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geobz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > JohnL Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > 1 Hour isn't good - we should be talking > 30-40 > > > minutes.:) > > > > > > Did you know that government guidelines on best > > practice say that children up to the age of 8 > > (with special educational needs) shouldn't have > > school journeys lasting more than 45 minutes. > Over > > 8s it's an hour. These guidelines have been > around > > forever (well decades). > > > > So I think an hour to work is perfectly > acceptable > > for a working adult :) > > > The issue is that your not an hour away from the > City. The transportation links are poor. > > I often walk from ED to Oxford Street, doesn't > take me more than 1h20m to get there. > > So yes I think a bus that does 1hour against > walking 1hour and 20 minutes is an issue. > > And southern isn't running most of the time, and > the timeschedules are way off... you don't get > trains every 10 minutes anymore apart from > 8:10,20,30, everything else is every 20-30 > minutes... thats awful and it feels like you are > living out of town. Also on weekends you get > reduced services and Sundays you'll barely find > the station open. > > Commuting from ED is BAD! Stop trying to convince > yourself that its alright. The thing is, those trains that run every 20 minutes are never full, so why would they put more on?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yeah fair play Sue, I guess we're jumping the gun > a bit ! > (sorry Memsaab !) Yes, this of course!

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ok I'm told :) > > So it seems like my leave house at 8:54 and get > into work at 9:40 is seen as good ? > > Someone invent a transporter - or a hoverboard. Someone please give me a job where i can leave the house at 8.54am! :)

I still think a proper steak restaurant would do very well. An independent like Buen Ayre (best steaks in town for my money and very reasonable) in Broadway Market, Hackney, or even a Hawksmoor. They would have no proper competition. http://buenayre.net/

Plus you lose all of the other benefits of living in London.

Cos Rotterdam is anywhere....

30 to 40 minutes door to door in London is a pipe dream unless you live in zone 1 or live right next to a station, surely? Where do you get the Thameslink to? Blackfriars? Have you considered the 63 bus?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What RRR said. I am actually thinking of ditching > London because I don't want to live anywhere else > in London and living here is increasingly and > inconsistently difficult to get into City which is > what I positioned myself here for originally (when > there were at most 10-15 people on the platform > for my morning train to LB). If you can work from > home indefinitely then no problem obviously. > The Govt have created this situation, they don't > care and everyone is kidding themselves that > things will improve. A weak and pointless contract > was agreed and no-one's accountable, you couldn't > invent it. > > "East Dulwich is not Shangri La" > Shangri La is not in London anyway, but as far as > London goes I'd say ED IS in many ways (for me, at > least) Shangri La. Seriously?! I find that quite amazing. I work in the City and travel in everyday and just don't ever have any problems. When the train strike was on, I got the bus every day. Always got a seat, pretty much always in work within an hour (I work by Liverpool St station). When i get the train from ED to London bridge I also always get a seat, without fail (on the 7.30 or 7.50 trains). Is this so different to a few years ago? And is it any worse than anywhere else in zone 2 or further out?

"....I didn't mean wiretapping when I said wiretapping...."

It's the same tactic Louisa used to use with her phantom ?12 burger.

Pretty sure it's ?4 or ?5 all in. it's not a case of adding extras- there are various different types of finished hot dogs with different toppings, all in the above price bracket.

Can people stop saying ?7.50 for a hot dog when it's not ?7.50 for a hot dog. Foxy just made it up to try and add weight to his featherweight point.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > As for getting the bus to work... it would be > only > > a matter of days before I had a genuine > "Falling > > Down" moment.. > > I'm a grumpy middle-aged man and I can grab the 40 > to London Bridge (and back) if necessary without > going into meltdown. I could start a support group > :-) I also have a low tolerance for commuting and find the 40 bus ride to LB and a ten minute stroll up the road a relaxing way of doing it. Always get a decent seat upstairs near the back, headphones in, gaze out of the window. Easy and frankly quality time.

One of the reasons I moved to ED was because there was no tube. I think however we're very connected- better so than lots of places with the tube. Within easy reach we have: East Dulwich Station (mainline to London Bridge in ten mins) Peckham Rye Station (mainline to London Bridge in nine, Victoria in less than 15, Overground to Shoreditch in 19, Dalston in 25) Denmark Hill Station (as above) Honor Oak Park Station (overground) I have never (not once) failed to get a seat on a mainline train into the city on my commute (getting either the 7.30am or 7.50am trains into London Bridge). Oftentimes getting four seats to myself. Endless reliable bus services into the City (40,42,78), the West End (12, 176), Victoria (185) and others. Lots of buses that get to Elephant & Castle pretty quickly, where you can jump onto the Northern and Bakerloo lines. I think we've excellent connections personally and as a personal preference I hate the tube at busy times so am quite glad to live without it. I work with people that live in Balham and Clapham who despise their morning commute into the City.

Ellem86 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try Stranger Things on Netflix - 9/10 I wholeheartedly second this recommendation. Fantastic telly. Like a mash up of Stand By Me, The Goonies and a Stephen King story. With a great soundtrack.

