CPR Dave

Except that on this very website we have people boasting about the millions of pounds of revenue that the council raise from criminals using cars. We should raise more from the cyclists who break the law too.

I'm amazed we still need food banks and not for profits. I thought we elected a labour government in 2024 to end all that stuff and make everyone rich.

Seeing more and more cyclists in London rampaging down the footpath and stealing phones out of people's hands. It's shameful and something needs to be done. Licensing cyclists would mean we would be able identify those of them menacing innocent people and robbing their phones.

That looks spectacular! I would be reluctant to share that if i was lucky enough to live there!

Need them to raise money to pay for the corrected road signs no doubt.

Are they asking people to book collections? I dont have a brown bin.

Licencing cyclists is a good idea so they can be fined for running red lights in the same way other road users are.

It's Croxted Road?

I'd just empty it into the green bin at this point.

Why can’t the cyclists just take some responsibility for themselves for once?

We didn’t have to contact the council. they took our tree out of our garden and put it in the road themselves for collection.

A different way to resolve these issues would be to decriminalise pre-emptive action taken against law breaking cyclists. If it was entirely legal to knock a cyclist off their bike when they run a red light, using whatever you have to hand, they might start to think twice about going through a green man when families are crossing with their children. I'm thinking particularly of the repeat offenders going through the EDR / CPR crossroads when people are trying to get to and from school.

Even if the numbers are correct, there is a huge problem with the schemes if three or four people are driving past the signs every school day in what is, effectively, a 90 minute restriction.

Agree, most people want trees. Just not problematic ones.

The freedom passes might be an annual fee compared to a monthly fee for the bins tbf. We do seem to be paying 800k very month for cross rail though. So that's Boris Johnson's fault too then ? Even more irritating!!!!

Thanks for posting that Earl. Some of the (monthly!) expenditure is shocking. E.g. GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY £808,078.00 GLA CROSSRAIL BUSINESS RATE SUPPLEMENT What benefit do we get from spending £800k a month on Crossrail FFS??? Also £2.6m on Freedom Passes - EDIT - THIS SEEMS TO BE ANNUAL NOT MONTHLY These are things the Mayor came up with. He should pay them out of his budget, not charge our council for them. DELETED.

Earl I don't think your maths is correct. My local school is open for 204 days a year. If the schools are all the same, then its 26,000 PCNs / 24 Schools = 1083 PCNs per school. That works out at 5.3 PCNs per school per day.

I'm in favour of school streets. I wished they worked though. 26,000 driving through the school streets and receiving penalty notices suggests that something has gone terribly wrong.

We left ours in our fown front garden on 5th Jan, not blocking anyone. The council workers moved it from there onto the street on bin day. They then collected it the next day. The council make a profit by composting or chipping our gifted tree and selling that on.

Their menu says coffee is £5.30 and tea is £4.50 https://vietflavours.com/menu/ Tea for two at £7 instead of 2 x £4.50 seems fair?

Just a note of caution for you Nigello - trees planted too close to houses can cause terrible problems with subsidence.

Some poor person's car was buried under it last year! I think I'd have just abandoned that if it was mine and started again with a new vehicle.

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I saw this pair outside Leyland on New Year's Day.

To me it looks like those are purposely designed to catch people out.