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steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This costs more than a bike but it's clever > > http://skylock.cc/ Wow, that's the sort of kit that makes me wish I had something worth using it on!

The Grove has a bus stop right outside with services to/from Forest Hill, Catford/Lewisham, Sydenham, Penge, Croydon, Peckham, East Dulwich, and points north. The 176 is a 24 hour service. It also has a very large car park. To claim that The Grove is somehow "stranded" at the corner of the A205 and A2216 seems a bit disingenuous.

fazer71 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You do all know this junction would work perfectly > as a mini roundabout with zebra crossings on each > road ... > But that's toooooo simple for tfl Southwark and > the suppliers of traffic systems. > > Hehehe. A problem with this is that, at certain times of the day, there can be an almost constant stream of pedestrians crossing which causes tailbacks on the roads leading to the roundabout and can cause gridlock on the roundabout itself.

(NSFW) http://viz.co.uk/letterbocks-dr-dolittle/

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're right, that wasn't in the OP. I guess the > original story got exaggerated somewhere during > the course of the thread... Does anyone actually read other people's posts? The "dog taking child's toy" was a post by j9duff yesterday at 8.24pm about separate incidents in the Park - not a case of the tale growing in the telling.

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can someone explain why the newly erected traffic > signs turning from Forest Hill road into anonbie > road say the speed limit is 30mph when the area is > supossed to be 20mph? I guess because Canonbie Road is Lewisham, not Southwark.

> LadyNorwood Wrote: > No it's not a joke - the signs should be on the > South Circular not on Croxted Road..... Well, that would require exactly the same amount of signage (except for "30" and it would be on the SCR... and it would mean that, technically, the area of road that is both the South Circular AND Croxted Road would have two speed limits - what's the limit for a vehicle turning off the South Circular onto Croxted whilst it's still on the junction?

LadyNorwood Wrote: > > I appreciate that, but TfL/Southwark have gone to > the trouble of marking the road and putting up > speed signs for the width of the South Circular - > by the time you've accelerated from 20 to 30 > you're back in the 20 zone (if you even have the > time to do that) - an utterly pointless jobsworth > piece of crap.... Is this a joke? The 30mph signs are there so that drivers know that, turning onto the South Circular, the new speed limit is 30mph - not to provide a two second opportunity to floor the accelerator...

I noticed this morning that the top of Eynella Road (from the junction with Woodwarde Road to Lordship Lane (40 yards?)) is a 30mph zone.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So that BBC article says accidents down by 1% on > 30mph roads but up by 24% on 20mph roads. Without bothering to read any articles, my first thought on reading that statistic was: "But if the amount (i.e. total length) of 20mph roads has increased dramatically and the amount of 30mph roads has decreased, then one might expect accidents to have increased on the 20mph roads." The statistics need to take into account the total length of each type of road at the time the calculation is made.

The numberless circle in Devonshire Road is, technically, Lewisham's - though I suspect that they haven't put a number in there because they (Lewisham) are as confused as everybody else!

To the left of the double yellows is a white bar to prevent parking across a driveway. To the right is nothing. The line painters have presumably been told to mark lines from the junction with Red Post Hill to a point x metres along East Dulwich Grove. They've done this, carefully ending with a bar as they've come to each driveway and restarting on the other side. However, "x metres" is a point about 40 centimetres the other side of a driveway and they've dutifully marked the lines rather than take the pragmatic view that they're a bit bloody pointless! (I would guess that the line markers are not authorized to use common sense.)

I used to commute from Forest Hill, which involved using the South Circular as far as Lancaster Avenue. Coming from the East Dulwich direction there are plenty of back routes to get you to Rosendale Road - then a right turn onto the SC for about 100 yards before turning left onto Lancaster Avenue. After that I went via Lancaster Avenue, York Hill, Knollys Road, Leigham Court Road, Culverhouse Gardens, Gracefield Gardens, Newcome Gardens, Pendennis Road, Becmead Avenue, Garrad's Road, Tooting Bec Road, Upper Tooting Road (this is part of "Cycle Superhighway 7"(!)), Garratt Lane, Wimbledon Road, Plough Lane and Gap Road. Which is as far as I needed to go. At the top of Gap Road, Alexandra Road takes you into the heart of Wimbledon. It took me about 45 minutes. I used to go to Wimbledon at about 1.00 am, but the return journey would be during the morning rush and the only real struggle was the traffic around the schools and college from Lancaster Avenue to College Road - the cycle lane is used to allow two lanes of cars! But this obviously wont affect you.

Are these, in East Dulwich Grove, the shortest double yellows in the borough? (Sorry the picture's a bit dark - it was taken at 2.30am)

Does anybody know anything about the old man I've seen jogging through Dulwich Village and along Dulwich Common in the wee small hours many mornings. It seems such a strange time (3 or 4 o'clock in the morning) to be out running and (not wishing to be ageist) he seems so old to be running at all.

I'm intrigued - did the culprit come forward because of your original post or did they just spontaneously come over all honest?

As one of the milkmen who serve SE22 I have noticed the poor quality of some of the roads round the back of Lordship Lane. I think it's Fellbrigg Road where the appalling "up and down"-ed-ness of the paving slabs has been "solved" in the last week or so by the application of a few dabs of "black stuff". I sincerely hope that this is a VERY temporary fix, because if your council thinks it can leave this splash-and-dash for more than a few months then it will leave it for years...

Here's an idiot cyclist caught on my dash cam on London Road (SE23) (I've zoomed in at the end, so watch all the way through...)