BrandNewGuy

Update on the Melbourne Grove pavement outside the hairdressers. Chap came on Monday morning to 'fix' them. Seven are now wobbly again. Completely useless. And yes, it's Conways. Please can one of our councillors get them to do them *again* at their own expense and not ours. edited for sp

Would it be asking too much to have all new members moderated for there first (one or two) posting on the forum? These multiple posts are a blinkin' nuisance...

Very excited to see an osprey flying high over ED this morning at 8.50. It was slowly heading east-ish above Melbourne Grove at the Grove Vale end. It's migration time, so not completely unusual - there's been an osprey around the small lakes near Reigate in the last day or two and no doubt others around and about.

What's a CPZ got to do with it? I was one of the loudest objectors to that idea, but would happily see 20mph limit on all Southwark's residential roads. But you like to see a web of conspiracy everywhere.

Well, if you can hardly get to 20mph, why object to it as a limit? I'd approve of a 20mph limit on all residential roads in towns and cities - 30mph is crazily fast on a residential road with parking on both sides and tight corners at the ends. Our local A roads (Lordship Lane, Grove Vale, East Dulwich Grove and East Dulwich Road) are a different matter, however. I'd stick with a 30mph limit on those, but look to having other 'shared use' traffic calming measures at busy points.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > but how are you expected to see a car > overtaking a bus at the lights until it's right on > top of you? > > Stop and peer cautiously around the bus while > half way across the road? > > If you want to check, that's the way to do it. > And if you don't check, you run the risk of > contributing to an accident. *Contributing* to an accident by being hit by a vehicle you can't see that's overtaking at a crossing??

lane lover Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Weird post. I look both ways regardless of what a > little green man says. Until they put down lead > barricades at lights, I will continue to do so. > > One of the first things I was taught in Common > Sense 101. No reason why the OP didn't look both ways - but how are you expected to see a car overtaking a bus at the lights until it's right on top of you? Stop and peer cautiously around the bus while half way across the road?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The twinkly light failures were due to dodgy goods > sold by Philips replaced at their expense. But that's only the latest phase in the history of these lights, which goes back about to the installation of the white ones about eight years ago, after which they gradually fizzled out.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Like painting Bollards pretty colours and carving > Totem Poles. > > DulwichFox You forgot the twinkly lights outside the station that need mending at huge expense

Melbourne Grove outside the hairdessers is appalling - at least a dozen wobbly paving stones. Walking along there is like surfing. And yes, they only redid it a few years ago.

tomk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Admittedly read it v quickly, but large part of > report seems to focus on the car park going. Have > lived here for many years, including driving to > LL, and honestly can say I don't know where the > car park even is. Plus, didn't local residents > vote against the CPZ? This is not in what was the proposed CPZ area. If anything, a CPZ puts stress on those streets just outside its boundaries, so the parking 'stress' at the proposed site would likely be even worse.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this sufficiently clear and answering your > question? Yes indeed - many thanks.

Tr? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'there was never any doubt that Bowie is a genius, > but if there had been, this list should more than > quiet any critics' > > Great, all I need to do is read these books and > I'm quids in for Mensa. Some of them look pretty > heavy going though so I hope uncomprehending skim > reading still qualifies. Skim reading definitely qualifies. These Big Swinging Books lists are always suspect. I have a sneaking regard for people such as novelist Jim Crace, who 'admitted' in yesterday's Standard: 'I've never read a Dickens and I've never read a Hardy. Or a Bront?. Or a Virginia Woolf. Or a Henry James.' No doubt the literati are horrified...

Hello James, With regard to the new Morrisons development (+ flats) next to East Dulwich station on the site of the old garden centre, can you confirm that the development includes "a new Grove Vale library - double the size of the current one" as stated on the forum last year?

Cyclists, pedestrians, car drivers ? shower of b*stards.

The coffee shop's called Piece Of Cake Cafe. Looks like it's nearly ready to open.

cerinthe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi > This may seem an odd request - does anyone have a > photo of the giant snow phallus that was built in > snow on Peckham Rye in winter 2010? My boyfriend > refuses to believe me it wasn't my imagination... Errm, and he's probably feeling inadequate. Go gently with this... ;-)

Looks to me like sandwiches, snacks, coffee etc. There's a coffee machine installed and I saw a sign (which hadn't been put up) listing sandwiches. Will snoop some more...

Maybe, but the chart in that article shows both bike and car sales on a downard trend since 2006.

But if cycling stayed at the same level it is today, do the think the laws are OK as they are?

"The data doesn't take into account second-hand car sales, only new vehicle registrations but the bike data also only refers to sales of new products." And I wonder if it includes little kids' bikes which are wheeled around the garden and the park. In any case, I don't disagree with the spirit of your conclusion, I'm just not sure these figures are a helpful part of the argument.

... and 'no junk mail' doesn't work either. It might deter pizza / estate agent flyers but 'junk mail' as it's normally understood is direct mail advertising through the post - and the postman is legaly obliged to deliver it.

Tiny Little Verbal Thing That Causes Me Irrational Rage: "bad boys" - as in, "Feast your eyes on these bad boys." Stop it!

And the non-parody urban middle class living area(s) would be where?

It's a forum. If you don't like people challenging your opnions, don't post on a forum.