BrandNewGuy

Louisa...

If the rents have been hiked, I'd love to see how long a lamb and halloumi wrap business lasts in this location. Actually, even if they haven't been hiked.

Gabe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy -- you don't need victim figures to > know this is horrible junction right at the point > where there are three schools (soon to be four) > and where one of Southwark's major cycle ways > crosses (and connects to two more large schools). > It is obvious this junction is a problem. > Hopefully it will be fixed before a tragic > accident. Which is why a trial would be wrong. Clear;ly some people don't care for evidence and 'just want something done'. If the evidence says that this junction isn't as dangerous as others, then who are you to contradict it? > And, yes, there are many other dangerous junctions > and road layouts.

Gabe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > fazer71 -- it's a horrible junction that is an > accident waiting to happen, so yeah, it needs > fixing The figures show there are other more dangerous junctions in ED and they are not benefiting from over ?200,000. Fix those and don't just throw money at a botched 'solution' because you fear an accident might happen.

So when you said, "I [put] them in a heavy duty plastic bag", you meant you tipped the weeds from that bag into the bin but didn't put the bag in?

No it's not. To clarify the OP, the film "Last Orders" (which is excellent) features some scenes filmed in Bellenden Road back in 2000. Here are some stills: http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=1225&film_ref=last_orders

As confirmed by a quick visit to the Council website: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/530/food_and_garden_waste

Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have signed up for Picturehouse membership. > However, I don't very much like being patronised > by Picturehouse on Facebook as one of the > "Wonderful people of East Dulwich". It's social media. Social media marketing is done by people under the age of 25. They believe that everyone else in the world is under the age of 25 too ? except for their parents and a few dribbling old people who watch "Countryfile". Even my bank talks like an excitable teenager on Facebook.

As others have suggested, we should be very suspicious of 'trials' and 'pilots'. We had exactly the same thing with the proposed CPZ. When the council realised the degree of reiststance, their last throw of the dice was proposing a CPZ for a trial period. I asked them the simple question: what are the criteria for the trial, how will it be measured and what would constitute success or failure? They had no answer, which showed that they were simply relying on apathy once the CPZ had been in place for a period of time. They clearly had no intention of allowing the trial to 'fail'. Same with these proposals.

Croydon Corudroy Pilchards ? tinned in tomato sauce

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've never even heard of Mrs Brown's Boys. Biggest TV ratings on Chrostmas Day. You're not a crusty High Court judge by any chance, Jeremy? ;-)

Star Wars Tolkien Mrs Brown's Boys

What's so undesirable about public transport?

Townleygreen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BNG, no you are wrong (again!) that is the point > of Quietways - they give long, safe routes through > the city. Obviously if you then want to go > somewhere else, yes, you'd need to leave them at > that point. Which is exactly my point. Again!

You questioned "we will always need cars/vans/lorries on our roads.." and I disagreed with you. As I mentioned before, cycle routes will always, at some points (possibly many), throw nervous cuclists into regular traffic. I'm questioning whether or not that's a wise approach.

On the council website, it gives a start date of Jan 15th and an end date of Jan 20th for resurfacing Trossachs Road. That's an impressively long time for a road that's about 120m long. Still, before Christmas, it took them a week to put down about three metres of tarmac on the pavement. Conway give such a great service, don't you think?

nunhead_man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Need? For an able bodied person, why not cycle to > the shops and not drive? Heavy shopping? Use a > cargo bike or trailer! But what about all those home deliveries? And deliveries to shops? And skips? And, when it comes to the local private schools, the perpetual round of builders and scaffolders? To suggest that London can do without vans, lorries and other essential vehicles is nonsense. And does it follow that more people using bikes rather than cars makes the roads safer? There's clearly much more to it than that, as there were far more pedestrian deaths and injuries back in the 70s and 80s when there were fewer cars on the road. FWIW I rarely use the car and use public tranpsort nearly all the time. And what's more, we didn't drive our children around either apart from when they were very small.

Townleygreen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So a few millions on much-needed cycling and > walking infrasturcture is very reasonable in > comparison. But not if it's badly planned, unco-ordinated and rides roughshod over local conditions.

It's not ridiculous. Giving only partial 'safe' routes and 'bays' for nervous cyclists is not sensible. At some point, they'll come out into 'normal' traffic. What do you propose then? Nervous cyclists need help, experience and, if necessary training. What they don't need are dangerously partial, unthought out 'solutions'.

Many thanks.

Not sparrows - they mostly stay very near where they were born, though winter food foraging can take them further afield.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi BNG, > I will try and clarify the discrepancy ASAP. Sorry to bug you, James, but it's only a few days away from the proposed resurfacing. I fear half the road's cars will be towed away given the lack of accurate information.

SteveUK1978 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Trains from ED were fine this morning for the > 8.10am, shows they can work at least! Arrived "on > time" 16 mins later. That had all gone to pot by the 8.30, which crawled along and then terminated at South Bermondsey. Frustratingly this was announced just after leaving QRP so no opportunity for people to hop on the Overground. Completely useless.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A prize was offered by the Independent newspaper > of ?5000 for the person who came up with a clear > scientific reason to why they were declining. This > was awarded a couple of years back to Kate Vincent > who found out that the lack of insect prey during > the breeding season was preventing house sparrows > raising healthy young. > > The question is why have insects declined in urban > areas? It seems that humans have changed the urban > landscape dramatically in recent decades with many > gardens lost under concrete and decking and many > sparrow sheltering hedges removed and replaced > with 'low maintenance' fencing. The over reliance > of garden chemicals is also a worry for garden > wildlife. Agreed about the garden chemicals ? slug and snail pellets are almost entirely reposible for the demise of urban song thrushes ? but there are other possibilities, one of which is the range of chhemical additives in lead-free petrol which might be responsible for the demise of the sparrows' food species. I'm not sure we've lost lots of hedges in recent years, so something else is going on. Sparrows are also highly sociable and nest in 'tribal' colonies, so the loss of even a few birds can cause the equivalent of 'colony collapse'.

Green Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The whole thing stinks. > These bl00dy cyclists are so selfish. > Let's all let the air out of their tyres! > GG There's no need to be a twat. No-one here is disregarding cycling safety. It's a question of weighing up the opinions and views of all 'stakeholders' (cyclists, pedestrains, drivers, local residents, TFL etc) and not letting the entire traffic process be hijacked by one narrow interest group.