This book sounds like a good read. Be very interesting to see what parallels there are with London. Plenty I imagine. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-hidden-systems-at-work-behind-gentrification?utm_source=vicefbuk&utm_campaign=global

I don't know if there's generally a problem right now but I've really noticed it recently on my commute. Can really taste it in the air, right across London. I think I might invest in one of the masks for cycling. Does anyone have any experience with them and do they actually work?

I get that things don't stand still but progress isn't always a good thing. Trump as leader of the free world, economies in trillions of debt and Brexit and the March of the far right across large swathes of Europe testify to that. If things carry on unchecked then most won't be able to afford to live in London to enjoy it. It's all wrapped up in the same crazy march of progress in London. Perhaps we'll end up with something like Geneva. Lovely and clean where everything works and the few that can afford to live there can afford to pay ?10 for a latte. But soul stealingly dull. You're welcome to that.

Oh come now you know I was speaking generally about money. And you know if you showed money relative to demographic then there'd be a lot more of it lining white pockets than black in this country. And regarding cleansing- it absolutely is. Sanitising an area to make it more palatable to a certain demographic. Do you disagree that this is happening? And to Nigello- that's so patronising. As equally as it might be banal to some it will be essential and a joy to others. Even those that use them regularly. To be able to find certain goods in London that you'd usually find at home and perhaps can't get in Sainsbury's or Tesco. It's things like that that build communities. And so what if it makes for good Instagram pics for others? I don't use Instagram. Isn't it good that people find joy in other cultures? I don't think it's edgy. If anything the developements at the Bussey Building are more edgy (such a naff word). Yes I think it's vibrant and interesting (more than anything). As I mentioned before I think what I like most about Peckham in it's current format is the fact you have a few different communities living so well alongside each other. It works so well. It's not broken. But someone still wants to fix it, because-money. That's it.

I agree that some thought has gone into it, but perhaps i'm too cynical because it feels to me that the thought has gone into trying to make it look less like segregation, when it (to me anyway) clearly seems to be. There's no doubt in my mind that the racial profile of the area is being altered to make it more attractive to the (primarily) white middle classes. Because that's who will bring more money in. Of course no-one would ever admit to this, but the creeping cleansing of the area is in full and glorious swing. It didn't start like this- it started accidentally with art students from Goldsmiths and Camberwell moving into the area due to cheap rents and cheap studio space and in turn making it interesting. Interesting to the demographic that is now being deliberately targeted because there's money to be made. If i'm wrong and someone convinces me so i'll gladly admit it. And I know I've oversimplified it and perhaps missed key points. I'm happy to be educated, but this is my current understanding.

I agree. It's surely only a matter of time before someone doesn't pay enough attention to the right and a vehicle comes over the bridge straight into them,

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Similar things are happening with the businesses > in the railway arches in Brixton and Herne Hill. > Those businesses are being pushed out due to very > high rent increases. The stuff in Brixton is even worse than Peckham. London is becoming less and less interesting and attractive.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not surprising really since faith schools are not > required to address LGBT+ issues and in my > experience they do not and homophobia is rife to > the extent that teens will freely be abusive about > teachers they perceive as 'gay' - it's like > stepping back 20 years in time to hear them- > because their views have been engendered and > unchallenged since birth. > In this article it appears that Labour, when in > government, amended the equality act to enable > faith schools to avoid the issues.....and by > 'christ' they do with a smile on their faces like > they are proud of allowing 18 year olds out into > the big wide secular world with total ignorance of > sexual equality. > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/andy-burn > ham/11699408/Faith-schools-must-be-forced-to-teach > -about-homosexuality-Andy-Burnham.html > he is right of course What does this attack have to do with faith?

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > titch juicy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > > Not for the residents that rely on the money > being > > made in the hair salons; because business will > > definitely suffer from being tucked away out of > > sight. Footfall is a huge thing; the developers > > know this. If it wasn't they'd turn Bournemouth > > Close into a set of units where they could have > > housed Honest Burger and Peckham Refreshment > Rooms > > etc. > > I agree with much of what you say but this is > where I disagree. Women have a more committed**, > ongoing relationship with their hair than where to > have a bite to eat and will seek out familiar and > good salons. Indeed it could become a specialist > centre that attracts Afro Caribbean women from all > over London. > > **This sentiment may sufffer from being either > weird or pretentious I hope you're right, but if they also rely a lot on footfall, as suggested by at least some in that FT piece, then surely they will suffer. I wonder if it will end with the hair salons or whether the rest of Rye Lane will slowly become more homogenised. it's inevitable surely. It creeps outwards. Also, i'd love to know how the residents form the estate behind those Bournemouth Close garages will put up with late night parties in the salons.

I often use the route through Surrey Canal, down Glengall, over Old Kent Road, then backstreets to the crossing at Tower Bridge Road, up Bermondsey Street, left on to Tooley Street, right over London Bridge. One of the underpasses on Surrey Canal is closed at the moment, so I sometimes turn right off the canal, cross Peckham Hill Street, up Colegrove Road and onto Glengall Road. But, the road surface along most of Glengall Road is terrible.