Dogkennelhillbilly

I'm touched you're taking such an interest in my home address, but I'm going to have to disappoint you by telling you your assumptions are completely wrong. Considering the small but hyperactive number of headcases, vandals and oddballs that are going around smashing things up and pursuing hate campaigns against people on Twitter, I think anyone would be mad to give away too many identifying details on here. As for LTNs being Southwark's answer to the Berlin Wall... thousand people were murdered by the troops of Stalinist East Germany trying to cross the border. I await Godwin's Law reaching its natural conclusion on this one...

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nope it's Sept data - EDG East > Jan 2019 - 8140 > Sept 2021 - 11007 > > Gilkes Crescent - 0 What date in January 2019? What's Gilkes Crescent got to do with anything? It was closed to stop rat running years (decades?) before LTNs

I don't have one but I think apps like Google Maps and Strava can measure the distance between pins pretty accurately if you can't find an old style wheel

redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ > I believe the problem is the classic UK problem, > which is poor design and build standards in this > country. The design and build standards in the UK a hundred years ago - which is when most of the houses around here were built - were pretty good.

goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Its a bit like suggesting that cigarettes with > filters are better than roll ups... ...and then making your neighbours smoke them!

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Estate agent - "Fox Lane is a sought-after road > currently falling within the ltn (Low Traffic > Neighbourhood Scheme)." > > Ka-ching! Christ, if we're going to use estate agents' advertising as proof of anything... 🤣

exdulwicher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > that is a well-known distraction > technique, it's called "policy perfectionism". > Push for "perfect" solutions that are equitable to > all, cause inconvenience to no-one, removes 50%+ > of cars from the roads, drops pollution by 50%+ > etc etc. Basically stuff that does not exist and > and never could. Similarly the people (not heartblock, to be fair) saying "oh, I'd LOVE to take the bus, but TfL just needs to make it better and more convenient for me". That ignores buses can't improve much while private cars are clogging up roads, and at some point these people are gonna have to get their arse along to the bus stop. There is no solution that does not involve a little effort. It's also allied to "concern trolling" - dressing up your real motivations in the guise of caring for others. For example - the residents of multiple car owning mansions on Dulwich Village suddenly being struck by a deep commitment to racial justice, as articulated by Tristan and Clive.

With hospitals knee-deep in COVID cases, it's not a good day to have an asthma attack or heart attack. Taking it easy for one day seems reasonable. It's not the advice that's shocking - it's the fact that we are normalised to air that breathing it while running is dangerous.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It seems that many of the wealthy want the > privilege of...parking for 3 cars Striking that no-one wants pollution or congestion but no-one wants resident parking zones that limit car ownership and short trips. People spend thousands a year on cars, fuel, insurance and maintenance, but lose their minds about ?80-150 to pay for a year's parking on the public property outside their house. Someone (maybe even you) mentioned how much better transport was in northern Southwark. A big part of that is that residents are poorer and parking is strictly limited. In the leafier South the residents are richer, own more cars, and mostly enjoy free unlimited parking at taxpayer expense.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Today London is on a high pollution alert - what > does this mean? Maybe it means on high pollution days in a climate emergency private car movements should be prohibited for most people. We should be maintaining the basic minimum quality for breathable air for our kids and triageing road space allocation for those who really, really need it. Retention or removal of one LTN won't solve London's air quality but heartblock is right to point to the micro problem on EDG (which existed before LTNs). There is one microsolution that would have a big impact on this road: stop the parents of the private schools located on it from driving their kids to and from the campus.

There's oftwn an inverse relationship between the states and the bile so local politics can be savage (as this thread shows). Coincidentally the Tories have just announced their candidates and their policies are as follows: 1) LTNs are bad 2) LTNs are bad 3) Labour is bad because of the LTNs https://www.dwnconservatives.com/news/dulwich-conservatives-announce-candidates-dulwich-village-ward So whoever wanted their single issue candidates here they are. Interesting also that one of them was also the driving force (no pun intended) behind the recently-formed "Dulwich Alliance" and the "Dulwich Village, College Road and Woodyard Lane Residents Association", both of which have been issuing statements against LTNs.

To me...to Roux...

Media personality and gaming enthusiast Dominik Diamond, enthusing about small town Canadian ice hockey leagues, in the pub on the corner of North Cross Rd and Lordship Lane.

The technology exists, but there's a limit to how much text you can put on a roadsign.

jazzer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clearly there's a rat in No.10, well we knew that, > no doubt the search is in full swing We know there's a love rat in No 10, that's for sure. The real question is whether any Tory contender for the job will stab him in the back...or will they wait until after May elections? And will we end up with someone who appeals more to the right wing of the Tory membership (Truss, Patel), someone more technocratic and supposedly business oriented (Sunak), or someone more Centrist and post-COVID cuddly (...???).

Why put in an FoI request when the figure has been published in the newspapers already? It's in the link on the thread above. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ulez-expansion-tfl-diesel-polluting-sadiq-khan-north-south-circular-b971107.html

Who wants Johnson's job? Who's outside the cabinet and wants (back) in after a reshuffle? Who wants Cressida Dick's job? What is actually surprising is that this HASN'T come out before considering at least 100 people knew. I wouldn't have thought this administration had the discipline to keep a secret - so they've proved me wrong.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the 20mph speed limit in Southwark > first of all slowed bus journeys down... > It's common to wait over 20 minutes for a P4 to > Lewisham in Dulwich Common because the bus gets > stuck in the jam which was already bad before the > LTN, but is even worse now. Any evidence for the claim that buses have been delayed by 20mph speed limits in Southwark? It's not like they were usually hammering up to 30mph in the 500 yards between bus stops. If P4 buses were getting stuck in "the jam" (which one?), that would delay them but wouldn't affect the interval at which they arrived at any stop. The P4 does run at 20 minute intervals at some points in the day...

Cressida Dick inexplicably kept her job last year.

jazzer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Daily standing charge up by 66% Pretty scuzzy to raise the standing charge, isn't it? The fuel price has obviously increased, but their cost of finance, labour, maintenance for the network hasn't gone up by two thirds...

You mean...build the Garden Bridge and demolish the Mound in one go??!?

cidolphus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So on a hot day your fridge motor runs > much more consuming more energy. In cold weather > your heat pump runs much more and consumes more > electricity. Well, yeah - obviously any heat/chill source is going to consume more energy the greater the difference between ambient temp and target temp.

It's mostly people dumping their trees inconsiderately. It's always like this in January.

Moovart Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I believe it's to do with laws on advertising > boards, same way estate agents have to take their > signs down within a certain time when a property > is sold. It's exactly this - zooming in on the letter shows the advertising regulations cited. The estate agent boards have been up for a year or so.

"Leighton Giles?2 days ago This is a wonderful example of not what to do and must serve as a remembrance to things so bad they?re good. Long live the Mound" I agree with this and suggest the Mound should be renamed the "Vison Board Dumbshit Spending Other People's Money Memorial". The Council could have paid for dozens of social workers or teachers or environmental health offices or anything else...