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Elsie, Tintagel and Derwent do not have schools on them. Melbourne has a school entrance on part of it, not the full length. Heber has no restrictons (DYLs and zigzags aside) and Goodrich is likewise free of any intervention despite schools being right on those roads. I don't know how much the powers taht be use such location specifics in their plans for LTNs.

Walking in and around DV and along E D Grove I again remarked that school holidays make for MUCH quieter roads, even after the times usually related to dropping kids off and picking them up. Only one school replied to my queries over their respective approach to and views on how staff and pupils get to work. If the council did more to get them to reduce the number of car trips made during term time a decent amount of congestion and pollution would be prevented.

I agree with malumbu - so many ill informed people only have themselves to blame, given the big coverage on all media and by TfL etc. TfL brought it in during half-term (for many) so it is likely to act as a kind of soft landing, which is sensible. Money has to be spent to publicise such actions, of course, but only up to a point.

Watch BBC4 while you can - it is being cancelled and its output blended into BBC2, etc. (It does have a lot of repeats, I know, but they are of quality and in-depth programmes.) BBC3, once cast into the wilderness of the internet, is now back on as a standard TV channel so 4 has to go. As for the new show, not my cuppa tea and I think the genre is starting to show its age on all channels and with all subjects. Something else will come along to replace it eventually. Big Brother and Sylvana Waters were the early examples of reality, all the way back into the late nineties for the latter so I can't see this type of show lasting much longer than '25.

Dogs are great and loveable but don't belong in a pub or restaurant, unless they're a guide dog. Leave them at home and allow those who don't like them, have allergies or fears around them, to enjoy a neutral space freely. Bring them back a doggy bag!

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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.

Sprinkles

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.)