tumbleweed

This is by far my favourite app: it knows the platforms before they're announced and it lets you see the live status of the trains (uses the same data as Real Time Trains, I believe). It also lets you make searches that include multiple destinations, so you can search from "from Peckham to Victoria OR London Bridge". http://livetrainsapp.co.uk/

As one of those in the affected area I have to say I'm delighted we're getting a CPZ. It's got to the point where I can't do a school run on a rainy day because when I get back ten minutes later there will be no parking spaces at all. You can see vulture commuters coming from out of area to use Denmark Hill station driving around and around our streets waiting for a space to open up. One parked in a neighbour's *driveway* the other day when pressure was at maximum. edanna: it's worth noting that in a lot of the areas there are houses with driveways who themselves have no parking problems. I can readily imagine they'll vote against a CPZ ? but that doesn't mean there isn't a genuine problem.

There is a massive difference between parking somewhere else for a time and dumping your car somewhere for the entire working day. A street that might seem empty when you get there at 9am (when most of the residents have left) is quite different when it has filled up with commuters and then legitimate day-time traffic (tradespeople, residents returning etc) are quite unable to find spaces. Had this happen to me this morning in fact. Am ill, so did the school run in the car instead of walking as we usually do. Returned home and not a space to be found, while cars circled like vultures looking for a gap. I asked a couple if they were residents and both said "no" before heading off to the station. Ah well, standard tragedy of the commons. If it continues like this the street will soon be resident permits only, and we'll all have lost out.