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A few trees have been removed recently in and around. About ten are to go in Peckham Rye Park, near to the Colyton Road entrance - the ones either side of the path to the lake. I am confident they will be replaced though it's sad when so many planted at (probably) the same time have proved duff.

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Done - it takes about five or so minutes, longer if you fill in the boxes (which I did).

Surely just adding ten pence to every ticket (or maybe even fifty pence) could cover it? They'd lose a bit of money, perhaps, on sales, but Bonfire Night without a bonfire isn't worth turning up for.

Malumbu - I admire your positivity. Councillors and officers like the idea of shiny, continental-looking trams because it helps them and their locale punch above their weight. Trams are very expensive and yet cities and towns in teh UK continue to want them instead of cheaper and equivalent-in-terms-of-bodies-moved guided buses or trolleybuses. I fear that even with the push for the bus in London other forms of transport - trams, light rail, cycling, e-biking - are much more attractive to politicians. Buses are great - I use them much more than trains and don't have a vehicle of any kind, including cycling, so I walk and bus mostly. They do need a revamp in terms of some routes and the vehicles used - a smaller bus would be able to get up the hill to Honor Oak Park station, but I have resigned myself to thinking it won't happen.

What costs are likely to be paid if a school is made to close? Do they compensate staff for wages, etc?

Buses, alas, are the cinderella service of public transport. Councillors and officers prefer nice and fancy continental-style trams of big-hitting commuter rail, as well as young-focused cycling (though I know they try to attract others to cycling, so fair play). They are vital to an integrated system. Sure, their provision needs tweaking - do we need, for example, double-deckers on all routes at all times - but we need them to feed into rail and underground, etc.

Heartblock, you suggested a link so why not set one up in the lounge and ask admin to pin it at the top somewhere? People can then just add a reply with where they know (NOT THINK) there is one.

So, is there a list?

And - pet peeve - Dr Bike could take away the free ad after his or her laying on of hands to bikes and trikes! Left alone they usually fall off and create litter - same goes for all those house sale/missing cat signs taped to trees and lampposts that stay until the wind takes them, looking ragged and pin-rusted before that for weeks.

I read recently that shredded paper is not to go in recycling bins for paper, card, etc. because it somehow affects the quality of the otherwise good paper products in the mix. The source - a green living page on Instagram - says adding it to compost (your own bin, not municipal ones) is advised instead.

I agree with jazzer - looking back at pictures of the Lane right up to the mid-80s does show a different place entirely. Demographics change and no doubt the look of the Lane will too, but right now it is unloved and the same standards that apply to, say North Cross Road, do not apply in SE15, which is wrong. Everyone deserves to shop in a clean and welcoming environment and the Lane is not always that, what with its litter, rotting vegetable matter, masses of scrawl on walls and shutters, etc. Maybe Southwark think people with limited budgets don't mind as long as their pounds go further. I hope not, because this would be condescending and discriminatory, even.

I agree that the best solution to how to get bus passengers to the railway station is to use a standard London bus, not a standard London bus and then a mini bus run by goodness knows who. As for closing it at night - just give it a rest, zealous councillors and officers!

As if "closing more roads" is always the right answer.

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We need both but I think social housing pips skateparks especially when there is limited land. (It is possible to be pro housing and pro skateparks but also have a rational appreciation of housing needs over those of slim-demographic leisure, so please consider this before a harumph-driven riposte.)

Children's Cafe (that is its name) on corner of Peckham Rye and E Dulwich Road, where the Kumon place was. Looks nice but not sure whether it is for under-age cappuccino fiends or their parents to accompany them!

Good idea re thread - think a separate one in Lounge would work best. Perhaps the Admin could even open up a new category, under Covid-19, perhaps, so it is easy to reference. (I won't start that new thread, heartblock, as you were the one to suggest it.)

Yes - good to be asked. I rarely see anyone make use in great numbers of the widened pavement (which it isn't really - there is still a kerb down) and think it was more use at the beginning of the pandemic when many distancing measures were ebing put in place out of caution).

I agree it is good for the pocket and the CV but students may have more studying to do, especially on vocational courses, than some of us used to have. Not only the students to point this out to - retired or semi-retired with time and bags of life and work experience could also benefit and may well be better at memorising those tricky three-item orders than some waitrons a few decades younger....!

I think mopeds, etc. should be allowed. They are nippy, more accessible in terms of purchasing than cars, more and more likely to be electric and take less space and emit far less than most petrol and diesel vehicles. By being restricive on cars teh road blocks are not taking into account such forms of transport which are at least helping drive down emissions and congestion. No need to throw the baby out with the bath water. (I do not not own and never have owned a Vespa-type bike so not talking from a biased point of view.)