skidmarks

So what happened anyone know? Did he actually look like this? http://www.humanforsale.com/images/werewolf.jpg

Oh Christ, sticky tables and no atmosphere apart from the ambient background din of the glass washer and chillers plus the old man at the bar counting through his pennies to calculate how many ?1.99 pints he can have before his heart stops. Why do they insist on covering the tables with so many dirty and sticky laminated menus and price lists! I?d rather cut my balls off with a rusty saw than go in any Tescospoons.

Ooh Curry Cabin. The first place I ever ate on Lordship Lane. I am tempted to come along. I had some lovely grilled fish dish last time and my mate had some creamy type curry which he chucked up all over my bathroom at 4am. I do not put this down to lack of hygiene at the Cabin but down to the 8 pints of cider he had at EDT beforehand.

My ex dropped hers in the bath. I took it to a shop in West Kensington and they fixed it in a week for ?45. Can give you the details...if they are still there it was a couple of years ago.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's an interesting idea. Some schemes have gone > further in Europe...removing lights, signs and > even pavements with interesting results (i.e > safer). > > As a general issue - I think more needs to be done > to improve driving skills anyway, the test needs > to be longer and I would favour retesting, say > every 10 years as well. Yes, the Ashford ringroad has just had this type of thing implemented to it. I was watching some videos of it recently. Pedestrians and vulnerable road users are still being dominated by vehicular traffic when they have equal priority. Attitudes are different here to Europe?except maybe Paris.

I was just thinking of an example of a road in Sussex I worked on. It had a 30mph speed limit but the 85%ile speed was way over 40. There wasn?t any money to install physical traffic calming, so we removed the centre line of the road making the road look much narrower. When drivers don?t have that demarcation of a centre line indicating their space they tend to slow down. Think about how you drive on a wide county lane. I think this would be a cheap option to test on Barry Road to reduce speed. You can see it here. You can just see the old centre marking. It changes the whole environment/feel of the road through the village http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=forest+row&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.304449,39.331055&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Forest+Row,+East+Sussex,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.096124,0.052797&spn=0,0.009602&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.093971,0.051398&panoid=DR7w1e8u2mDMXDVnl0Z8vg&cbp=12,92.52,,0,25.11

Road safety is a reactive process. Money only comes available when people are actually getting hurt (not damage only accidents). With a fatal accident costing in the region of ?1M to the economy you will get a good cost benefit ratio from doing works to a problem site. You would not throw money at road if there was not a recorded accident problem would you? Sites that have a perceived problem, where people are saying?it is an accident waiting to happen?. are usually quite safe as drivers reactive differently and cautiously. I do not think there will be an issue with double yellow lines. Just don?t go for a mirror. It will take one person to rely solely on the mirror and cause some hideous accident. Remove the guard railings and car parking and make sure driver and riders can make eye contact with each other

Double yellow lines are not as simple as they sound. It is a democratic process, the traffic orders have to be advertised for a minimum of 6 weeks, which allows people to object which can lengthen the process by months. The final decision is made at the relevant council committee meeting. Past experience has shown that residents object to loss of on-street parking. Look up the thread about parking loss on Goose Green for an example. It takes a brave councillor to ignore lots of objections.

Applespider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > skidmarks Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > A highway authority would never install a > mirror. > > Not always true. TFL has recently installed > mirrors at lights along the new cycle > superhighways to help the drivers of large > vehicles see if a cyclist has (stupidly) come up > alongside and is in their blind spot. Perhaps I should have said in this situation. I was doing a safety audit on a road up in Havering where there had been a fatal accident, I took the attached photo of a convex mirror installed by an owner of a private airfield for allow drivers to see around a corner as there was a high hedge. Would you want to trust your life on this? A mirror is a really poor option, everything should be done to provide a clear forward visibility of at least 60m on this type of road.

A highway authority would never install a mirror. All the ones you see are privately owned and installed. To rely on a mirror raises all sorts of issues in terms of safety such as if its knocked out of alignment, dirty, if there is sun glare, if its dark and it is near enough impossible to see cyclists or motorcyclists in them. As you say everything should be done to improve sightlines by removing obstructions. Southwark could undertake a pedestrian guardrail risk assessment and it is my opinion that the benefits of the railings are undone by the obstructed sightlines.

