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Earlier thread is here. I'm grudgingly in favour of the proposed one way system - I would much rather the P13 bus had been re-routed, but for so long as it's going to run down that bit of Melford Road and parking is allowed there, the one-way bit seems necessary to me. The problem is (as I said in the earlier post) that it does make it rather harder and more confusing to get into Melford Road/Wood Vale as there is currently no right turn allowed into Wood Vale or Underhill Road if you are heading down Lordship Lane from Forest Hill. Overhill Road/Beaval will be the way most people choose, and that already gets quite jammed up (as SimonM has said).

That's my understanding - you will be able to turn out from Melford Road onto LL. To get into Melford Road you'll either have to turn down Overhill Road or Wood Vale. I also found the original consultation doc from Southwark - the proposal was put forward by TFL Bus Priority as an alternative to re-routing the P13 bus which runs down there and regularly gets stuck at the bottom.

As far as I know, there were two proposals - to make that part of Melford Road one way and/or to limit the amount of on-street parking at the junction with Lordship Lane so that it was easier for traffic to get out of the road (particularly the bus that runs down there). Both proposals were agreed and I believe this is the first stage of the works. In particular, they are narrowing the width of the turning into/out onto Lordship Lane which suggests it's more than resurfacing works.

Sue, I've never heard of this organisation, but I note their website is registered to an individual and at a residential address in Wigan. This doesn't mean they aren't legit, but it's a bit unusual - normally this would be in the name of the business - unless the company is a total startup.

Sorry - I misread your original post as black and white!

Have you seen this thread in one of the other forums? Sounds like others have seen him too.

You might want to add your email address then...a quick google suggests: [email protected]

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mikecg Wrote: > > > My highlight of the whole thing was waving ?10 > > notes out of the windows at the protesters > HAHA! > > You seem to have a bit of a talent for making > yourself look a total cock. I read that as a bit tongue in cheek, much like the below: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/8901.cntns

Aren't there two issues here: 1. the rude man (I think everyone here agrees he was rude and boorish). Like others, I can see why he may have overreacted - not condoning his actions or agreeing with them - but I can see where his head may have been. A few months ago I was standing at a cashpoint when the woman in front of me got very agitated and kept looking round at me and dropping her stuff. I asked her if she was ok, and she said she thought I was standing way too close to her. It was a crowded pavement at lunchtime, and I was about two feet away from her, but it made her feel uncomfortable (and I'm a girl!) which honestly hadn't occurred to me. He genuinely may not have understood how upset your wife was by his physical prescence. 2. the staff at HSBC - here I have sympathy for your wife/partner. She was obviously upset and needed a bit of looking after and support. She's a customer in their branch and they are supposed to provide customer service. Making jokes about it doesn't seem like the right way to handle it.

I've only just noticed that on Google Street View, the little man icon (used to show where you are viewing on the map) has become a panda for the day. Apparently this is for AFD, though not quite sure what the connection is!

This picture pretty much sums it up for me - taken outside the RBS branch that got trashed - 1:20 ratio of protestors to photographers... http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45623000/jpg/_45623824_rbs_window_pa_2.jpg

General protestor tactics seem to be to create an air of confusion and/or get max publicity. Just walked past someone who was shouting she'd been teargassed (with a crowd of journalists round her). Er, no love - although someone has set off a (red) smoke can at the edges of one of the groups near the Bank of England...

I'm also in my office in the City, but by the sounds of it at a (much smaller) company which taking a slightly more laisse faire attitude to the whole thing. I can't help thinking that the amount of hype/spin which has been put out into the media makes this a win/win for the police and a lose/lose for the protestors. Either the whole thing passes off without incident (in which case the police can claim to have successfully managed potentially violent protestors and justify the enormous amount of money spent on this operation) or the whole thing kicks off entirely (in which case the police can claim that these are dangerous anarchists/terrorists and justify the enormous amount of money spent on this operation). I've worked through several of these kinds of events before and AFIAK the only one that has ever really caused any serious damage/violence in the City was in 1999 - and my impression at the time was that the police entirely provoked that confrontation (I had a great view of the whole thing). It's been to the City of London police's credit that they've not used those tactics since. Besides, I'm guessing the really serious protestors have been smart enough to keep their real objectives and targets quiet. I suspect they're nowhere close to the City - but I guess time will tell.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there an emote which denotes lack of emote, an > anti-smiley if you will? (=o\ is probably closest (=*shrugs*) but not the most obvious one out there, so you'd probably get a big fat whoosh most of the time. Or there's this: http://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/extra3/shrug.gif

Megastructures and/or Monarchy (parts 1 and 2)? Depends what you're in to really. Note that some of the international (non-UK) versions of the Monarchy DVDs appear to be abridged.

