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I fear this "gabfest" will attract people who have their own views already fixed in stone - preaching to the converted or wanting to express their opposition. Don't talk more, just drive less and walk more and reduce your deliveries. It is simple. Carrots and sticks can help but it is ultimately up to YOU - yes, you - to ditch your vehicle or not. Don't get peeved if you see nobody else doing it - nobody really cares so just do your own thing without looking for a reward (other than self0-satisfaction and a knowledge you are helping, even just a little bit, to lower emissions and reduce congestion). Over to you.

Walk more. Drive less. Minimise deliveries. 🤷‍♂️

It?s also possible to get a printed confirmation by ringing the NHS number, according to reports I?ve read.

It is in the eye of the beholder. If you (by which I mean, any reader) prefer to see bad intent and use it as an occasion, perhaps, to show your virtue and caring nature, go ahead. Most people understand that a forum is a venue for views of all kinds and that conversations can go off in different directions, still aligned to the main thrust. I am content in my knowledge that I did not mean to belittle anyone's experience - in fact, I stated it quite openly. Some can do as I suggest, some can't - I don't have a hitlist of nurses, bakers, candlestick makers in my head when I make a comment!

Which is precisely why I ccouched it in my placatory terms, with "you" meaning "anyone reading this" - please don't take offence for yourself or anyone else where none was intended.

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/allservices - street care is the one to use in such circumstances. There are other headers that are to do with other areas, like bins, dog fouling, etc.

This is probably not the reply you want and it is not meant to be dismissive or uncaring, but walking a few extra stops is a good idea. Skip the whole length of the Lane, say, from Whateley down to E Dulwich station, takign advantage of the leafy quietness of Melbourne Grove (!) and burn a few calories to boot. Not everyone can, of course, but many people will be able to do that and may even like it. Sitting on a bus stewing is not ideal for your health, though I understand the frustration and don't want to make light of it.

I love fireworks but I think the tide is turning. I think they should be kept back for N Y Eve and Diamond Jubilee, etc. with a small show for Bonfire Night. I also think they should not be allowed to be bought over the counter. They used to feel special but now they pop and glitter every other week - boring and wasteful.

About three months ago I saw overflowing bins in Dulwich Park after one weekend with 15 degree temperatures and sent a picture to the local councillor and parks manager, suggesting bigger bins and/or more frequent emptying. I also said that other parks had this problem, so perhaps they - in the spirit of thinking ahead and extrapolating evidence - at the council decided to put bigger bins in more than just Dulwich Park? (The big bins there did appear a few weeks after the email was sent, so perhaps not!) I asked also for stickers on the bins suggesting people take their rubbish away if the bin was overflowing, but that has not happened.

Untatty does not equal gentrified. It means just that - neutral/pleasant to look at and certainly not "poshed up for moneyed blow ins". Why tolerate something that is ugly and can be easily improved to everyone's benefit?

I reported it to the council - 020 7525 2000 (or online). I agree that corner is a mess (not helped by the general tattiness of the shop's exterior!

I have written to Alleyn's, Jags and Dulwich College to ask what they are doing to prevent congestion and associated noxious emissions from motorised travel to and from their site, and how they plan to improve on their current performance. So much congestion is caused by parents driving their children to these schools, or sending them there in taxis or in coaches (the latter being much more environmentally friendly than if they were travelling via car, granted).

Yes, parents who use their children (either as passengers or as alongside-riders) mounting the pavement and thinking it IS OK BECAUSE I HAVE A CHILD are a pain. It's like a middle-class hall pass - I am nice and doing my bit so I should be allowed to barrel along the pavement and impede my fellow citizens who perhaps have no other choice but walk there to get to their destination in the least impactful way possible. If you do it, please stop and allow pedestrians to be, to coin the current parlance, "happy in their own space".

I agree that having stuff delivered (especially when you could walk or cycle or wheel to a local supermarket and back) could fill in the gaps left by fewer individual journeys. I do hope nobody on this forum is actually using the corner shop delivery services. If you are, please consider the consequences (apart from your almost instant satisfaction).

You can put the leaves around your plants in teh garden also, or dilute the tea taht is left when cooled down and use that to add to the watering can.

Much more needs to be expected from the several schools - state and private - in terms of reducing motorised vehicle trips in getting pupils to and from their premises. We all know and see the effects of the school holidays so we know that school traffic is a big part of the logjams. I think it is fair for any school in this part of the borough to do its utmost to reduce parent car/taxi trips to and from school. How they do it is up to them but they must do more.

If you have children and lots of them, then simply decide to organise your life so that you are less likely to negatively impact others (and yourself - be selfish!) Nobody is forcing you to have one, two, three children, or use a car to get them to school - you CHOOSE that and convince yourself you HAVE to act the way you do. Saying you have to do something is not based in reality - is a CHOICE, even if it brings you disadvantages now (and probably a lot more down the line).

Postcard Teas, just off New Bond Street and very near to Oxford Street, is a nice shop and has great teas though it is on the specialist/?? side.

Please, someone who is a F H Road surgery patient, pass this thread on to a doctor there. Otherwise it is just ranting and will achieve nothing.

Whilst it may not be valid for teh average person, encouraging local businesses and delivery firms to use a bike like Karim's instead of a Vespa, etc. or even a car would be helpful. I despair that folk are now using delivery firms to get them expensive ice cream and kettle crisps because they simply C B A to get up from their sofas - such a lot of extra fumes and underspent calories cannot be sustainable! (I am pleased that they offer employment and create taxes, of course, though I would prefer other ways of doing this.)

ANyone putting out misspelt texts like that ought to really be told that receiving such messages can be worrisome for recipients and detrimental to their business. It is shameful at a time of hoaxes and conspiracies, let alone malicious "smishing" (text-based fraud) to allow such a message to go out to lots of recipients, especially from a G P surgery. I do not know this surgery personally and have nothing to do with it, but if you do then please offer them your constructive thoughts!

Re car v bus v bicycle v walking (or wheeling) = we are all pedestrians/wheelers because even if we have a scooter, e-scooter, Vespa, motorbike, car, lorry, etc. etc., we all use our legs or wheelchair to get around, so we much more attention ought to be paid to the way in which practically every single one of us can choose to get around. Of course, it's generally part of a longer journey (walk/wheel, bus, train, walk again) and not long distance but less space is given in discourse/media to walking/wheeling. With the advent of new Deliveroo-type services for the local supermarket (heaven help us) even fewer walking trips are likely to be made and more motor-powered journeys for deliveries will be made. Reality check - walk more, drive less (and use driven services less).

perhaps those cities at 59 and above are those with fewer winding roads, are smaller, have dissimilar demographics and topography - just because we want London to be like Amsterdam doesn't mean it will be possible. I am all for cycling, reduction in use of motorised vehicles and pedestrian rights (overlooked, in my view) but each city and town should be considered in its own, particular context.

https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-guilty-of-riding-e-scooter-while-over-the-legal-limit-for-alcohol-427964

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