A contact at Transport for London has told me that Borris has declared there will be no new traffic signals in London, this includes pedestrian crossings so that will rule this out for this junction. The simplest way to sort the issues is double yellow lines to prevent parking in the sight lines; ?5,000 for the traffic orders advertising and sealing and ?750 implementation, hopefully non of the residents will object to the loss parking.. A mini-roundabout could be considered as that would change the priorities but are pretty dangerous for cyclists.

Arf Bus drivers. Pretend you're an airline pilot by wedging your accelerator pedal down with a heavy book, securing the steering wheel with some old rope, and then strolling back along the bus chatting casually to the passengers.

It is like reading a copy of the Viz! One of my favourites is: Recreate the fun of a visit to a public swimming pool in your own home by filling the bath with cold water, adding two bottles of bleach, then urinating into it, before jumping in. All found here http://www.fishtank.org.uk/humour/humour.php3?articleid=61

The government has cut the road safety budget by ?38 million this year, so unless there is a really significant injury accident not just broken headlights, dented body work and damaged egos I would not expect anything to happen at this junction in the near future.

Don?t waste your money on an Ipad just hold your Iphone closer to your face

The Dean Swift off Tower Bridge Road. It was great how it was, always busy and the reason everyone piled in there was because they didn?t do food. You could guarantee getting served quickly as no one was fannying around with menus and paying by card. It had great big tables you could get two or three groups around chatting now replaced with smaller ones so they can do more ?covers? I suppose. Anything served on a chopping board is going to be pretentious in my book! Oh it?s a lot quieter nowadays?food won?t last long they were hoping to get passing tourist trade?..they won?t and so far don?t.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quite so Brendan. > > I'm with Southern Electric and last year my bill > went from ?39 a month to ?205 a month. I went four > months before I noticed how much my bank account > was haemorrhaging. I got a new metre and they > started charging me ?60 a month. According to my > latest bill I now owe another ?400 and they want > ?134 a month. This I feel can't be right as I live > in a one-bedroomed flat FFS! Thieving bloody bar > stewards! F#ck me. How much! Is your flat powering the Large Hadron Collider in France or something!?

Your favourite pub, a proper drinker (i.e. no food) closing for 3 months. Then reopening, painted white and describing itself as a ?local beer house?. What a pub??! To top it all off it now sells food including overpriced pretentious burgers served on a bloody wooden chopping board. Tossers!

I?ve just been fisted by EDF. They?ve put my electricity direct debit to ?65 a month. ?780 a year for a 1 bedroom modern flat and only me living there, I?m hardly ever there. I?m on economy 7 tariff and my water heater comes on at cheap rate for 2 hours a night and that is it. Time to switch

Smiler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Friends of friends / friends of friends' friends? > > > Though may be insulted by friends' ideas of people > who are suitable for you! Yeah very true. It was suggested I should meet this girl who was a friend of a lady friend, I met her years beforehand and at that time given her the moniker, Bovine Girl. I was not impressed and far too busy.

40 thank Christ! Still got 6 years and 3 months! I?ve been single for 1 year in the last 10 but better not stop trying as 40 will be here before I know it.

1. What is the age a single female reaches when she must admit to herself that she has missed all the good men as they are all now married? 2. And at what age should a single man admit to himself that he is single for a reason?

daizie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have been an on-line dating expert and apart > from providing me with a lot of amusement and > entertainment these blokes are single for very > good reason and I have come to the conclusion that > some people really should be on their own . On the other hand from the recent experience I have had, I found a majority of the ladies are serial daters on the hunt for his elusive bloke who will match their expectations perfectly and therefore the 9 out of 10 times when he doesn?t they are always disappointed?. but the grass is always greener as they say.

expat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > she killed somebody and got a two-year driving > ban, a two-year community order and sentenced to > 200 hours unpaid work. He had less rights he hadn't paid VED opps I mean road tax

Louisa, I?m not anti anything. I have a car and I design roads for a living so have a vested interest, you could say. However, I am not of the outdated school of thought of the 1950?s and 1960?s. Urban roads are owned by the community that live beside them and there to transport people in whatever form of transport they use be it car, bike, bus. When I said sever I meant as in division of communities. I guess you?ve never seen while driving signs saying 'Bypass us now' or read in the Daily Mail about some little village on the A30 moaning about how they can never cross the road owing to the number of vehicles driving through their community to go somewhere else. I have lost count on the number of 1960?s subways we have filled in now as a company as no one wants to use them. Good news though once less cyclist to slow you down on your oh so important journey. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/10404620.stm