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JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They've been digging the tunnel from Stranraer to > Northern Ireland. > > Be nice to them as they've been underground for > months I suspect it's more likely they've been digging the poisson d'avril tunnel

Richard Lemming tweeted that in the "gated" (my word not his) area of Dulwich from next Tuesday residents who live in the area who are blue badge holders can apply for exceptions to the camera enforcement https://twitter.com/RM_Leeming/status/1377671423926370307?s=19 The posts that responded to it make interesting reading 😱

You may think this is a joke But if the glorious leader sees it,it will become council policy

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Selling Xmas trees in laybys November and December Is that after a busy strawberry selling season ?

Could this be a taste of the results ? https://twitter.com/RM_Leeming/status/1376891237324754951?s=19 Whilst inside the LTN, you can claim walking and cycling has gone up (against which baseline is a question to ask) it doesn't talk about the surrounding streets where traffic has gone up.

Whilst we all know that during March and April , as councils find creative ways to spend their remaining road repair funds, roadworks appear on virtually every street corner. What I can't work out is where they get all the road workers to do the various schemes during this intense blitz on our streets ? Do the majority of them go into hibernation for the months between ? Are they seasonal workers or are they busy doing "I'm just in your area doing road works and I've got some tarmac going spare if you want your drive done cheap" cold calls? This is NOT a serious thread so be creative and invent what you think they do for the rest of the year ?

Ex I didn't say it was happening, what I am simply stating is that any count / monitoring has to be validated, open and not subject to abuse. The council themselves state in their brochure on the ed ltn assessment that they will be counting cyclists and with enough warning the number of people cycling on count days could skew the results. We've seen the defensive position of the pro lobby over this , including , but not limited to , calling for boycotting of shops that disagree with them so it appears nothing is off the table. But your history on here suggests that you have an agenda and when it's questioned you accuse that poster of wearing a tin foil helmet in case cyclists are aliens (and yes that is tongue in cheek before you say I never said that) 😱 The simple other truth is we all saw how the council managed the data to implement the CPZ around the station so all that I'm asking for here is fair, validated and unmanipulated data. Otherwise if it's anything other there will be a public outcry

True , as I said it is one of the posts that are being discussed and as such can't confirm or dismiss how true it is, but equally I can't off hand (like some) say it's an urban myth It does however, raise the question of how to validate the cyclist count when the council monitors the ltn roads. If they use just strips then they can be tricked by riding back and forth If visual counting, then this should be done on random days and times to ensure that false positives can't be drawn if the pro lobby know in advance and flood the area with out of area mates. It has to be done in such a way that the true usage figure is captured and not false peaks or troughs that could skew the data.

exdulwicher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > There were reports on Twitter of groups of > cyclists repeatedly cycling over the monitor > strips (they were doubling back on themselves > several times) > > This urban myth is popular amongst cab drivers > too, not a surprise that the various One... groups > have picked up on it. This is one of the tweets that I think is being discussed about cyclists trying to "adjust" the count. I can't vouch if it's true or not, but equally I can't dismissing as myth

I read it that jazzer said 2022 not this year.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who objected? Trams would be great. See Dan b's post above to understand the short sighted objections. I believe Eileen and the RLSAG (now peckham vision) were the chief local objectors to what would have been a great scheme for the area.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who objected? Trams would be great. See Dan b's post above to understand the short sighted objections. I believe Eileen and the RLSAG (now peckham vision) were the chief local objectors to what would have been a great scheme for the area.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who objected? Trams would be great. I agree , and I did at the time but ho hum others didn't Maybe try contacting the cross river partnership ( https://crossriverpartnership.org/ ) to find out more about what happened and why it was shelved.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who objected? Trams would be great. I agree , and I did at the time but ho hum others didn't Maybe try contacting the cross river partnership ( https://crossriverpartnership.org/ ) to find out more about what happened and why it was shelved.

It's a real shame that the cross river partnership failed in their bid to bring trams back to Peckham town centre and up to north of the river via Holborn ten plus years ago. My impression at the time was that local vocals both at this end of the route (mainly objecting to the depot being in the town centre) and at various points along the route caused it to lose support. Cross river were considering extending it to meet up with the Croydon tram if it was implemented How short sighted were people in objecting to it as it would have been a clean green transport method helping to reduce our reliance on cars.

It's a real shame that the cross river partnership failed in their bid to bring trams back to Peckham town centre and up to north of the river via Holborn ten plus years ago. My impression at the time was that local vocals both at this end of the route (mainly objecting to the depot being in the town centre) and at various points along the route caused it to lose support. Cross river were considering extending it to meet up with the Croydon tram if it was implemented How short sighted were people in objecting to it as it would have been a clean green transport method helping to reduce our reliance on cars.

Do they give a breakdown of what is being done for the cost and why it is required ? That's your starting point to open discussions as you need to understand what and why before you can challenge the cost

It gets better The EU are going to discuss stopping the plants producing the AstraZeneca vaccine from exporting it to countries like the UK. It really smacks of panic over there at the moment and could result in a situation of It's your ball as you paid for it, it's got a puncture..... oh sorry we didn't pump it up so it's okay to use now, but we don't agree with you using it so we're taking it away from you .... You couldn't make it up if you tried 😱 So glad our vaccination program is at 50% not 10%

J.a. your post has left me craving a greasy spoon full English now.....

Sorry, another petition against LTNs but this one goes London wide so may get a lot more signatures to help Unblock Side Streets in London http://chng.it/twbpGmDNtz

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Over here, taking our women, then our funerals, > and now our NHS. > Thank the stars and stripes they didn't change our viewing culture, diets or start an illegal war for the oil ....

It's similar to BUPA hospitals I suspect, where NHS consultants also do private work in tandem to their full time jobs. It could well be related to the new US embassy in Vauxhall and the increase in American workers over here at the moment (wild guess) If it's just one hospital then it's not a big concern, but if the first of many then it possibly warrants a bit of concern.

Plus, I suspect that the cycling lobby will of course ensure that for the days the count is being done, non local cyclists would flood the roads then vanish again post the review. Easy to skew numbers if you want to.

My advice, set up a proper website shop using one of the services like one 2 one my website or wix or similar where you can use templates then drag / drop items into the design. It will give you more control and you aren't excluding people who don't want to use face book (plus you don't have issues around facebook potentially having access to your clients data) Then you can link all your social media tools to it so a click on instagram will take clients to the buy me now page on your website Another advantage is you get a dedicated branded email address to that matches your website so if you use mail chimp or similar for marketing it all looks cohesive and a single brand.

This is a few months old but may help explain the issues faced by the sorting offices