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Bless him, he's obviously swallowed the blue pill and woken up after a lovely dream that people willingly give up their cars because he believes it I believe in LTNs I do I do I do 😅

That's a bit ruff

I guess when you are at the top, you rely on people below you feeding information and stats up. If those stats are flawed, incorrectly recorded or reported on then the resultant message they give is also incorrect. Therefore it wouldn't surprise me, if due to actually public feedback, that statements that are believed true one day are reversed the next.

Anyone know what's happened / happening to to the Oriental Star next to Eric's bakery ?

A truly independent, non biased review is what a lot of people on here have been calling for. If the review finds LTNs are efficient and don't displace traffic or cause additional pollution through driving around them then more LTNs will be given the green light. If the opposite is found then each of the existing ones may need to be reviewed individually. Calling someone a "slimey greaseball" for sensibly asking a question of "does this work or not just shows your bias Mal. Maybe you're scared the truth will be finally exposed and the flat LTN world theory isn't true 😅

And everyone is Beautiful ?

https://www.politico.eu/article/paris-bans-e-scooters-in-landmark-referendums/ Hardly made up, this says that when the contracts come to an end in September and rental eScooters will be removed from the streets of Paris. As usual Mr Chicken you try and put down other posters who disagree with you. Personally I can't wait till london bans them as they are just a bl00dy nucience riden by people going back to being 4 again.😅

It was Paris banning eScooters back in April. Fact not made up 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/parisians-vote-on-banning-e-scooters-from-french-capital#:~:text=Paris has almost 15%2C000 e,thrown into the River Seine.

I would suggest reading back through this thread and others on the subject. The report has been discussed and the feeling is that it doesn't match with experience locally. Don't worry, they don't, James McAsh did start a thread on here but ran away quickly when he realised it was safer in the southwark ivory tower 😉

Maybe southwark Labour should take note here and start listening to residents concerns. 🤔 BBC News - Uxbridge: Keir Starmer says Labour must learn lessons of by-election defeat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66277211

If a CPZ is introduced, double yellow lines across and extending past each dropped curb will appear making it illegal to park across their own drive. Where two houses next to each other have a dropped curb, the two parking spaces between will become only one due to these extended lines. Don't expect to retain as many parking spaces in your road as there are now.

Sadly it has been reported that the Mayor is in favour of this, not because it reduces car use or emissions, but due to anticipated falling revenues from the Ultra Low Emission Zone once cars are ULEZ compliant. Points a very sh!tty stick at the real reasons these schemes are introduced, revenue generation.

Again, another supporter of punish the drivers to get them out of their cars without supplying credible alternatives. If you want people to give up their cars then there must be a better frequent and safe (in the situation of covid) alternative public transport system to incentivise them to do so. Saying get out and walk and cycle is not the answer.

Oh dear Repeating Mr Khans lie, sorry misspoken statement. You really must keep up with the truth. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66060758.amp

Can you demonstrate that they are anecdotal and not verbatim Mal. If they are as reported then it does leave the credibility of two people rather in tatters

Madness If you go see a consultant at King's they may say, get a blood test on your way out and now you would need to book one and possibly return another day. How is that helping the patient ?

Tis the end of humanity mark my words young un

Mal, let's look at what happened to the no 12, its gone from every 5 or 6 minutes to every 12 minutes (if you're lucky) Whilst I use it frequently, it's no longer a convenient bus to go to central London and there was talk of cutting it entirely. It's a busy bus and it needs to be returned to its previous frequency to encourage people out of their cars. Less is not more when it comes to public transport. Years ago we had an excellent network of clean public transport including electric trams, more frequent buses and more trains but progression and the beeching report pushed people into car ownership which is where the current issue is. Slowly over the past 50 years governments have eroded public transport to a point where the car became king and unless that erosion is reversed people will be reluctant to give up cars for packed limited public transport services. Let's be honest, if everyone here lost the use of their car tomorrow, buses and trains in their current service pattern and capacity would fail and people would avoid them due to lack of capacity More public transport is required, nor less and reducing capacity to free up central london was a massive blunder by TfL.

A double decker can carry around 87 passengers which represents (based on most peoples perception of single car occupancy ) 87 cars not driving. Why oh why are TfL and the council not pushing for more buses and bus routes rather than driving towards penalising car owners who then can't make longer or essential ,(heavy shopping / goods or carrying those less able to walk) journeys? It isn't about being green but bringing in revenue for councils as they can charge for bays and for car clubs / lime to be in the Borough whilst making even more through fines.!

This happens down other roads like Barry Road too. A handful of drivers are frustrated by being limited to 20mph and as a result you see the sort of incidents you describe above. It's similar to the mentality that if you are doing 70 in the fast lane on a motorway overtaking another car, there will always be one (or more) drivers pushing their luck and flash you ro move over whilst they thunder past above the speed limit. Thankfully it's not all drivers and the majority are sensible.

Amazing, so something that will effect so many has a limited by tickets consultation meeting. Obviously the council don't want everyone ascending on mass, to control numbers for safety and possibly to also control the narrative 🙄

Whilst I am an advocate of reducing advertising for junk food and a more healthy diet for all, I think that in this case TfL are a little over zealous : BBC News - West End play poster banned by TfL over 'unhealthy' cake https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66119218

Hi DulVilleRes Guess the only course of action is for you to approach one dulwich and ask the questions directly. It may well be that whilst people post their updates that they have seen, they are not part of the group.so can't answer the question. If you do find the answers you seek please post them on the forum so that everyone can see.

With the newly introduced limit on the number of tweets you can see, could this be the death throes of twitter ? Maybe not a bad thing as a lot of social media has become toxic over the years, maybe we all need to step back and re-engage in the real, not virtual, world 😉 to see people for who they are and not to be manipulated by algorithms that reinforce our beliefs, right or wring. Lol one can only dream !