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I sent this thread on to Tom Edwards, BBC London's Transport reporter.

Eww, the awnings at The Actress look a bit grubby! (see image)

The PCL is looking for input from people: Also, part of the Peckham Coal Line project is to celebrate and record the heritage of SE15. By working with other local groups uncovering Peckham?s history, we want to collect and present memories people have of the area incorporating the coal yard, Bussey Building and Copeland Park Estate. What we'd like to end up with is a series of people profiles that, together, tell the story of the area from as far back as living memory allows to today. These might be people who remember when the yard was used for coal storage and distribution, through to the time before the Bussey Building and Copeland Park was turned into the thriving arts and community treasure it is today. If you?ve any suggestions as to who we should talk to, drop us a line at [email protected] .

What about a double-glazed one from somewhere like the place that does sash windows on the parade of shops near Dulwich Library?

The 176 night buses are more modern than the day versions and are used at night because they have CCTV on them, I read.

It is a partly-used track - mostly on a viaduct, I think - that the developers want to turn into a walkable and cycblable pathway to link two parts of Peckham and to regenerate the areas throught/over which it passes.

In a few years Rye Lane is going to be unrecognizable which I know is inevitable but part of me is going to miss its current incarnation. Will you really miss the muck, squalor and illegal parking? I won't. I am glad that things are moving and changing. I don't want a bland high street by any means, but I do want basic levels of access and hygiene. I hope the food markets, the independent stall holders, the pound shops and Iceland remain, but I also want more variety of shopping/banking/enertainment options. Three cheers for the new, independent optician, for example, and for the great little shops in Haldrons Arcade. Boos a-plenty for those shops that litter and block traffic. To justify bad practice so as to champion "coolness" and "vibe" is lamentable and risible at the same time.

If a couple of cycle "super highways" can be blasted through I am sure that TfL has the wherewithal to free up a couple of parking spaces. It just depends on will and interest. Still wondering why it takes a year for the implementation of the new extension to No 42 route kicks in....

Why does it have to take another year? At this rate the 63 extension to HOP may arrive in 2025!

I don't have a car, haven't used one since 2000, walk and take public transport daily and very, very rarely use a taxi but I really don't like either the idea of or the implementation of the L'boro Jctn measures. That area needs movement, not cutting off like a cordon sanitaire. When you add in all the bother at Oval and Elephant it really does seem like nobody thought it through and simply wanted to be seen to be doing something radical.

Clockworkorange for president!

Nice images. FYI for next time, the fog was thicker further up the hill towards Dulwich Library. Near to Goodrich School/Donkey Alley it was a real pea souper at times. (Frost tends to stay longer on the pavement and on cars up there, too.)

Next (or very near) to the chippy on Underhill, near the junction with Barry, a shop has a sign outside saying it will soon be a cafe. Hope it does well.

offspinner I disagree. I am all in favour of buses being accessible to all, but a stop every three hundred yards is de trop. One has to think of the common good: bus stops are not bespoke! These clumped-together stops are not just on hills.

I am a bus fan but the current state of affairs - lengthy journeys and random changing of destinations due to the roadworks at Elephant - is very poor. I would love there to be an express option at least every half hour and I really think some stops ought to be taken out of service. Why are there, for example, three stops between the bottom of Barry Road and the crossroads of Peckham Rye and ED Road. Why are there four stops from Denmark Hill to Dog Kennel Hill? It baffles me. Also, has the amount of services increased in the past five years to take into account increase in population etc? As for the trains, the Overground option is good. If only the 63 went all the way to HOP station..

Will you be living near to the station? If you are up past the police station/school-to-be, you will have to add a ten-to-thirty minute walk (depending on where you are) or factor in a crowded bus journey (that could take at least ten minutes in traffic).

I am with spider69. It's like something out of Quatermass at the moment and really needs to be dragged into daylights, as well as the 21st century.

Flyr, Did you ask the driver to slow down - perhaps at a stop so you weren't distracting him or her? It's perfectly reasonable to do so. I spoke to a driver who had gone through a red light; if I hadn't he may well have continued to do so. Asking a councillor to intervene is useful but so is acting on the spot.

Wood now removed but barriers near to the Friern/Goodrich junction remain.

I reported a "ponding issue" on the pavement on Goodrich Road. It was worked on but the barriers, cones and bits of wood and guttering were left for at least eight days. I rang the 0330 number provided on the sign attached to a remaining barrier on Wednesday and a (polite, efficient-sounding) man said he'd sort it out. A Conway man and van arrived the next day, while I was in. The cones and barriers were taken away but not the five-foot pieces of wood, with nails sticking through. Neither were other barriers slightly further down the road taken away, despite the man saying he would look at them after I'd asked him politely to do so and giving him the right location and despite my having done this already in my initial call. So, I had to ring the 0330 number again and request that the job be finished off. (I do not know whether it has been done yet.) Cllr Barber also requested the stuff be removed, so perhaps that request got there before mine. Either way, it is not a good result for Conway (though the man on the end of the phone line was good both times I rang).

It's amazing but true that BA - when booked on the website - offer really good deals, especially if you take only hand luggage. By the time you add in extras on "budget" airlines and the expense and faff of getting to places like Luton and Stansted (which auto-correct would have as "stagnated"), BA and other traditional airlines are very good value. Their flights tend not to go at unpleasant times, too.

FYI - Conway detritus (cones, bits of discarded wood, barriers) - left opposite Goodrich school have been reported to Conway. Why the firm cannot clean up after itself is beyond me.

The "so" at the start of a sentence allows the speaker to be dominant because its use suggests that s/he has knowledge of what is about to come whilst the interlocutor does not. However, I don't think for a moment that most of the current "so" users do it for that purpose: they're just following fashion in the same way as those who say "gotten" or "here's the thing" are.

I heard from a neighbour that the strip of land behind the railings of the school on Goodrich Road is going to be "greened". The school has put out to tender the contract for doing so and at least one person is submitting a plan. The plants/trees won't be able to be too tall lest they restrict light into the windows, which start about five feet or so from the ground. Anyone know anything else about this? Hope that the trees/plants will complement the crab apples already on that side of the street and will be at least a little wildlife-friendly.

Parkin, toffee apples, treacle toffee, swede lanterns (the first three will do for Bonfire Night as well).