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This is completely mad. 50 year old conspiracy theories about bus routes!

Yes, absolutely, the OneDulwich guy should get on board! Meanwhile, someone is spending and taking lots of money spreading anti-ULEZ sentiment through fake accounts on social media. 🤔 https://valent-projects.com/news-and-insights/evidence-of-online-manipulation-in-uk-public-debate/

Whatever the councillor's response was, the shadowy OneDulwich "group" had no intention of accepting it. (Well, maybe if he had performed hari-kiri they would have taken it into account). OneDulwich is just a conga line of Sealions. They're not good faith actors. There is no position except rejection of any measures that interfere with cars, and their espoused concern for disabled drivers doesn't extend to getting out their way! "Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning Has OneDulwich published details of its funding and membership yet? Or have we all just accepted the only identifiable "member" is a single, former PR executive with a bee in his bonnet?

Leave this to schools and police for the sake of all the children involved.

Experienced it - yes. Stopped it - noooo... It's extra terrifying because the screeches sound so close to humans screams sometimes.

It's not Dulwich or Peckham, but... Bistro Chez Lucie has opened opposite Gipsy Hill station. It looks like a very nice, classic, casual French bistro serving all the classics: moules, beef Bourguignon, cassoulet etc. Mains are £16-26. www.bistrochezyves.co.uk

Is this some sort of nonsense where you pretend that someone told you ULEZ compliant vehicles don't pollute and now you're shocked to learn that exhaust fumes are bad for your health?

OP: see if your kids' school has a Safer Routes to School parent rep or teacher rep. They may be able to advise you. I take it you're worried about secondary school kids going on their own? There does tend to be a spate of robberies of schoolkids (by other schoolkids, mostly) each September and October in Dulwich. Anecdotally, each time it's a different group of 4-5 kids that think they've worked out a great scam, so they do it a few times and then they get caught. Riding on Greendale will be safer and healthier than riding on the main roads or taking the bus, so I wouldn't stop my kids riding there. But of course every parent has to make their own decision.

Acre Lane Tyres (opposite big Tesco in Brixton) have always been great with my family. Very reasonable prices for fitting and puncture repair. They didn't try to rip off or talk down to my mum when she went along not knowing what she needed. https://g.co/kgs/kxwucA

Entertainer and provocateur Jerry Sadowitz, eating cheese and French (or possibly Italian) bread al fresco. IDNSHC.

Gail's is replacing Agile Rabbit, which is a shame because Agile Rabbit had great coffee and pizza, and the staff were always really nice. Is Gail's the first ever chain store on that parade outside Herne Hill station? I think the old betting shop might have been a Ladbrokes at one point, but apart from that I don't remember any chains being there.

In my research, which was limited and amateur, I thought it was odd that I only came across one person who could be identified as a "member" of OneDulwich. And no-one here claims membership, despite this being a bit of a hub of "passionate" (cough) opponents of LTNs. That one person I did come across does double duty speaking for two supposedly distinct "groups" - Dulwich Alliance and OneDulwich. That person has had a long career in PR. And the OneDulwich "group" operates as a political outrider for the local Tory candidates and vice versa. Even though the one (1) identifiable member of OneDulwich has been quoted on the record in national newspapers and voluntarily written to their letters pages, I'm still reluctant to post the links and mention the guy's name because (as this thread has shown) there have been some extremely nasty and personalised attacks by anonymous users against real people. It's easy to research all this stuff online, for free, with a modicum of effort. It's totally possible, of course, that OneDulwich really does have lots and lots of members, and genuinely has a mandate to "represent" a real number of local residents, in which case perhaps their endless wibbling about data should be entertained. I'm sure they have tons of data that would prove or disprove this point, and they have certainly been enthusiastic about transparent sharing of data in the past. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/sep/07/astroturfing-energy-citizens-us

I am not clear what you are saying here. Are you saying that the "members" of OneDulwich that met with Cllr McAsh are actually just the two Tory candidates?

Knowing Uber/Lime, that's almost certainly not Lime doing anything, but one of its totally independent, definitely not a disguised worker subcontractors. The gig economy is rough.

You've actually just brilliantly demonstrated the OneDulwich playbook: object to the issue, deny any data exists, and then when presented with the data, begin a metaphysical conversation about what the meaning of "data" is in relation to some other subject. 👏🤣

Yes. Number of identifiable "members" of the OneDulwich "group" to date: 1. Number of opaque anti-LTN "groups" for which that member acts as a spokesman: 2. Number of political parties exactly aligned with OneDulwich to date: 1.

I did a little experiment of reporting yesterday and: 1) although the app captures the location of the bike when you create the report, I have received an (automated?) follow up email asking me to supply the location of the bike 2) there seems to be a maximum number of reports you can make per day, maybe around 10...which is a problem when there is a broken or badly parked bike every bloody fifteen steps! Actually, I was wrong about this. I walked past again yesterday - I hadn't realised how long the bike bay was. It does in fact go 2 or 2.5 metres across the charity shopfront too. Apologies.

Does it? Is there any data to back that up...? 🤣

That's partially true, but OneDulwich claims to be a group that represents local residents, and that's the basis on which its repetitive and disingenuous questions on data should be entertained for years on end. But is it actually a group or just a guy with an email address and a knack for PR? Evidently not the Tory candidates' - they positioned the last council election as a referendum on LTNs, and were demolished. The very local community has kind of taken a decision on this issue through the medium of elections...

Yes, it's definitely a conspiracy between the evil geniuses at Southwark Council, Thames Water, and Thames Water's contractor to something something something LTNs. That's definitely the most plausible explanation that any reasonable person would land on. 🙄 #southwarkderangementsyndrome

Ahh, I've found it. It's not bad. If anyone else has the app and is looking for it - click on the little outline of a person in the top left hand corner; then click "help"; then click "improper or illegal parking"; then scan the QR code of the vehicle, and upload photos. Reported vehicles show up on the map with a little diamond icon - meaning that if a user rents it and parks it properly at the end, they will get a discount on the rental fee.

I think the OneDulwich Twitter account was asked this in the past but declined to answer it. Perhaps the person operating the account missed the question. To be fair, there is a lot of rubbish on Twitter. Going back through the Twitter account, it looks like there's only ever been one person publicly associated with OneDulwich as its co-founder. That person is something of a frequent letter writer to the newspapers, sometimes on behalf of OneDulwich and separately on behalf of Dulwich Alliance. (OneDulwich has said it supports Dulwich Alliance's position, but presumably is not supposed to be the same as Dulwich Alliance). OneDulwich also claims to represent 1100 supporters... 🤔

Good luck, Matil. 👍

Sorry - "fake forum name" - I meant that practically all forum users (including me) use fake names to post on here. I probably could have explained that better - sorry for any confusion. I don't see why the comparison to Taxpayers Alliance is so upsetting. They're both groups that position themselves as speaking on behalf of large groups of people, that demand total transparency from others, and yet are not very forthcoming about their own funding and operation. Does OneDulwich actually have "members" at all?

That's interesting - but do you mean the app itself or just the website? I'm asking because reporting through the website is very cumbersome with lots of fields that need to be completed, while renting a bike through the app is in contrast very easy - just point and snap. I can't see a reporting function through the app - but maybe I don't have the latest version.