Penguin68

Really, and if these people do ever turn up are you going to see them to confirm that? And can I watch?

First thing this morning (8.00am) traffic lights were installed at the junction of Wood Vale and Langton Rise - and switched on. A section of road in Wood Vale was coned off. So far (13.30) there has not been any sign of any workmen doing anything. By all means install the lights in advance, if that works best for you, but don't switch them on, or cone off a section of road, until workmen arrive. Unless you really really couldn't care less for the taxpayers who are paying your wages - oh, but of course, you don't - Southwark or Lewisham (the works are on the border) apparat, do you?

But I can't imagine they would have undertaken all this work, with whatever the cost is and certainly the disruption locally if TfL had not now agreed the light phasing - even if it took them a ridiculous time to do so. So not switching it on is just offensive, and if there is a fatal accident now before it's switched on then TfL should be charged with corporate manslaughter, if it can be shown the delay was at their end.

You could make apple juice from eating apples, it would be very sweet, but for cider you need cider apples which are very different.

When I started this thread in February the works were scheduled to last, quite ridiculously, to mid June, it is now the end of July and they are still not complete, even though there has been no work at all for weeks apart from some overnight tarmacing and line painting on the 25th July. The 'emergency' lights are still working, the replacement lights still covered and the safety light work to improve pedestrian crossing still not switched on. What a complete shower those responsible, and I use that word quite wrongly, are. Actually the junction seems to be working, broadly, OK, so why the hell can't they finish it? Until they do it's still a hazard.

I'm guessing it's an edit of the two news stories about Southwark roadworks overall I posted on another thread. Just picking up helpfully the ED roads.

As Occado source from Waitrose, and were their only deliverer at one stage, and as Waitrose do now deliver it may be they feel their reach in ED is sufficient to mean having a local outlet would not gain them sufficient additional sales to be cost effective. The movement to delivery rather than physical shopping during Covid has I believe substantially changed the grocery economics. So it may be that the High Street dynamic for physical shops has now changed.

I believe the key issue is the available size of shops. Waitrose, unlike M&S does not, I believe, have a small outlet offering which could be shoehorned into LL except in one or two spots.

I think you need to indicate primary and secondary needs to get useful recommendations, and sex of children since two local academies are single sex.

Maybe if you indicated what you were reviewing, pub, gastro pub, high-end gourmet, local Italian etc. - whatever classifications you wanted, then you need only indicate that your stars referred to overall quality in that category. So it it's pub grub then 5 stars means it's great pub grub, but not the same experience as 5 stars in a high end gourmet category. Your star system could then include implicitly value for money as well.

https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/community/drivers-face-a-total-of-30-road-closures-over-the-summer-when-driving-through-southwark/ https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/southwark-road-closures-including-tfl-32106269 So let's hear it from the 'nothing to see here' Southwark Council cheerleaders then

It wouldn't just have to be in an LTN, but anywhere where the natural route for assistance would have gone through an LTN where the road was actually blocked off by planters etc.

There is no evidence that I can see that anyone on these boards is employed by, or advocates for, the oil and gas industries. You are conflating someone who cares for those who are owners and users of private cars, however powered, and inter alia deplores misuse of the roads by cyclists who break normal road rules, with a complete different sort of industry advocate. Some, but not all, private cars use fossil fuels, certainly, as many use steel, and plastics, and leather. You may as well accuse your opponents of being advocates for big steel, or big engineering, as advocates for fossil fuels. You just hope to gain sympathy for your own advocacy by associating your opponents with what you believe will be a dog whistle cause which will help praise your position.

But a larger number, in a more hotly contested election, didn't. It is an anomaly that Starmer won a landslide in seats with a turnout for Labour which would have shamed Labour leaders in all the 21st and much of the post war 20th century.

It is not Labour Party members who elect Labour governments, as it certainly isn't Conservative Party members who elect Conservative ones. It is all those who are not party members who actually make up the sufficient numbers to elect governments.