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LTN featuring on R2, Vine show, 1--2pm.

Yes, that too. I offered it in teh spirit of solution finding. It need not detract from your experience, unless you want it to. It is bad that someone has stolen your bikes but to think that my offer of a suggestion on a public forum should somehow reduce your experience is not a logical conclusion.

How about registering cycles, and buying basic insurance included in the fee? ?10 a bike, discount for more than one, for a year, all done via an app or online? (I have no bike or car, so don't feel that invested.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56419277 (not the first time it's appeared on BBC Online) I have to say that I don't see a lot of cycling or walking (hardly any, in fact) down the streets at the end of which there is an LTN, even at peak commuting time. Timed/camera LTNs and a concurrent campaign to help pedestrians and cyclists would work better, I think, or LTNs only in places where there is more need (however that is assessed, ie. proximity to dense social housing, college, hospital, etc.)

The council is good at responding to fly-tipping, in my experience. Just go to the website https://www.southwark.gov.uk/street-care/fly-tipping - no need to leave personal details, just skip that bit if you want.

They would have to pay overtime, I would think, so that makes it more expensive. Anyway, a great opportunity for those to try another option..(though I feel for the emergency services using this route).

Otto2 - "who need to do a double drop" = "who prefer to do a double drop". It really is a matter of choice and convenience vs inconvenience. Nobody NEEDS to do a double drop, it is a need only in his/her own context and set of values, preferences, benefits, disbenefits, etc. Nobody forces people to live miles from schools, buy over-large cars and use them without thought of consequence. It is all a choice. Parents - please consider stopping driving your kids to school: organise car sharing, or at least walk the last mile or so of the journey, etc. It really is down to the individual. Yes, you may need to get up twenty minutes earlier, but that is just a bit tough, really. (If your child has a disability that reduces mobility, then it is fair enough that you should drive them, likewise if you are ferrying neighbours' kids, that is helping reduce congestion and emissions. Otherwise, you are still part of the problem.)

If all the shops had shutters inside (like some do) there would be a much reduced incidence. It seems that all shops now have them; it was rare to see a generation or so ago. Is it compulsory re insurance, or do people just follow on and think "she's got shutters on her shop so I should as well"? Shops are being cleaned - the top of Melbourne Grove had some properties afflicted that are now clean.

Landlords, and not shop managers, are sometimes the problem so it is not simply a case of saying "that shop is X, Y, Z" when it may be out of their hands to paint the property, etc. (One business that models itself as community asset told me that they though the vandalism was worthwhile because it was a valid form of self expression...) I had liked the shop and had bought stuff from it for years. No more...

Children in Japan, amongst other places, which has a climate that is on the whole more severe than ours, both summer and winter can be seen walking, taking the bus or train, to school from very early ages. More of that, please, here.

Yes, ta - it?s just that I start the DD on 01/04 and don?t want to pay by card then get debited. You know how sloppy some big organisations can be, especially ones you can?t actually speak to.

Write to the councillor for your ward. They?re responsive - to some things. https://www.writetothem.com/ You can also ask the shopkeepers to clean up their acts, asking the council to help them free of charge. Just get them to ring the environment line or switchboard. Retail needs all the help it can get so a bit of self-interest may persuade them to act.

Thanks - if you were paying with DD, do you then just cancel the DD and inform Southwark, or just cancel and move on?!

Whatever the yays and nays re LTNs, it is very apparent that a large part of traffic (displaced or not) is generated by parents taking their children to school. It is patently obvious this is the case - just walk around the postcode an hour or so around school start and finish times. Most cars I see have one adult and one child, some two. The people driving ought to have a vested interest in the world's future, but no. Whatever happens re LTNs, etc., only people deciding to stop making journeys (which will cost them in terms of convenience, time in bed, etc.) will help. The rest is just tinkling at the edges. The council ought to be making sure that pavements are in good nick, that footpath riders/cyclists be deterred, that lights are sufficient and kerbs kept free of ponding, etc. This would be relatively easy to achieve and maintain, but it is not as right-on as confecting ersatz community vibes with promise of retro-style village squares, etc. I am for the reduction of traffic and for LTNs in principle (though not for everywhere and, ideally, controlled with cameras and timed) but super serving Dulwich Village and all of Melbourne Grove, for example, isn't on.

Hello - has anyone paid council charge by a credit card? If so, what's the sort code and account number for Southwark payments, and/or a phone line that you can actually get through on. Ta

Planting is good; planting after proper preparation and with ongoing care is better.

My jay (well, not mine and likely a different one from before) visited again for peanuts on the wall top, around 7-30. Are they early feeders?

I think the view will have been taken into account. Also, I think the wind did for the saplings. I don't think anyone apart from mindless vandals would be uprooting them. We need more trees and I support their responsible planting and hope as many people as possible on the EDF do, also.

I ask my neighbours for use of their bin should I have too much and always get a good response. I know it is not ideal but needs must in some cases.

Try the Dulwich Hill councillors as a first step. Cllr Browning is responsive.

It will be years before they reach that height and can be pruned to avoid such problems, I suppose. Also, they may be species that don't reach such height to be an inconvenience. I think a good portion of them are not likely to grow past sapling stage, as that is what happens to a certain proportion of all tube-encased young trees. I still do not know which people are behind the planting of them - council, local green organisation?

I would let the Drs. know about this thread. I understand and accept that some inconveniences such as standing outside and talking about one's health just have to be accepted right now but bad training, or lack of it, is nothing to do with C-19 provisions. Receptionists everywhere have a hard job but the best ones take it seriously and make you feel they are on your side, not an inconvenience who also happens to be ill!

And the police don't do anything, despite teh fact there have been accidents, including a death, involving electric microscooter riders...

Thanks for the input re the tiles and longevity of cells, etc. Loads of us could reduce our power usage but don't...

My point is that discomfort is felt by all, some more than most, but very few people really *cannot* wear a mask, and that includes those with "phobias" etc. Accommodating someone's discomfort is less important than stopping an easily transmissible virus from getting around, and all that entails. It's tough, but not as tough as being on an ICU or in a coffin. (Gail's is not my cup of tea, so I have no idea what they do in there.)