Dogkennelhillbilly

I'm not saying there is nothing to lock them to. I am saying that lazy users don't lock them to anything. The old Lime bikes would not the rider complete the rental without attaching a cable lock into the frame. The new bikes can be left anywhere - and so people do.

You've got totally the wrong end of the stick here. Bikes are bikes regardless of who owns them. You don't need a permit or agreement with the council to rent or use them in Southwark. The reason we have never had major problems with bikes blocking pavements in the past was because people locked them to things which by their nature don't tend to be right in the middle of pavements. Southwark isn't luring bike rental companies into a trap because they have neither the secrecy nor the legal power to close the trap.

Dockless bikes should - like Lime/Uber's old bikes - have an integral cable lock, and users should have to lock them to something in order to terminate the ride. This would bring them back in line with privately owned bikes, which never get "abandoned" in the middle of SODDING PAVEMENTS Yeah but predictable when you radically increase the usage of scooters. The more interesting question is whether they're replacing car journeys (good), relieving capacity on public transport at peaks (good), inducing new journeys (maybe bad), or just cannibalizing public transport ridership (bad).

It's pointless posting on here about it. Email your councillor and/or the highways team at Southwark and/or Co-Op

It's too cheap! It's too expensive! It's too plain there! Now it's too colourful! The road is too quiet! No, it's too busy!

Moan moan moan

Which recent road closures? Peace and Riot premises are beautiful, and their back garden is lovely, but it's a rough time to open a business - esp a cafe or bar around there.

Southwark should reduce the affordable housing requirement and increase the density. Right now that lot is housing 0 people, which is no good to anyone. More widely: landlords shouldn't be allowed to keep properties derelict or vacant for years.

Yet you seem to have managed to argue about it with someone who does speak Greek and tell them what to do...

Talks in riddles WHY not say what mean ... just give up with members like this If you're responding to me lol

I think there's a drop off point for PECAN/Southwark Foodbank in the modern atrium/cafe entrance of Christ Church at the top of Barry Rd. https://maps.app.goo.gl/5EBkR34Kb2Gcbsj49 You can also drop off at the Co-Op supermarket or at Oru shared workspace/cafe https://southwark.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ Good for you, Sue

lol - healthy competition between a massive transnational corporation and two family-owned, single location shops. You spoon https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09127609/persons-with-significant-control

Unfortunately, if you skip them, there's a pile of valuable metal that won't be recycled, and a harmful battery that shouldn't be burned or landfilled. Theft would be a much more sustainable and ethical option. Were you in the pram at the time? To be less flippant: the 1 pram per bus maximum is actually a big problem on the 185, 3, P4....

If there are multiple bikes, let alone 20, they haven't been left there by a USER. They've been left there by the company itself, which periodically drops off bikes so they're spread around town. Unfortunately these guys can't be bothered to spend more than 3 seconds throwing them out the back of a transit van. Urban Forest are particularly bad - worse than Lime now.

It's the owner I sneer at. I was actually in among the feral youths, beggars, blaggers and general wasters (as you might call them) of the Spoons in Forest Hill a couple of days ago. Maybe we can meet for a pint there? I'm sure you're a nice person. PM me - quick before you get banned (again). https://eastdulwichforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=2069838#p2069838

Wow, they're nuts. Why bother? Good luck with getting it all sorted

No-one ever goes onto Trustpilot to say that everything's going fine with their monopolist water utility... What exactly has gone wrong for you?

Planning portal says that the former Barclays Bank in Dulwich Village is going to be a dental surgery.

Cartoonist Posy Simmons, discussing croutons in rather good French with a jolly stallholder on North Cross Road. Mark Curry was standing behind her but it didn't seem interested - not sure if that's because he objects to croutons (as I do) or just he doesn't speak French.

How much "dialogue nuance" [sic] is a person who uses a slur entitled to? "Who are you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?"

Adam's Cafe (39 Grove Vale, next to Cherry Tree pub) has been taken over by a couple of friendly young guys. Classic cafe food done nicely, and very reasonable prices. Meanwhile, Tesco Metro in West Dulwich is closed for two weeks while they renovate in. Hopefully they can make it feel a little less gloomy.

🎣 Looking forward to you opening up a bakery called "Nuns' Farts & Cappuccinos".

Yeah...well...kaffir lime might be a real food, but I wouldn't name my business after it... Why? Vegans can't be dodgy? 🤣 You know who else was a vegan, don't you?

Wetherspoons business isn't about buying short dated beer tho. You don't supply hundreds of pubs with hectolitres of Stella and WKD every week with leftovers.

Hopefully someone who isn't Tim Martin can take it over and run it, keeping the reasonable prices and food. I just can't forgive him for his Brexit views or for being the dad of the Coldplay bloke.