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So today...I?m gaslighted by Christmas trees... see how it goes..Oh the traffic is heavier.its because of Christmas trees... New Year...oh it?s the fireworks...look it?s busy on EDG... Easter Bunny...oh now it?s Summer Solstice..look at all those pagans running amok around LL...always a reason..never the LTNs. Can you honestly not see how completely ridiculous this is..it would be laughable if it wasn?t endangering lives. I?m not being overly dramatic, coroners case right now due to the death of an asthmatic child.

I like the walk to Flock and Herd, I always feel I have earned my bacon sandwich by the hour and a half round stroll. 😋

I do love the way people tell me I am incorrect in saying the traffic on EDG is worse than before the LTNs went in, despite the fact I have lived in the same house and same road for 30 years. I?m told it is ?roadworks, when it?s lockdown I?m told it?s ?lockdown? when it?s Friday I?m told it?s because it?s a ?Friday?, when it?s Saturday, I?m told it?s because it?s a ?Saturday?, when it?s the school run I?m told it?s the ?school run?, or I?m told it will ?bed in? or that there are just ?too many cars on the road? so I will just have to put up with car users from Calton Ave, Melbourne etc driving on my road... but that?s ok because who cares about EDG residents, or the schools, or the nurseries. I?m sure residents on LL feel like they are also being constantly gaslighted. One friend on Twitter with children was told by one person, she should move from EDG and if she didn?t she was a selfish mother. LTNs work in a overall plan of traffic reduction, with public transport and cycling/walking infrastructure... LTNs in isolation create more traffic on roads outside the LTNs if this infrastructure is not in place - a bonus for a few residents with increased pollution and health inequality for others.

I love this picture...you should defo do the cheese shops and the fishmongers. 😋

Hopefully, the current court case about pollution on a residential main road, being part of the cause of a child?s death, will concentrate the mind of Southwark Council. They should be measuring the pollution on residential ?main? roads, where traffic from historically lower traffic roads has been diverted and now idles twice a day during the times children and parents walk their children to school.

East Dulwich Grove - 3 schools. Calton Ave - zero schools. LTN in Calton, traffic diverted to EDG.

mmmmhh putting your rubbish..even leaves into a brown bin that one hasn?t paid for is pretty much an invite for neighbours falling out I have found. Also my neighbours on my strip do not have brown bins as they don?t have gardens or have very small ones. As I say, if Southwark provides me with 4 bags over autumn I will happily sweep my patch.

I used to sweep the leaves and put in my brown bin, but as I haven?t got one or any free bags I can?t sweep up leaves from the street trees. I love those trees, so maybe if the council provide us with the big bags we can at least sweep our front gardens/drives and a little bit of the pavement.

Long tailed tits.... a whole little gang of them 😁

The thing is James, I live on EDG and I witness the terrible idling traffic every morning at school rush hour. I witness cycles using the pavement and young children walking past idling cars at the level of car exhausts breathing in high levels of particulates, NO2 and other poisons. I also know how these reduce lung growth in children and exacerbate asthma. We can all moan about who is rude, who is inappropriate etc. The fact is that as my councillor you are not standing up for my health or of anyone who lives on EDG, as it does not fit the narrative of a ?lobby? funded by Southwark council. By all means reduce traffic and pollution across the borough, but shame on all Labour councillors for ignoring the neighbourhoods with the highest percentage of inequality in the borough.

It is possible to be pro-cycling, a cyclists, a green campaigner and be against the pollution and increased traffic caused by poorly planned LTNs....there are complexities that have not been addressed by Southwark?s intransigence, either due to abject wilfulness or just plain stupidity.

I think Firstmate reflects my thoughts. I?m not ?against? LTNs I?m against increases in traffic and pollution on other residential, school roads caused by poor planning of LTNs. When I look on Twitter I see photos from the ?lobby? of almost exclusively middle class white children in areas of a million+ housing, playing and cycling in car free roads. If the ?lobby? was honest and also reflected and posted photos of LL and EDG during times of idling traffic pumping out fumes, during the school run it would be a realistic view of the current state of play. To witness small children walking and in pushchairs breathing in car fumes on EDG during these times of increased pedestrian travel is heartbreaking and probably illegal in terms of pollution levels. It?s a question of inequality that has been caused by a Labour council, I?m ashamed I voted for them.

Spotted...inspector on EDG.

They haven?t considered disability or poverty in their assessment, just middle class cycling lobby groups, from wealthier areas and I speak as a middle-class cycle owner (need to cycle more, but EDG just scares me!), who has driven a car about twice in the last 10 years.

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I love walking, cycling, running. I love trees and clean air. I love working with students, teaching cardio respiratory health. I don?t like my road becoming the dustbin of other people?s cars. If everyone in an LTN was banned from driving down EDG I?m sure they would soon think about a more effective, less divisive and rational plan to reduce pollution across the WHOLE borough.

Rivers of London books on audible, narrated by the amazing Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

EDG could easily have a widened pavement and cycle lane, so also could the junction, it is just very badly planned, if the island moves over a bit of course a cycle lane works. We are not against less traffic and cycle lanes we are for less traffic and good planning. Southwark planning is useless and causes more pollution.

She was great and has had a Labour Councillor wishing her a ?place in hell?. A cult!

They are so tied to LTNs that it is like a cult.. no reasoned argument or proof of increased pollution will change their group-think. I imagine if people started dying or pollution related respiratory conditions it would be a case of ?bedding in? ?traffic causes traffic? or the latest sent to me on Twitter ?nonsense?.

We need to do this

Wow, what a mess! The electoral college is an insane way for a democracy to work..... still we don?t have PR, so it?s a bit messy here too really..

It?s almost as though Southwark Councillors in areas where there are LTNs have a private vanity project rather than a global view of the area. There is very little evidence that LTNs improve pollution across the borough, in fact idling traffic creates more. Unfortunately they really have made up their minds and are unable to listen to any one else. ?Wait until it?s bedded in? , ?it?s because there are roadworks? Only solution is a campaign and the courts. Sue Southwark for making certain roads toxic to residents and endangering health.

Another morning of idling traffic, pollution and misery on EDG...children, joggers, cyclists and residents all enjoying the fumes, pollution, noise and the misery courtesy of Southwark Council.

During half term the traffic was less awful, schools back and it?s just terrible out there. A good balanced article in the Observer mentions Rosamund. She campaigns for clean air for ALL. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/01/car-free-neighbourhoods-the-unlikely-new-frontline-in-the-culture-wars?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other