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I think I'm living rent free in a certain posters head... but anyway, my flat isn't near Melbourne Grove where the EDG central counter is and something cannot fall by 19% when there is no previous data. Thanks for the info Bicknell - Lib Dem or Green for me then in Goose Green....I think Lib Dem based on this statement "We are concerned that the measures are not providing an overall benefit to the area and are instead leading to longer car journeys as people navigate the road restrictions, and pollution being moved from one part of the area to another, as seen through the unacceptable levels of congestion on Croxted Road and East Dulwich Grove, for example. As your councillors, we would fight to remove the current LTN measures in Dulwich and replace them with alternative, fairer and evidence-led ways of tackling congestion and pollution which would be co-created with residents and local businesses. We would want to see an independent third party conduct a fair and comprehensive consultation as to what those measures should be, which puts residents at the heart of decision making on this issue.?'

Do we know where the goose is being cared for? Is it a charity? Do they need donations?

I regularly have to e-mail Cllr McAsh about food rubbish uncollected from the Dutch estate.. after the foxes have hauled it across the road, it is finally dealt with days later. James always gets onto it quickly though.

Road traffic in London dropped by 18% from pre-Covid levels...so 92% also signifies a rise......it should be nearer 85% if the general traffic drop is considered. LTNs only reduce traffic on closed roads, evaporation is a fundamentalist myth. No study shows a drop in pollution and traffic out-side of the general drop in traffic due to Covid-19. There is absolutely no evidence of any drop in NOx and PM2 due to any LTN intervention. Walking is still the most 'active' type of travel, cycling has declined since the height of the quiet Covid Summer and buses have been cut, with longer journeys at peak times on residential main roads. Fail.

The goslings were juvenile stage and they were such good parents that even one will probably get them through to adulthood. Sadly Egyptian geese mate for life and can live for 25 years...so I hope that the parent survives.

?Traffic has been rising across Southwark since the end of the 2021 COVID-19 lockdown, and was at 92% of pre-COVID levels in November 2021 at count points in the north of the borough, and above pre-COVID levels on the TfL network near Dulwich.? Direct from Southwark Council heatmap info. Doesn?t appear to support the myth that LTNs have reduced traffic across the Dulwich area... if it says above .... that?s ABOVE...

I?m not opposed to LTNs ?on principle? but I have not seen any published evidence that they reduce car use or pollution in this area and the fuzzy data, although flawed and with dubious use of statistical methodology- shows that traffic on my road, outside my flat has risen by over 20% ... as observed. The only fundamentalists here are the individuals that cling onto the failed LTNs in this area, in the hope those impacted by more pollution just go away and shut-up, so people on quiet closed roads, can enjoy the rise in house prices and freedom from the rif-raf. Next move will be gated communities USA style.

I watched children playing cricket on the sports area 2 metres away from very busy traffic on EDGrove midday this week. All that green-washing about school routes and excuses to keep roads closed is a joke.

I think in the garden part dogs are supposed to be on a lead? But I only see dogs off leads in that part. I love dogs and good owners know how to control their dogs...but they can get excited around other animals. I?ve watched the geese for a couple of years now, great parents and the goslings are very sweet. Owners really do need to engage their brain. After this event I think the park will have to insist that dogs are on leads in the garden section?

Oh no...they had 4 goslings and then 3... they are such wonderful parents. I know it's lovely to see your dog bounce around the park..but please on a lead near the lake. I'm really upset about this.

Direct from the latest StreetSpace Southwark Council.

?No data collected for East Dulwich Grove Central prior to September 2021? is quoted directly from the Southwark Council site. The webpage with this information on is in my post - so the source is given. Constantly attacking me is tiresome.

Oh look.....20% more traffic on East Dulwich Grove.... well obviously I wasn?t making it up! https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/traffic-data-analysis Oh and also I was correct in this too ?No data collected for East Dulwich Grove Central prior to September 2021?

Party been going on for 3 days in ED Grove quite near us....I suspect today is day 4....not sure the council can do anything about a gathering with music that starts after 9 and stops before 11:00 in a private garden..... unfortunately...

The Home Office has now admitted that the proposed legislation, which is due to go back to the House of Commons this week, in fact contains no provision to provide safe government-backed routes for asylum seekers. A letter dated 5 April from Home Office minister Tom Pursglove to the humanitarian charity MSF UK directly contradicts Patel by stating that safe and legal routes ?do not form part of the bill?. So Patel lied to Parliament...

Ahh but it is more important that the Village is made more ?villagey? I?m enjoying the school holidays ...ED Grove feels as it did before the LTNs for a few weeks...

Thanks legal - interesting articles. I think it's important to educate oneself and then take a view. Mine agrees with 'rapid change in wealth distribution and power structures, preventing a rich elite from perpetuating a self-serving ideology', but that doesn't mean I'm right. Maybe that's why XR camping on the Rye for two weeks doesn't bother me. My council tax goes on all sorts of things I don't agree with (LTNs) and others I have no use of... quite happy for it to be used to pay for port-a-loos for two weeks.

Great article on medium joon, thank you for posting.

I would prefer an independent- but I think it will serve the train commuter crowd. Watch out for those 'healthy sandwiches' they are full of fat! yummy but high calorie.

It is teeny... and it will be gone in a couple of weeks....whereas very rich people making lots and lots of money by polluting lakes, rivers, sea and sky will continue year on year until the earth is rather exhausted. I quite liked their 'green-washing' demo at Lloyds - maybe we can do the same for green washing at a local political level...

This would be so much better than LTNs for these estates. One way systems are just as likely to discourage car use ?if? you believe the ?inconvenience will make traffic evaporate? argument. One way will then allow local bus routes and a ?hard? cycle lanes. Court is a perfect LL Village route and Calton a great route for a bus that can then stop at Village Schools, Alleyn?s, Charter and then go down Elsie dropping school kids off before entering Grove Vale...then up to the station around Sainsbury?s and back around again.

Rather than LTNs maybe one-way roads and the local green bus..with seed funding from the 6 million. Townley to Village via Calton could be one way with a local green bus, bypassing other routes. Making journeys shorter by public transport seems a good way to encourage use.

Suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett, believed that non-violent campaigning would lead to constitutional change. Mainly upper-middle class 'respectable' women campaigning through petitions and the lobbying of MPs. Six years later - no vote so...came the suffragettes..a number of women across the country became frustrated with Fawcett's moderate campaigning style. Emmeline Pankhurst, who had been a member of the Manchester suffragist group, believed it was time for direct action by working-class women who would use any means necessary to secure the vote. "Deeds not words" - the motto of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) she created in 1903 - summed up their tactic of demanding, not asking, for their rights. None of us want our lives disturbed...I have tea booked at the Royal Lancaster tomorrow, so a demo in Hyde Park will be very annoying if it prevents me from getting there...on the other hand .....Climate Change, famine and mass movement of displaced people.

Well that?s not quite right, if you read the thread some people support and some do not...not sure it?s hostile. I think that it will be an interesting few weeks and it will be a good opportunity for locals to chat with people with the same world view or a different world view, the Rye will survive two weeks and all of us actually. They seem a very committed group of people who obviously care about all our futures....so maybe we can collectively give them a break whatever our thoughts.

Instead of LTNs which divide communities and benefit some at the expense of others... this, partly funded by the Council, could have brought communities together and would have been an alternative mode of local travel rather than private cars. https://thebiglemon.com