Nigello

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.)

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.)

Dog Kennel Hill is far from Walworth Road, so how does that fit in with its shrinking rollcall?

Policing the DYLs of a morning and afternoon on all corners would be a cheaper and more profitable solution, at least in the short term!

Maybe, and/or other "solutions" but the blokes in fluorescent kit only talked about measures in general.

As for wearing masks indoors by workpeople....? Because there is no official rule, people are using their own rules. I think that is fair enough, at this stage in the pandemic. If you want someone you have in your home whose vaccine status you don't know, just ask them to wear one or go away! Simple

Stare

Space

many families walk in the road - then don't! It is a ROAD not a FOOTPATH and as such is there for permissible wheeled vehicles, like bikes, e-bikes, scooters, wheelchairs, etc. LTNs are not just about pedestrians - they are there for certain forms of transport, just not motorised ones. Take care!

I don't understand - how come it is permissible to go across council borders if there are schools that have places to fill in your home council? Or have I misunderstood? Can't really understand the idea of local level school administration - why not be national, like in France?

Men in full flouro kit with theodolites measuring up for plans that will be used by the council when setting out new road measures in and around Goodrich, they say. (They measure everything so a scale plan can be used by the council when they are deciding on doing whatever they decide to do.)

It is just to allow cyclists to know that this is an alternative route and not necessarily a proper, sanctioned one.

Does this mean that classroom numbers will necessarily fall? If so, could this be a plus-point from this situation?

Why not allow mopeds below a certain CC through these roadblocks. In time they'll be electric and not as noisy. On the whole I think two-wheels, whether motorised or not, are much less of a problem in terms of congestion and pollution than four-wheeled vehicles (even the leccy ones take up a bigger physical footprint on the road, after all). If cycles, which can go at a fair lick, are allowed then why not Vespas, etc? Are LTNs about pollution, congestion, safety, sending signals? Hmmm

Perhaps it is part of the London-wide cycle network, or simply a nudge to remind people that cycling is an option. I think road closures will be few and far between given the LTN debacle. (I wish the council would encourage and make safer walking by making overgrown bush owners cut them back and smoothing out dips and trip-hazards on footpaths as well as promoting cycling, which I am in favour of.)

? There is violence that derives from two men trying to go illegally through a barrier ,commonly referred to as LTN although that actually means the area rather than the means to make it low-traffic. It is shorthand - please don't see it as anything more than that. Sheesh - talk about sensitive! The men were told no to go through by well-meaning citizen/nosy parker, depending on your point of view, got arsey and violent. Up to you whether you prefer to discount facts and/or put a motive on the article writer and/or EDF poster.