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The Crawthew Grove crossing - I just don't see the benefit, when there's the zebra crossings on the roundabout a few yards down. But I can see the danger as outlined by Kford. All in all the crossing there strikes me as a bad idea. @JamesBarber: I think you've misinterpreted my earlier comment. I'm with Loz. I don't think I've ever managed to get up to dizzying speeds like 20mph on LL. That is of course because I'm driving on LL on a Saturday morning back from Sainsbury's and the world and it's dog is out and about. No doubt at 4am, I could get up a good lick in the olde jalope. Of course, even if I were to be about and about at 4am on Monday and find the lane free of obstacles, I'd still be inclined to keep to a reasonable speed that would, for example, allow me to break and not collide with another vehicle exiting an abutting road hidden by parked vans etc. Were I the kind of chap who wanted to do 40MPH down LL, I doubt a 20MPH limit would stop me. Is that why studies show that introducing 20MPH zones reduces average speed* by 1.3MPH? A study in Portsmouth I think showed that city wide introduction of 20MPH zones reduced casualties by 8% per year, but increased fatalities (by 1 - not %, actual number, i.e. had no real effect). Have a butcher's. *Average speed. Mean, mode, median? By day, by part of the day? Who knows? Who cares?

I found the plans. It wasn't easy. It's like Southwark are trying to hide them. Still can't find them on the website. Found on James Barber's blog/site here Personally I welcome the crossing outside the co-op, but I can't see the need for a second one a few meters down the road at the junction of East Dulwich Grove and LL. Perhaps I'm missing the point.

I'd love the opportunity to drive down Lordship Lane going as fast as 20MPH. I also couldn't find the proposals on the website - could someone post the link?

There's an Early Day Motion in Parliament this Thursday regarding revised EU rules and regs on fishing. The EDM asks the Govt. not to sign it off without something in it about bycatch and discards. You can read the EDM here. It's the second most signed EDM ever, apparently, though Tessa Jowel hasn't signed it. On the page here, there's a template you can use if you want to email her to ask her to vote with the EDM.

Thanks James. But you can't know that the 2 in 10 or so cars that are there all day aren't just those of residents who don't use their car everyday. I suppose that's the 'gut feel' part. May as well have just asked Hugenot and allowed the council contractors to be getting on with whatever we're paying them to do; unencumbered by having to speculate on people's parking habits.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >numpties arrive at 7am, park the car, and don't come back until 7pm. > Ahhh, so that's you standing there on a randomly sampled set of days large enough to give a representative data set, carefully recording the licence plates parked, noting their arrival and departure times and looking up the DVLA and insurance databases to cross match the data with the reported location at which the vehicles are kept. Very good work there.

Quite possibly, somewhere, at sometime, someone is going to stand in front of a bunch of people and present the results of this survey and those people are going to decide where they spend money and where they cut back based on those results. As a research exercise it's poorly designed, but it's easy to see how the results could steer funding decisions. In any event, it's what they're doing. Probably because someone - who's well aware that the effort is less than ideal - is doing the best they can, with the time, skills and budget that's at their disposal. I've filled it in, and would encourage you to so so too.

It's a proposal, it seems, and if you want to object to it you can email [email protected] quoting reference PR/ND/RDH/TMO1011-037 but you need to email them by 24th March (Thursday). As regards Huguenot's points above ... I'm reminded of what happened at Brockwell Park recently. There, a very broad bunch of folks comprising the park using public, local residents, the anti-car lobby, the pro-cyclist lobby, opposition councillors and some people who really did genuinely have phds in traffic management (no, really), tried to stop the changes in the road layout at the corner of the park at Dulwich Road, Herne Hill and Norwood Road. Everyone said it was a bad idea. Except the councillors who had proposed it. Even their own internal investigation couldn't find anything that actually supported the plans. Didn't stop the council cracking on though. It would be nice to believe that our elected representatives only ever act in our best interests, objectively and intelligently, benevolently. Nice, but naive. Sometimes they just have a really bad idea that they get hell bent on executing.

@bloonoo: really sorry to hear about the break in. For anyone interested, have a look at this ... External hard drive, 1TB, and under ?50. I've got one and it's fab. As I think another poster mentions, when not in use unplug it, hide it!

I don't know what dust men get paid nowadays. Now, my old man's a dustman, really, but it would be rude to ask him and anyway he retired well over a decade ago. So outlandish assumption, if you know better, please correct, let's say ?10/hour (?18,200/year - seems a lot). So at ?10/hour ... ?700,000 deficit, for clarity let's call it debt ... means we (because it was us) have paid for the equivalent of 70,000 hours of work. Or 2,000 working weeks. Or 38 and a half years. Full time. No holidays. Someone, should be in prison. Or did my terrible maths mean they should just get a ticking off.

