo.com/principals/users/(name)@btinternet.com/ encountered HTTP error 404. Make sure the URL is correct. After some time the calendar isn't happy anymore I'm getting this message endlessly

on Alleyn's Park Rd at the Pub across from the Majestic

I use this all the time

Are they driving down the street with a metal detector in the van?

LORDSHIP LANE POST OFFICE REPLACEMENT I am cutting and pasting this from James Barber's blog. Absolutely no comment at all from me as I have no idea at all what the facts are of this issue. The Post Office has 373 Crown Post Office branches. It?s decided to transfer 70 to retail partners. One of the 70 is our one on Lordship Lane. They have stressed to me that this is not about closing our post office on Lordship Lane but rather replacing it. But obviously this will cause great concern and will require a 6 week public consultation. My experience of such Post Office replacements has been very positive but that is no guarantee it will work well on Lordship Lane. A Post Office spokesperson stated ?We are confident that our plans will mean that customers continue to benefit from a Post Office in their locality delivering service of the highest quality. Partnering with a complementary, respected retailer will also provide for long term viability and sustainability of the branches in question.? What do you think to this change?

The government abandoned plans for compulsory ID a bit back. The cost was prohibitive at about ?100. Hmm pretty cheap and it could be used right through the spectrum of this conversation (show your ID in a situation) and as a travel document like other countries have. To follow up on a point by Lady D. Thinking for 30 seconds this is my list: I know 3 dead here in London, 1 (now adult) brain damaged and physically disabled in the USA, 1 (now adult) brain damaged and physically disabled in France. That was 30 seconds for cars, no driver caught or prosecuted. For bikes: (long pause) lots of falling off scrapes and scratches mostly caused through sports off the road. I have a car and I use it when I need to and a bike.

Charles what you imply in your posts is no different than the urban myth about the MMR Jab. The willingness of parents to follow the "greater truth" that there was a conspiracy of science to hurt now threatens the public health with a measles out break. The repetition of myths all over the world is a curious phenomena: Polio vaccines are really to sterilise ethnic groups, global warming is a myth and so can be ignored. So you imply statistics that don't suit you about cycling vs driving are a government conspiracy. Why? Why would these statistics be distorted?

I think Peckham Vision has the best interests of Peckham and that includes all of you posting here. I haven't studied the ... 20 years? that people in PV have been working to regenerate Peckham but I think I am correct that the Council is acting entirely on the backs of the Blood Sweat and Tears of those years of effort. I speak only as an observer but I attended the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday when PV forced the council NOT to effectively sterilise the area around the station for developers and chains. It seems to me that what PV wants having taken the process to this point is to integrate the entire community of Peckham from the historic 1600's frontages that still exist and the amazing history and scandals and stories through the heights of the High Street with the biggest and the best and the whole world coming to see and shop. And also respect and cherish the people who live in Peckham now. Personally I'd trust PV to maximise and integrate and maintain. The subtlety of the PV group who work free with intellect and passion and love of community is the best partner that the Council could find for regeneration. I hope they work with them.

Now the link's live! Please do fill in the survey as to what you want when you don't cook yourself: The link below is a quick survey on how people are managing with food and big kids ? please fill it in (3 mins max!) if you are the proud parent/grandparent of a 7-11 year old and/or pass on the link to friends who are. There?s a great prize to win ? a Fizz Pop Science Party :-) No catches, we are just interested and want to use the aggregated results (no names quoted we promise) in our forthcoming press releases and to let other parents know that they are ?not alone!?. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Bigkids

Another 387 signatures are needed for this to be "discussed" at a cabinet meeting. Amazing that Southwark cabinet councillors need to be "told" to discuss this and shame on the people who belittle this post. If you find it so uninteresting that all you can do is mock and jeer then don't read it. The people who drive to primaries should be told to STOP. This conversation has been going on for 20 years. Walking buses, green routes are well established but a large minority have no idea that the world has moved on. Schools should have "extended hours" serving breakfast so working parents might have a quality walk a few hundred metres looking and talking starting children's days with thinking and talking and love and then leaving their kids for a good breakfast and or play and getting off on their own working day thinking how wonderful their kids are and how nice it is to have quiet/ quality time with them first thing. What a terrible way to start the day with late chaos driving replete with horrible manners. I live near a primary and drivers pull onto my forecourt because they're rushed and it's convenient. I invite them in to look through my closets and rooms for anything else that they might find of use. It is NOT a "nanny" state to talk about better ways to use common resources.

There is a local alternative which is being actively developed at the East Dulwich Hospital Site in the Guard house. Could you brief us on that James?

I completely support planned extension as described by James