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Or just accept and acknowledge the tree people are pro-tree and not soot-eating, chlorophyll-hating savages and that many new trees are being planted. (Two on LL near Court, two near the new zebra on Whately, etc.

Very welcome to have back, as is the support from aquamanda and her colleagues. Some businesses are good at offering spaces for art - Mrs Robinson, the Magdala pub and the Mary Portas-inspired charity shop are three that spring to mind - but so many others shut up shop and leave teh rest of us to suffer the ugly, vandalised shutters with no effort whatsoever to clean it off. Unimpressed but not surprised

I think it is a bit of a pain to change, but less of a pain than not having any bus at all. Maybe the money saved could one day be used to fund minibuses to supplement the bigger/longer routes, ie. providing a cross-borough or cross-neighbourhood route.

Ditch the mayorship as it stands here and elsewhere- another layer of mostly impotent roles and all the flummery that goes with it. Or make the role much more powerful and conflate all the boroughs in major conurbations (London, Manchester, Glasgow, Sheffield etc.) into a proper city status. Khan is uninspiring yet believes he?s a true potentate. Ken had some style and a popular touch. Boris had charisma and energy as mayor but used it as a stepping stone.

Show me a businessman or woman who is not interested in making more money, and therefore not interested in ways to try to do that, and I'll show you a unicorn. That is the nub of the matter - this place is full of posts lamenting the way in whcih the main drag has changed and others that tell of great woes in retail so not capitalising on a chance to make things better for themselves and their employees - even if it is just a chance - is strange indeed. But if you want to make it about how with it you are for showing your republican (and therefore desirable and to be lauded) tendencies, go ahead - add it to the list of misconceptions this place is so famous for...

Typical hyperbolic and virtue signalling (because virtue, of course, equals bashing anything that has to do with tradition or, shock horror, a flag) responses to a measured and balanced position. Nobody talked about forcing anyone to do anything; I think those who are nettled are secretly embarrassed at their lack of community spirit. Bottom line, if you are able to stick up some flags for the footy or some sparkling lights for Xmas, knowing that you are likely to chime in with a fair few customers or potential customers, why not do it for another national celebration and see whether it does make for a few extra quid in the till. Money talks and Lordship Lane needs as much help as it can get - or haven't you seen the threads on closed stores and the over-abundance of expensive coffee shops?

Poor show by most of the proprietors of business - chain and private - on LL. Mrs Robinson, The Palmerston and a few others (the dentist at the G Green end and the florist also did great jobs) - but the others simply CNBA. Even if they're not even remotely royalists or not from a UK or Commonwealth heritage, don't they understand that practically any gimmick is good for business, especially as retail is recovering from massive body blows from lockdowns and their knock on effects. Like attracts like, so if the frontages look welcoming and festive the businesses they belong to may very well get more footfall. (Eg. Xmas lights and decos or footy bunting during the Euros, etc. are par for the course.) Not impressed and don't rate their community spirit or their commitment to helping all retailers out after a torrid time. (Did the council or any local business organisation not have any thoughts on this?)

Good work and great that there is a matt covering to help clear off any vandalism or other marks.

Yes, I keep a couple of tenners in my wallet in case but really don't like the jangliness and heaviness of coins. Bring back pound notes....

BlueLeaf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > By the way, it may be more effective to complete > the official survey: > https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/busreview Agreed - waffling and whining on here is never likely to effect positive change.

The one-four-eight will pick up the slack. TfL is a costly thing to run so I can understand where the thinking is on this. I do think there are too many buses at certain times, resulting in bunching and extended journey times, which is good for noone and not the environment, either - static or near static diesel buses end to end is not a good look for TfL which is keen to burnish its green(ish) credentials.

We have lots of buses, Asset. We have three routes along nearly all of LL, then the smaller routes (P4, 485, P13, P12 etc.) and the Rye Lane routes down to E and C and beyond. I agree it is not a good idea to take away this route but to pretend we don't have a decent if not good number of routes is wrong.

Thanks - very useful

The 453 goes to Oxford Circus and up Regent St north. Another route, if you are near the northern end of Barry, is the 63 or 363 to Elephant then a change to 453. Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Consultation here > https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/busreview > > There is proposal to reroute the 148 to cover the > Camberwell Green, Peckham, Rye Lane, Barry Road > sections but it does remove the ability to get to > Oxford Circus as a change would be needed at > Parliament Square.

DK_87 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Megan?s in DV is verging on disgraceful with how > bad the food and service is. ?Megan?s on the > Lordship? is fully disgraceful with the branding. > What the actual F***k is ?the Lordship??? What was the problem/s? Did you let them know,and what did they say back?

Yes - I can see that such basic skills as taking money and giving the (correct) change could easily get lost. Next step, automated shopkeepers (who at least won't be on the phone)...

Perhaps emails to our MP are needed - writetothem will give you the address and requirements (eg. putting down all personal information to ensure a response).

I think Amex foots the bill. It is to get more people using it and more shops and businesses to accept it, because Amex users tend to spend more on their credit card than users of Visa, etc. or debit cards. (It used to be more expensive for shops and firms to accommodate Amex but that is less the case now, I am told but I don't know the full facts.)

Re Amex - you need to register via your online account, I think, for that cashback offer. I hope Luca?s is participating again. The full brekky I had there was very good.

Exactly - Pets have advantages for owners and wider society but they also have disadvantages. The idea that all pets are a very good thing is nonsense as is the idea of banning leashed dogs from public property. If you?re very concerned about ecology and the environment then don?t get a pet and save tonnes of carbon and reduce gosling menacing at the same time.

Banning all dogs because one bird of a pest species was wounded by one dog seems a tiny bit of an exaggerated response but typical of lazy and reflexive thinking these days, helped a lot by the ubiquity of social media. Leads on, by all means, but a ban...well, not really .

Yes, and Luca's often participates in the Amex rebate, where you spend at least fifteen quid in one go and get a fiver back on you account. (Other shops and businesses do this, such as Mons, so if you have an Amex you may find other small biz people in and around this area who are doing the promotion in June.)

Families still will be able to watch together, either live (because the channels are not being taken off air) or via iplayer, at a time that suits them all.

Piermont Green has a 5 June street party, I think. Please check !

BBC World is the telly, and not available to people here, only abroad, becuase is is partly funded by ads. World Service is the radio, which is not merging with anything. The new TV channel will be BBC News and will have opt outs, I think, for when the global news agenda is radically different from waht is happening at home.