James, you say North Cross Road is making a surplus - but East Street market ... is making a loss. Hence why the drastic changes proposed to boost revenue to NCR to subsidise East Street market and stabalise the ... ?700k ... deficit." Other than a dustcart to sweep up afterwards, and a bit of electricity, what are the costs to the council of running a street market? My mind boggles as to how that 'account' can be ?700k in the red. That's a lot of sweeping up. Or have I misunderstood?

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As Twirly points out, it's chicken and > egg - you don't shop there, they reduce their > stock in response, and so it goes. ------------------------------------------------------- People who go in early find they have loads of stuff. People who go in later are saying they have nothing left. So it would seems to be a stock control / management problem rather than a deliberate reduction in stock levels to account for fewer people shopping there. There's plenty of people shopping, just not buying as they can find neither chicken nor egg.

aprayerforowenmeany Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James. The results of a question posted in this > forum can hardly be hardly be held up as > representative of the wider community. I see in > the news this morning that Waitrose plan to open > 37 more stores this year. Do you know more than > you are letting on? There are thousands of people > in the area who probably aren't even aware of this > forums existence. What about their opinion? ----------------------------------------------------------- I agree with what aprayerforowenmeany said.

In defense of the co-op, maybe the prices there are a bit higher because their ethical stance means they pay reasonable rates to their suppliers and try to avoid being thoroughly despicable in their buying practices.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Waitrose/M&S is just the next step to turning ED > into a shite hole. I suppose it's predictable > that it's part of the progression, just look at > other areas that stepped through the same > sequence. --------------------------------------------------------- Yeah - such as Brixton, Lewisham and the Walworth Road - just looks what's happened to those places since M&S moved in.

I'd love to see the market open on Sundays, especially a farmer's market. The one over in Brixton, also on Sundays, is great and seems to do very well.

Please can we have a Poundland instead.

I hope it's true too. Save me going to Brixton.

Sounds like Fridays are a bit quiet for trading, but I don;t think that's an indication of what might hpeen on Sundays. Wouldn't there be a lot of people in the area on Sundays who aren't around on Friday, or any other day in the week, being at work etc?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bonaome Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > For what it's worth, I'm not in a connecting > road > > (I'm 1 road removed), I'm pro extension and pro > > Sunday market trading. I'd also be pro > > pedestrianisation, were that to be a > > consideration. > > No Problem. When I cannot park in my road, I'll > park in your's. > > Will that sort the problem ??? It's already impossible to park in our road on Saturday DulwichFox. It's extremely difficult on a Friday. I'd guess if the market expands and more people have stalls on Sunday, it'll be very difficult or impossible to park in our road on a Sunday too. So I wouldn't bother trying to park in our road, really.

The survey doesn't ask where respondents live. Shame as it might otherwise have been used to gauge the feeling of those living on NCR and connecting streets regarding issues like parking and Sunday trading. There's also nothing to stop anyone form filling it in a million times - so anyone who feels very strongly, get clicking! For what it's worth, I'm not in a connecting road (I'm 1 road removed), I'm pro extension and pro Sunday market trading. I'd also be pro pedestrianisation, were that to be a consideration.

Yes. If you're trying to get Internet through a t-mobile USB dongle (or an Orange dongle), you're relying on the very same masts that are out/being reconfigured to share the t-mobile/Orange traffic. Thread.

Their admission criteria for 2011/12 are here.

Morning Peak (before 9.30am): ?1.20 - One bus to Peckham Rye ?2.10 - Overland from Peckham Rye to London Blackfriars Afternoon Peak (after 5.30pm but before 7.00pm) ?2.10 - Overland from London Blackfriars to Peckham Rye ?1.20 - One bus from Peckham Rye So you'd pay ?3.30 each way, ?6.60 daily charge, ?33 for a week. So you are better off with a ?25.80 travelcard. If you're going to cycle there and back at least twice per week (i.e. four single trips/two return journeys) you'd be better off PAYG than weekly card, but that's assuming you never use the bus/train at the weekend and never use the tube in the week etc. The daily peak time cap is ?7.20 - so you wouldn't get capped, and wouldn't want to be. It does mean that if you are on PAYG and you do take an extra tube or whatever, any extra travel is only going to cost you the extra 60p up to the cap price. Clear as mud? Hope helpful.

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