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Unfortunately it replies upon residents having a place put the leaves. Seems a bit slack of the council to not clear the leaves from the tress and rely upon residents to put them in a brown bin which they also have to pay the council to have.

49 minutes ago, Jenijenjen said:

There are very many council tax payers in Southwark who do not have the luxury of a garden, even in East Dulwich, and it would be unreasonable to expect them to subsidise the lucky ones who do.

That could be applied to many items of council spending though (eg. should residents without children subsidise playgrounds in parks)  This time of the year a lot of the leaves that go in my brown bin are from the councils trees on the pavement and road that they don't bother to clear.

Are the surrounding wards getting CPZs? If so then it may just move parking pressure to Dulwich Hill leading to residents requesting a CPZ down the line.

Hi mcbilkur,

my daughter uses the 185 to get to and from school and the timetable can always be a bit erratic I think mainly due to traffic on the route. She uses the TfL Go app to check when the buses are due as this uses the same source as the Countdown timers and that seems to be the most reliable way. I think like a lot of bus routes the timetable is a nice idea but isn't accurate due to traffic / roadworks / driver changes etc.

19 hours ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

What I have yet to hear, is why people think that everyone else should subsidise free on street car storage, on top of all the other externalised costs of motoring visited upon others. 

You could apply that argument to any form of taxation - should people who don't have children have to contribute to schools, should people who don't use libraries have to contribute to those, should people who don't ride a bike contribute to the building of cycle lanes etc etc.

I'm not sure how mixing a school street with buses is going to work. Whereas other school streets are completely closed to motorised traffic this seems like the potential for confusion is high. The junction of Friern Road and Etherow Street is already pretty bad for parking violations at school pick up and drop off. I can't see this improving that. 

Hmm this is slightly awkward https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/01/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-anna-goodman-removes-poster-cctv/

10 minutes ago, exdulwicher said:

Process of validation, time, resources, the fact that most people don't understand data anyway and it needs to be worked up into a presentable format showing clear information about pollution/traffic trends... Quarterly updates are about as precise as you need to be and to factor in seasonal variations, school holiday periods etc but annual works just as well for that. Air pollution in particular is not easy to monitor or model because it's so weather dependent (although as a general rule the fewer emissions going into the air from whatever source - transport, heating etc, the better...)

I agree with that approach as long as the council made the raw traffic count and pollution data available to the public (who are paying for it to be collected after all) - not sure if it would be covered under the Freedom of Information Act.

I think doing that would allow independent analysis of the data and would show that the council is not manipulating, skewing or cherry picking data.

The terrapins have been there for many years. I remember looking at them sunning themselves on the rocks when my daughter was small enough to go to the infants playground and that is at least seven years ago.

There is also Supa Ya Ramen on Rye Lane https://goo.gl/maps/iv7cxrGWCtXF4TQS9

What flawed statistics? You mean specific local vehicle counts, or the body of academic research on LTNs in general (all of which points to reductions in traffic and pollution where LTNs have been introduced...for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920922003625)

 

I don't see the problem with flawed statistics with that paper as they will just analyse the data provided to them. The issue is more likely to be with "traffic volume data provided by the local authority" If Islington have done similar to Southwark where traffic counters are placed in locations where traffic is too slowly moving to record accurate counts then it is worthless. The "garbage in - garbage out" principle applies.

You can see where the buses are in real time on this website https://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/london-buses/#P13

Doesn't seem to be many buses on the P13 route today.

RE. Lordship Lane, I just wish the council would remove a lot more of the parking, widen the pavements, put in a bit more seating, planting and bike parking -

 

Not sure that would work in practice as widening the pavements would remove the bus lanes leaving a single lane each way. Every time a bus stopped all the traffic in that direction would come to a standstill and the idling would result in increased pollution - not exactly the ideal environment to sit in.

I think the key passage in that BBC story is "Traffic data from 46 LTN scheme across 11 boroughs reported the mean percentage reduction of traffic on streets within them was 46.9%" It isn't really a surprise traffic is down when the road is inaccessible to vehicles for some or all of the time.

The story goes on to note that 96 LTN schemes were introduced which means 50 have been discounted from the study. Hardly a complete picture.

If the closed / not closed Dulwich Village junction is to be permanent then I think the road set-up around it needs to be changed. I'd like to see on street parking removed from Eynella Road, Court Lane, Carlton Avenue and Woodwarde Road with those roads being divided into a two way cycle lane on one side and a clockwise running one way road system on the other. It would make it a lot safer for cyclists and would allow for the P4 bus to be rerouted down Court Lane and through the junction.

I have gone to Highshore Road sorting office twice to pick up mail - once I was able to get a couple of items, the other I came away empty handed.

I think it depends upon how busy they are and how helpful the person at the counter feels. The time I got nothing was a couple of months ago and I was told there was a large amount of unsorted mail which would make it too time consuming to find an item.

BBC News has an article on the problems in East Dulwich https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63780196

I just received a letter today that was dated 4th August - luckily it wasn't too time critical. It was only sent from Bishopsgate - I think I could have delivered it more quickly crawling on my hands and knees.

Water is free in Scotland, just saying.

 

That no longer appears to be the case https://www.gov.scot/policies/water/water-charges-and-exemptions/ and https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/paying_for_a_home/other_housing_costs/water_charges

I don't have a problem with the principle of people paying for the resources they use especially when we are getting to a stage where we need to be more aware of our personal usage.

I guess when it comes to dodgy expense claims, a former MP (Norman Baker) probably has the inside track. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5315118/Campaigning-Norman-Baker-MP-claimed-for-a-new-bicycle-and-broadband-MPs-expenses.html)

Looking at Google Streetview (

) that roof has been a bit of a mess since 2019 although it looks as though the recent storms have made it worse.

Reporting it was definitely the right thing to do.

> The problem is pure and simply that there are too

> many cars and now is the time to redress the

> balance in favour of other means of transport - be

> that walking, cycling, scooters, taxis, Ubers and

> buses.

Well I can't see too many buses, taxis or Ubers getting through the junction in the Village.

I'm not sure why the figures are only from June 2021 - the measures have been in a lot longer so why don't they show from when they were implemented? (and when are the -10% June, -12% Sept figures down from? - is it year on year, month on month etc?)

Interesting article just published in Wired magazine https://www.wired.co.uk/article/escooters-accidents-europe that references the problems other cities have experienced along with the ban the Royal Parks have on them.

A e-scooter is certainly easier to get on and ride than an e-bike with no physical effort required. Perhaps this makes them more likely than a bike to be used after a few beers.

Mark Rober has done a few iterations of fake packages to catch out parcel thieves

We have also used Brown & Co many times and always found them to be helpful. We've always been happy with the finished product.