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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/26/crash-for-cash-insurance-fraud-scam-moped-riders Article on the moped scam in the paper today.

Decimal currency led to this.

Definitely a strong entry for "shoehorn of the year". 🤣

Or at least says vaguely_mundane, a transport enthusiast on a mission to visit and rate every single station on the Underground and Overland networks. His videos are strongly hypnotic, affectionate and fun. And he's got a point. It is a bit odd that North Dulwich is one stop south of East Dulwich... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNTbY9wMFOw/

Very good news...for people that live in Denmark Hill and not Dulwich! 🤣

Anyway back to the bus service: it seems like a good idea to me. There are times when getting from Dulwich to Clapham Junction would be very useful, and the 37 is lovely but slow...

@Sue - try this one to see the proposed bus stops. Everything after the question mark in the original is tracking code and sometimes they fall over. Also Amazon Web Hosting (which seems to host the document for TfL) has been wobbly today. https://ehq-production-europe.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ce32459998ce01d44ce27d1f23c543bd84338c82/original/1759936980/3bc1b1bf3ec42ce77542fa4ddd82c87a_sl15-bus-stop-list.pdf It's an express service so the only Dulwich relevant stops seem to be: * Tulse Hill Hotel for Tulse Hill * West Dulwich * Wood Vale/Lordship Lane * Forest Hill

On the upside, for anyone that is still following: the fountain seems to have been reinstalled in roughly the same position! Hopefully the responsible driver's insurance company paid and not the good taxpayers of Lambeth...again...

Just a short silly one among more prosaic or gloomy posts: libraries are brilliant and we are lucky to have them! I popped into Dulwich Library this afternoon. It was pretty busy and I'd guess there were probably 40-50 people in, plus however many in the kids' section. All sorts of people were borrowing books, getting their blood pressure checked on the machine, printing documents, using computers, getting out the house and off the street, reading the papers and reference books, whatever. Oldies, kids, students and everyone in between. At exam time, it's a safe space rammed with kids studying. It's an elegant building, the staff always seem to be doing their best despite the obvious money challenges, it's open late most days, and all for £0 at point of use. We are all very lucky to have access to Dulwich Library and the other libraries! 👏👏👏

Bit of a stretch to call it a "local gem" when it's part of a chain, though...

This is very sad. The coffee shop replaced a dingy yard where a couple of cars were parked, and it's a nice little spot to sit and have a coffee. Hopefully Stephanie the owner can continue to get the support of local punters and can find a way to secure the space. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/im-facing-bankruptcy-after-south-32603357

Just as an update almost a year later: the fountain that survived ~125 years has not been reinstated in the same location. It's just a flat pedestrian crossing (with no additional protections for pedestrians or other vulnerable road users) now. Not sure if the fountain has been moved somewhere that's more protected from road violence, if it's simply been regarded as destroyed by the crash or something else. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah sorry

🤦‍♂️ I for one am stunned to see that Southwark Council is linked to...Southwark Council. Thank god Mr OneDulwich is there to map these things out. Will he be making a similar diagram mapping out the links between OneDulwich, One Greenwich, One Jesmond and the various other odd "community groups that the community can't join" that sprang up...and the local branch of the Conservative party?

There are growing concerns about the increasing number of individuals presenting themselves as community organisations and pumping out misinformation in the Dulwich area. This is a particular problem at the Dulwich Village/Court Lane/Calton Avenue junction. FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) pumped out at speed are especially dangerous.

Rest assured that I doubt anyone has the slightest expectation that @Rockets or Mr One Dulwich will ever stop banging on about it. 🤣 But the hysterical tone of posts on this forum and the OneDulwich emails doesn't reflect the reality of what people who live, work and study near Dulwich Square. If you actually emerge from your basement, come to the strip and speak to people (and I notice that two of the loudest voices on here don't actually live in Dulwich or even Southwark), they're just not in some constant rage about the closure of a small junction in suburban London five years ago. And that's reflected by the pisspoor election results of the Conservative candidates who twice in a row have run on an anti-LTN platform. Very few people who actually live there are agitated about this subject at all.

Then if you want to be pissy about it, OP is off topic because it's about a junction in Dulwich Village. Anyway...the sign says the restrictions apply Monday to Friday. It doesn't make exceptions for bank holidays or mention weekends. It is what it is, unfortunately.

Yeah but what happens if I need to drive across a pavement because I'm in a rush or just a bit too busy texting? Why should I be punished by a static object like a bollard? I think the bollards should be removed. Also, people should stop moaning if I occasionally brush up against their cars when I'm driving. So what if you lost a wing mirror or a bumper? People keep jumping to the conclusion that I'm a shitty inattentive driver, but it's not my fault, it's all the bloody EU safety features these days.

It's complete bollocks. Look in the app. There's a bay next to the bookshop, a bay on Turney/Aysgarth, a bay on Burbage/Dulwich Village, a bay at the bottom of College Rd, a bay at the bottom of Court Lane...and in any case the app lets you terminate the rental by one of the other bike racks. Honestly, first you lot complain there's too much bike parking and then you complain there's not enough!

There are parking spots on the same side of Half Moon Lane and on Eynella Rd, which is the nearest side street.

Thank you for the insight into what they do, @Pugwash. I didn't know the hospice cafe was open to the public - I should stop by sometime.

Oh absolutely Rockets, gosh, OP's very suggestion that reckless driving had anything to do with a car ending up on its roof was so offensive I had to object to it. Obviously cars end up flipped over in the middle of the road for all sorts of reasons: blancmange incidents, wrinkles in the space-time continuum, spontaneous art installations, who knows? We have literally no idea what caused it - just as in fact you have no idea that it wasn't Sister Mary Josephine suffering a sneezing attack while dropping off neonatal feline milk.

You don't think that as much as it could have been careless or dangerous driving it could also have been caused by a driver having to take evasive action to avoid a pedestrian walking into the road whilst staring at their phone?

No. "Observations". https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6720ae033758e4604742a838/prison-safety-policy-framework.pdf

This is just typical of the anti-car rhetoric that pervades on here. We have no way of knowing that the accident was caused by a nun that was delivering warm milk to orphaned kittens suffered a medical incident after a child (probably a vegetarian one!!!) stepped into the road. 🤷‍♂️