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I think there will be no market on Melbourne ever - the residents do not want anyone on 'their' road.... and the Council will comply with that request. Street parties are ok.... as long as it isn't infiltrated by 'outsiders'.

Turn it into a skate park and music venue.

A reminder of the Blair legacy to the NHS...and no, I don’t trust Keir or Wes! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/nhs-hospital-trusts-to-pay-out-further-55bn-under-pfi-scheme?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I have worked in the private sector and the NHS, trust me, in the private sector profit comes first and quality second. Defunding the NHS is a political tool to increase waiting lists and force people to seek private alternatives... this will continue until there is no NHS left. If you can’t see it then your eyes are closed. Yes the original contract excluded medical doctors... do you know why? They wouldn’t support the NHS because they didn’t want to lose all that lovely money they made. Every other health professional fully supported the NHS. PPI killed the NHS - making a fortune out of ‘new builds; charging £200 to change light bulbs in the PPI building for example - all work was charged at an excessive rate to make profit for private companies... Golden Jubilee Wing at Kings being a prime example. Rant over..😏

Sadly Wes Streeting and Starmer seem ok with private healthcare in the NHS... it’s all very depressing.

Here is Southwark, dismissing any causality that LTNs have increased congestion and journey times in their report in Sept 2021 ' in the absence of any other changes' - when bus journeys had been prolonged due to LTN implementation according to TFL and the Council themselves recorded increased times on Croxted, EDG, LL and Grove Vale. 'As can be seen, speeds significantly increased in the first lockdown, and less so in the second, before slowly returning towards, but remaining slightly above, pre-COVID levels. It could therefore be expected that in the absence of any other changes, bus speeds in Dulwich would have followed similar patterns.' Quite clearly the comment 'it could therefore be expected'.. basically saying the journey times would have been longer even if LTNs were not implemented is spin... and TFL have exposed this with their report. LTNs cause increased congestion on our roads. Fact!

Just a friendly reminder that TFL has said that LTNs in Dulwich have increased congestion and made bus journeys longer on residential boundary rds.

It was never about reducing pollution, it was always about closing roads for certain people who have been lobbying the Council for years to close their road. One only has to go back to some pre-Covid forum pages to see posts from those living in closed now. They closed roads due to Covid and then kept them closed while scrabbling around for ‘evidence’ ...it’s placating certain residents who are wish-washy voters for Labour, they know the poorer and high ethnic population roads (main roads with cheaper housing) are very likely to always vote labour. It’s quite disgusting , greenwashing and only caring about gaining votes. That actual Councillors live in LTNs is an additional repulsive aspect of this ‘policy’. Meanwhile building on green spaces in the poorest areas with high traffic, allowing trees just planted to die through lack of care, selling off our park space for profit and providing less than a tenth of the original number of social housing on the Heygate redevelopment. It’s not a Council for the most in need, it’s a career building project for some very vainglorious individuals. There are a few Councillors I respect..including some of the newer ones, but I wonder how long it will take for their ethics and morals to be eroded. LTNs - a vanity project for the privileged few.

It’s all in TFLs imagination...bunch of anti-green, motor-head, climate denying yobs!

Isn’t the LCC designing it? 😳 The appropriate thought and investment into a proper redesign that favours pedestrians, who are the most vulnerable, is not going to happen...it will be ‘designed’ by those who have the ear of the council, and live in a gated rd on the cheap. In any case, hopefully not using the person who designed the terrible EDG, Townley Rd, Greendale junction.

Thanks Sue...we might pop along..

There is an excellent debate about legal routes into the UK on GMB...Well done James. I hope you are all ok. The Daily Mail is poisonous.

Jimmy Hill.. I?m old enough to remember in the 70{S 80{S) maybe? it meant lying or at least over-egging a truth...something to do with his chin. One could also just rub one?s chin... don?t ask me why but this is a terrible explanation by the Urban Dic https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jimmy%20hill

Maybe they will exchange a sandwich for a goat, a suck of ham and an offer to wattle and daub their outhouse?

RIP bunting thread...

When is the peak pollution data for ED Grove going to be published...interested in what I?m breathing in every morning.

It was crap on ED Grove...smelly pollution all the way down...and Labour/Councillors have magically disappeared....

So much money spent over 4 days while children live in poverty... I can?t think of any reason to visit a shop just because it has a bit of plastic bunting.

Aaah the spirit of kindness and decently constructive criticism ?don't rate their community spirit or their commitment to helping all retailers out after a torrid time? Putting a few plastic flags up? There are many other quieter ways of showing support for fellow retailers and giving back to the community and this judgemental and unpleasant comment is really not in the spirit of any words that have been expressed by the Queen.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why are so many of you being aggressive? > If you don't agree with the celebrations, good on > you. If you love the spirit of the nation, good > on you. Um...OP was the start of this thread...not being ?aggressive? just responding to their moan..

My community spirit centres around volunteering at a food bank and giving a percentage of my salary to a homeless charity, sorry for believing being a patriot is what you do for others rather then celebrating huge amounts of money wasted on flag-hugging.

So glad it?s back....enjoy all the public art in E Dulwich/Dulwich.

I suppose if we lived in Russia or North Korea, then we could all be forced to wave flags and bow to the state...maybe all the shop owners should be publicly shamed and possibly some enforced punishment. I quite like the queen...but have avoided celebrating a family that owns far too much land so they can shoot things and have a history of imprisoning their own family members with mental health issues, avoiding tax and laws enforcing employment equality.

I haven't seen anything on Twitter or any other medium from any of my local Councillors about bus service reduction, I have seen lot's of communications about how Wonderful the Council is and pictures of councillors pointing at social housing they are building (which turns out to not be social housing) and how they were victorious against their own residents on Croxted and ED Grove. Here is Medact's take on buses Increasing publicly owned zero-carbon public transport is key to a Green New Deal that reduces air pollution, improves public health and reduces inequality. Bringing buses back into public ownership in cities like Reading has enabled money to be recycled into the community, improving services and the local environment. You can read the whole excellent document of REAL Green policy rather than Southwark's Greewashing policy of demolition, building on green spaces and the other 'thing' here: https://stat.medact.org/uploads/2021/04/The-public-health-case-for-a-Green-New-Deal-MEDACT-April-2021.pdf

This isn?t the dashboard it?s just an ATC report from one point on EDG for Jan. I?m not sure now they have ?victory? over people living on polluted boundary roads, that Southwark will bother to report on pollution and congested traffic. I write this while looking at queuing, polluting traffic outside of my home.