Dogkennelhillbilly

Maybe a decade + of austerity imposed by Tory central government? Don't worry, though, we're all in this together.

Second paragraph - completely agree. First paragraph - nice idea that a shift could be induced through consumer choice alone, but it can't happen. There is no way to really speed up bus routes without reducing the volume of other traffic in the way of buses first. TINA.

The number of people that want to travel from East Dulwich to the arse end of NW London by bus every day must be statistically insignificant. (No doubt Willesden residents feel the same about us). So what? The Overground has been completely rebuilt since 1980. Crossrail didn't exist. It's complete cobblers to say that going into zone 1 during weekday daytime isn't viable - as any of us that actually have jobs in Z1 can attest. Nostalgia for the public transport of 40+ years ago is just that - nostalgia. Objectively, it was fractionally slower, less accessible, less predictable, and more likely to give you lung cancer.

It's just not true, though. Average speed in Inner London in 1980 was...11.9mph. It's got fractionally faster in 40 years, despite the population growing by 50%. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1993-02-03/debates/bcc1e076-2ad2-4c29-971b-d1749d605227/TrafficSpeedInLondon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London The Lime etc bikes all have identification numbers and are all insured. Does that improve things for you? Suspect not - maybe registration and insurance aren't the panacea after all.

The average traffic speed in Inner London is 12mph. The idea that the number 12 bus isn't significantly faster because it's not getting up to 50mph on Barry Rd is just silly. The main thing slowing buses down is...automobile traffic in the way. Trains, trams, riverboats and cable cars (!) are of course unaffected by speed limits on roads. https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/average-traffic-speeds-1

I don't think you know your onions. Your real beef is with the mandarins of the Civil Aviation Authority. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-airspace-policy

90% chance the nutbar in question posts on here. Round up the usual suspects!

Clearly the campaign to degentrify East Dulwich and bring back Iceland has reached the sabotage phase.

👍👍👍 That seems a perfectly reasonable response by Southwark. Certainly more reasonable than what I would do (immediately nationalise poorly parked bikes and order the CEO to do 10 hours community service for each obstructed pavement).

The slightly odd (but often remarkably busy) Sion Restaurant adjoining West Dulwich Station is reopening or rebranding as "Hot N Juicy Shrimp LDN, est 2019". Hope they do well. 👍

It's an ad for CAMOL (campaign for more organic lead). They want lead put back in petrol, fluorinated water and white bread.

The Castle will, for sure. Everywhere else might be hit and miss. The Bishop may e, but afaics none of the Lordship Lane pubs have really ever gone big on any of the sports events. Maybe I'm wrong

Because their paycheques depend on it. Did you read the article? There was a huge amount of bullshit talked before 2012 about the "legacy" and why that justified so much public money being spent on something so apparently insubstantial. Ten years on, and the results are in: it was all bullshit, and the money was wasted on insubstantial crap. We could have built a lot of schools for that money.

It's true, they are sneaky little sods, those sycamores.

It's very kind of you to be concerned that it's my gloomy disposition that means I think the Olympic Games was a waste of money. The fact that the overwhelming majority of respondents in the sports industry (who, after all, have more incentive than most to believe in the magic of publicly-funded sportd events) agree with me makes me comfortable that it's not just me being miserable. To be fair, me being a miseryguts is unarguable.

I was bah humbug then and I'm bah humbug now about it. An immense amount of public money was sprayed with fire hoses into private pockets, and for what? "Overall, just 13% [of sports leaders] felt that the whole legacy promise had been delivered with 61% claiming the Games had failed to deliver the promises made. The biggest legacy failures were identified as delivering a sporting and physically active nation and inspiring a generation of young people to create a sporting habit for life." https://www.sportsthinktank.com/news/2022/07/london-2012-legacy-a-missed-opportunity

Yes, if you're referring to the Calton Avenue SE21 which, err, emergency vehicles can still freely drive up and down.

You know what really slows down emergency service drivers? People driving private cars. Surely then that's another good reason not to allow such journeys to take place.

That's true, but it's a bit less intrusive in Dulwich Park as it's tucked away just one section, and I do have to admit that it is much better run than Gala in terms of noise, litter etc. Brockwell Park closure is VERY intrusive with a huge chunk of the park closed off with massive structures. However, the one big difference there is that Lambeth gets to use the same infrastructure for the Lambeth Country Show, which is free to all and has a wide variety of stuff to interest just about everyone.

This is just irl trolling, surely.

Lovely to see the tin foil hat wearers out with the latest conspiracy theory about a blocked off junction in Dulwich Village. How many tickets do you think you could sell to ravers there - maybe 15 or 20,000? 🤣

IIRC Lime uses "independent contractors" as its "rejuicers", which is to say all these guys will be completely casualised, overworked, and paid as little as possible by Lime, just like Uber, Amazon and the rest. It's striking that the process for reporting badly parked bikes is not integrated into the app, is more complicated, and less accurate than the process for renting the bikes. I wonder if anyone actually reads the reports. Dumping bikes in the middle of pavements is already unlawful. I don't know whether the council has the power to simply remove bikes that are blocking pavements and crush them or hold them to ransom. But they should - it will be the only way Lime ever pays attention to the negative externalities of their own business model.

Maybe yes, maybe no - does it matter if they want the second weekend to target a different demographic? If it's still a private ticketed event, it still means temporary privatisation of the park, fences, noise, litter and traffic. Dulwich Park has "Pub In The Park" which is smaller and "family-oriented" but it's still a private event in a public park. To be fair - Pub In The Park does seem less problematic and better run than Gala.

I'm - I mean, he - is awesome!

Well, exactly. That's why it's silly to say "but it's only three days", because it ain't. On the rubbish: the big stuff does tend to be removed, true, but the seven billion fibreglass cigarette ends and small plastic bits are a different matter. I'm in the middle on this: if the council is getting enough money and if the site is actually properly cleaned, I'm okay with it. But I don't live so close to the site ghat i get bothered by the sound: if I can hear it, I just crank up my own hifi so my neighbours and I aren't disturbed by rubbish doof doof music.