Dogkennelhillbilly

The Conservatives were voted out in May 2024. And tbf this wasn’t even in their Top 20 of central government failures.

“The increase was blamed on “seasonal weather and temperature variations” and only eight of the [32] locations saw more nitrogen dioxide by December last year than in August 2023.”

I’m dead against it, to be honest.

To call that a non sequitur would be generous.

“[Brent] wants riders to park in cordoned-off areas only and increased fines for those who don’t. Lime says it is willing to work with Brent Council but wants more of these parking zones to ensure it is still a convenient service for its customers in the borough. …Wandsworth Council says it will largely ban e-bikes being left anywhere on pavements once it has finished building 111 dedicated parking areas. “ That’s exactly what is being proposed for Southwark, isn’t it? Seems reasonable and I’d be in favour (so long as there is also a roving band of AI droids identifying and immediately shredding all Lime bikes not parked in approved areas).

…and then goes onto explain in some detail the nature of non-tailpipe pollution that electric and fossil fuel vehicles alike produce. The RAC is not known for its sandal-wearing, yoghurt-weaving, anti-car propaganda. Electric vehicles and “modern technology” are not going to eradicate air and noise pollution and congestion as serious concerns. (If you think they will - invest heavily in properties along the South Circular - you’ll make tons of money!). Increased autonomous vehicle usage and increased population in London is going to increase the demand for journeys at all times of day.

Maybe you can just wander along to Dulwich Marina and get them for free, then.

It’s complete nonsense that electric vehicles will solve pollution: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/do-electric-vehicles-produce-more-tyre-and-brake-pollution-than-petrol-and/ Traffic jams (regardless of how that traffic is fuelled) cost the economy billions: https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/economic-impact-congestion-london Traffic noise pollution kills: https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/06/29/noise-pollution-mapping-the-health-impacts-of-transportation-noise-in-england/ But, to be fair, if your position is that what we have now is OK and we shouldn’t try to fix anything - well, at least that’s honest.

Not sure whether you want the council to enforce parking restrictions or not have them at all. 🤷

That doesn’t make any sense at all. If that were the case, the parking spaces would be heavily restricted - not given away for free and blocked up by dodgy trucks and vans for days, weeks or months at a time.

Individual business owners are notorious for overestimating how many of their customers drive to their shops, and overestimate the importance of free parking to shoppers. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/354672/hochul-congestion-pricing-manhattan-diners-cars-transit https://findingspress.org/article/24497-local-business-perception-vs-mobility-behavior-of-shoppers-a-survey-from-berlin https://cidadanialxmob.tripod.com/shoppersandhowtheytravel.pdf

The “Arizona” registration plate on the pickup truck is fake. £1000 fine. https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?registration=Mku254w&checkRecalls=true https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates

Source: trust me, bro The empirical evidence suggests otherwise. But in any case no one is seriously proposing what you are opposing. https://www.businessinsider.com/downtowns-cities-holiday-shopping-eliminating-street-parking-spots-boosts-retail-2023-10?amp https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692323002053?via%3Dihub

A lot of pearl clutching about “lying” and “gaslighting” from the council, but it doesn’t sit well with spreading falsehoods about Southwark paying for the private works of the Dulwich Estate and mad conspiracy theory rants about Marxists.

Glad we all agree that road space for parking is a scarce resource and that the council giving it away for free is madness.

Seems like the council has listened, and has hacked back the scope of the proposed CPZ, and is now sending the smaller scheme to a formal consultation. Some truly North Korean turnout from our comrades on Druce Rd!

More #southwarkderangementsyndrome : you disapprove of something, therefore it must be the council’s fault and it gets shoehorned into a totally irrelevant discussion. FWIW the Hunts Slip Road works are a Dulwich Estate project. Shouldn’t an anti-Marxist like you be more supportive of private landlord like the Estate? https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/whats-happening/the-dulwich-estate-improves-road-safety-for-vulnerable-users https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/whats-happening/hunts-slip-road-and-section-of-college-road-vehicle-access-closure-notice

PECAN is the food bank for which the church on Barry Rd (Christ Church East Dulwich) collects shelf stable food donations in its foyer. PECAN works across the whole of Southwark. You can also donate money to PECAN through its website if you want. They collect money as well as food because they need to rent storage space, employ a handful of staff, pay for food to be picked up and delivered, keep the lights on…and buy fresh fruit and veg in bulk. https://www.pecan.org.uk/donate/

None of the other bike/scooter spaces are specific to one company, although I think the car share spaces are allocated to particular companies. It seems fair enough if that if they or anyone else want space to park their vehicles on public roads then they should pay for it. After all, as our friend @raptortruckman69 says, there's only a limited amount of road space...

Is that the 82 foot tower above the school... almost a decade ago... and outside Dulwich Village? Or has there been another one since then?

The networks don't accept there's a not spot. What applications and refusals in Dulwich Village are we talking about specifically? The only one mentioned so far was last year - and the reasons for binning it seem pretty reasonable.

You're frustrated by it - that doesn't mean everyone else is. I don't think bickering with private phone companies to improve service for the residents of leafy Dulwich Village (oh no! My garden is so big I'm too far from a mast!) is a good use of councillors' limited time. Better they stick to things directly relevant to Southwark's remit, like social care, libraries, parks, youth activities and persecuting a neo-Stalinist War on Motorists.™

That is fantastic news! Congratulations to the workers for bravely sticking up for their rights and congratulations to the United Voices of the World union! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Paying the London Living Wage is only fair. We can't end up with London being so unaffordable that the people who keep it running can't live here!

...is contradicted by the operators' own coverage maps.

Fair to say that fragments of years old blog posts by some councillor about road closures don't loom as large in the public consciousness as they do in the minds of some people on here.