Curmudgeon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We have local community schools with very small > catchment areas and parents shouldn?t be driving > their kids to school in the first place, unless > there are disability issues. > > My personal niggle is that the double yellow lines > that have been recently put in on the corners of > most roads have done nothing to improve safety. > The roads are clearly too narrow and the angles > too steep to impact on safely pulling out or > crossing. The only consequence has been to make > residential parking far more difficult and > neighbours far more likely to be unneighbourly. I > do wonder at the level of expertise of the people > who planned, voted on and implemented these > measures You are right about the 'school run'- part of that problem are the faith schools in the area- faith schools should NOT be included when assessing the number of primary places available because their catchment area is the whole of the south east London catholic population and having worked in a faith school or 2 I know how they allocate places - atheists are at the bottom of the consideration. You are right about the yellow lines- they certainly do not help pedestrians as I walk around these streets frequently and cannot see what is coming any better. I can only think that they are helping the explosion of building related vehicles turn right and left. The level of 'expertise' who planned, voted on etc is purely rooted in spending the allocated money before April, and politics- AND as a person with various relatives in the construction industry I can tell you that there is massive fraudulent activity...let's not forget who voted for this particular ruling Council either- and it was not me (I've been around here for too long, have met too many people with stories to tell, and I've attended council meetings and I'm appalled