Dogkennelhillbilly

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.

I happened to go down this stretch of Lordship Lane today. The rental bike space is outside the Dulwich Cafe, next to the charity shop, isn't it? The car parking spaces in front of the charity shop were filled with parked cars - like normal.

The remarkable thing about OneDulwich is that no-one has ever copped to being a member (even using a fake forum name) . Is it like the Taxpayers' Alliance?

To suggest that opponents of LTNs are being silenced is a weird kind of persecution complex, given that One Dulwich (and their proxies) have been banging on about this stuff for years, with leaflets, and posters, and banners, and a zillion threads each a hundred pages long on here. There was also an election that the Tory/OneDulwich candidate positioned as a referendum on LTNs...and a decisive result in favour of LTNs. The (cough) passions of the frequent flyers on here are not representative of wider reality. To be fair, you individually have always come across as entirely reasonable, fact-based and genuine.

I love a good conspiracy theory. Maybe Earl A has been sent by the World Economic Forum, the Masons or even more perfidious - Southwark Cyclists. How come the Bilderberg Group doesn't get blamed for stuff any more? They used to be all the rage.

This is just the repetitive data nihilism that he - I mean, OneDulwich - has pursued for years now: you can't prove this with data, or if you can prove it with data there isn't the data, or if the data exists then it isn't accurate, or if it is accurate then it's not the right data, or if it's the right data then there isn't enough of it, or if there is enough data then it's not analysed correctly... And this wibbling about requests for increasingly esoteric data from McCash is part of the same predictable playbook. It is an attempt to beat this dead data horse for more years. Whatever they are given, it won't be enough or it won't be right or they won't be printed in the right font. The data will never be enough to satisfy them because this tiny clique is not actually interested in the data.

This is exactly right. OneDulwich's tactic from the beginning has been to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) by madly banging out long and anonymous screeds of utter cobblers about data. There is no data that is good enough for him - I mean, them - because their objection is not to the data. The point is to drag you into their mire of nonsense. OneDulwich is Internet Reply Guy #6, the Sealion: https://twitter.com/i/events/1041376202391343104?lang=en And ultimately any data that doesn't fit their prejudices, they disregard:

I do use that path, but it's rubbish - it's narrow, uneven, and has several blind driveways. I understand why some wouldn't bother. I'm interested to hear how OneDulwich intends to reduce traffic and speed up buses on the South Circular. The (in their words) negligible revent growth in traffic shows it won't get better on its own. What is the solution that doesn't involve people driving less?

They've always been quite amenable to exemptions for residents - so I suppose you could say that they're in favour of other people driving less.

No, they haven't. It's all the same old claims.

One Dulwich and the Tories painted the last local elections as a referendum on LTNs. They got their arses handed to them. "we fully support the Council’s policies of reducing car use..." yeah, I bet the owner of the mansion next to Gail's with the seven cars parked on the drive and all the anti-LTN posters is really committed to that! 🤣🤣🤣

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/uploads/3/2/9/2/3292309/the-highway-code-road-traffic-signs.pdf 🤷‍♂️

See, the problem with this is that you've just made it up.

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. 👍