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London doesn’t have a lot of Argentinian places specialising in empanadas, which suggests demand isn’t that great. There are many neighbourhoods with none at all or even nearby. So for a mini-chain like Chango (several branches in SW London) to open here where there’s already a well established family run place doing the same feels a bit off. I’ll be giving Chacarero my ongoing custom.

Same here. Have attended Gala for a few years, went on Sunday. Decent crowd and one that’s very unlikely to be stabby as suggested by another poster. A load of young people having fun and that’s part of the service that London parks should provide from time to time. I do agree though that one long weekend a year is enough and is a fair compromise for all though. Two weekends of events would be unfair to those living nearby. Fair to say that many attendees are not from the direct local area but plenty of them are from south London and made their way into Nunhead and east Dulwich afterwards. As for noise we couldn’t hear anything from north west of Peckham Rye but I can imagine it was loud for those east of it. One of Gala’s outdoor stages was particularly loud but the main stage and the tents seemed to have noise limits on to the point of the main stage not being loud enough. Anyone in Dulwich / Herne Hill hearing music over the weekend would have been hearing XtheTracks and the other events in Brockwell park (could hear it from Dulwich park yesterday), not Gala.

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Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a real shame that the cross river partnership > failed in their bid to bring trams back to Peckham > town centre and up to north of the river via > Holborn ten plus years ago. > > My impression at the time was that local vocals > both at this end of the route (mainly objecting to > the depot being in the town centre) and at various > points along the route caused it to lose support. > > > Cross river were considering extending it to meet > up with the Croydon tram if it was implemented > > How short sighted were people in objecting to it > as it would have been a clean green transport > method helping to reduce our reliance on cars. I have lived in cities with great tram networks, but the proposed cross river tram was never going to work well. It would necessarily be routed along roads and be held up in congestion like buses, and would replicate the route served by the 343 and 136. Also the plans as they evolved meant that only the Peckham to Waterloo section would be built first, and then they hoped to get Camden and other boroughs to agree to having trams and following suit. Notably the planned southern route to Peckham would go down Heygate St and Thurlow St and miss out Walworth Road and Camberwell completely so query how useful it would be for many areas. As for vocal locals objecting, well the plan was to demolish the entire Bussey Building/Copeland Park site to build a giant tram depot which would have had disastrous effects on Peckham town centre. Some of the buildings around Peckham High St would also have had to go. It took a lot of lobbying and petitioning to persuade councillors and TFL to look for other sites.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a real shame that the cross river partnership > failed in their bid to bring trams back to Peckham > town centre and up to north of the river via > Holborn ten plus years ago. > > My impression at the time was that local vocals > both at this end of the route (mainly objecting to > the depot being in the town centre) and at various > points along the route caused it to lose support. > > > Cross river were considering extending it to meet > up with the Croydon tram if it was implemented > > How short sighted were people in objecting to it > as it would have been a clean green transport > method helping to reduce our reliance on cars. I have lived in cities with great tram networks, but the proposed cross river tram was never going to work well. It would necessarily be routed along roads and be held up in congestion like buses, and would replicate the route served by the 343 and 136. Also the plans as they evolved meant that only the Peckham to Waterloo section would be built first, and then they hoped to get Camden and other boroughs to agree to having trams and following suit. Notably the planned southern route to Peckham would go down Heygate St and Thurlow St and miss out Walworth Road and Camberwell completely so query how useful it would be for many areas. As for vocal locals objecting, well the plan was to demolish the entire Bussey Building/Copeland Park site to build a giant tram depot which would have had disastrous effects on Peckham town centre. Some of the buildings around Peckham High St would also have had to go. It took a lot of lobbying and petitioning to persuade councillors and TFL to look for other sites.

Yes, I'll update if and when the police update me. In the meantime, to assuage the concerns of those generously offering the benefit of doubt above - the van pulled up, the driver stayed inside while the passenger opened the back up and then loaded a new-ish and reasonably expensive-looking bike into it which had been fixed to a lamp-post. The man pictured was wearing a cap and face mask and covered his face from me when he saw me filming. I could not see whether he cut the lock or had a key, so I can't confirm definitively that it was stolen as requested above. But the fact pattern strongly suggests so. Not clear why the possibility of them being scrap metal dealers and/or whether the van is stolen (unsure how you checked this?) would have any bearing on this.