Battlestar Galactica. S1-4 out on DVD. S5 just finished on Sky (but I haven't yet seen the final ep, so please no spoilers!). Dark, comic, epic, twisted sci-fi. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5939054.ece

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan I've been to Italy many times and I have > not once seen people walking the streets with a > pizza. In fact the only pizza place i've seen out > there is Pizza Hut (Rome I think). Dear Louisa, you're in danger of taking this persona a step too far. No-one who has ever been to Italy (esp. Rome) is going to fall for that... Edited to say - opps, I see someone has (though I suspect cassius assumed it was a joke too). Sorry admin, last from me on the subject

And normally I would accept Branch Line edition (although, High Barnet, really?), but today Jamestown memorial rules apply, so I am reversing direction with with Mortlake...

I see your Kensal Rise and raise you Clerkenwell Bypass (today being the 22nd, so the Mortimer Variation is permitted in play)...which takes us nicely to... Pinner...

I'm currently undecided, but my personal election driver will be not to vote for a party which supports the introduction of ID cards. I have no significant objection to the cards themselves but do object to the proposed database which will sit behind them, the fact that it can be accessed by multiple departments who would not ordinarily have access to the information contained on it and most of all to the fact that the current proposals suggest that at some point in the future the government will allow selected third party access to the database by commercial companies such as insurers. More practically, as David Blunkett himself said at the end of Feb, all of the data which is necessary for the ID card scheme is already being received via the new style passport applications anyway, and in order to do this the government didn't need the ID cards Act in the first place, so I genuinely query why we're spending ?5.1bn on the program over the next ten years. It's my particular bugbear, and will have a disproportionate effect on the way I'm planning to vote as a result.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the problem with Bowie is that he has > released an awful lot of unmitigated shite. Every > now and then my playlists throw out a classic > track and I think 'yeah, that's what he could do'. What ruffers said. I wasn't quite 15 when Definitely Maybe was released but not that far off. That said, Golden Years and Wild is the Wind still blow me away, notwithstanding the "Labyrinth" years...

Last time we were in Sydney, we spent a morning wandering around here which also takes its name from Dulwich in the UK. From memory there is also a Lewisham Street and a Sydenham Hill in that area too.

I have no inside knowledge, but I'm not that surprised the patient group has an NHS email. Under the new GMS contract, the practice is supposed to have a patient group and the feedback from this group forms part of its performance assessment and is supposed to be independently monitored by the NHS. There is a patient group in Islington which has a similar email address, so I would guess these are set up automatically where required. I also took the reference to "and heartened to hear from others of the good things we are doing" to be to the refs to the patient group in the other thread, not the practice itself. Given what's been posted elsewhere, I understand the concerns, but as someone else said - if people feel this strongly about it, shouldn't they be trying to engage with the practice via the patient group? If you go to a patient group meeting, sound off about the practice and nothing ever gets reported back - then there's a pretty clear answer for you, but how do you know until you've tried?

This looks to be the new application: http://planningonline.southwarksites.com/planningonline2/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9530218 Essentially what is now proposed is a "complete replica" of the exterior of the existing building (in terms of height and elevation - and using similar exterior finishes), but as a new development of flats, on the basis that the current building is no longer capable of being restored without significant rebuilding.

Feel free to give me a great big 'whoosh' if I'm missing the sarcasm, but isn't the point to let people who live at both ends of the line to get into other parts of London easily (rather than being about travelling from one end to the other)? Personally I'm quite looking forward to a faster way to get to Canary Wharf (via Canada Water), Shoreditch and Highbury and Islington.