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Oh yes, so much that I was in a traffic jam on a 185 this afternoon where it took 20 mins to get from Melbourne Grove to Goose Green.

Has anyone noticed the sudden increase in Lime Bikes parked on Lordship Lane? There are some legal parking spaces that have been added by the council, such as outside the Dulwich Cafe and St Thomas More Church by Dulwich Library, but I saw unused bikes with a full charge left on pavements from Goose Green up to The Grove. One of them was right by the Post Office by the bus stop, which restricted space for pedestrians. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for e-bike rental, but it seems a tad OTT that suddenly Lime are blitzing East Dulwich with bikes in every other street. HumanForest sensibly only dumps bikes in Green Bays where the pavements are wider and not obstructing pedestrians.

There were proposals a few years back to replace the Goose Green Roundabout with a traffic light junction but locals were against it.

I don't know why CPR Dave says that as the rail service from Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park has massively improved since the Overground launched. While Southern is basically being told to cut services by the DfT, TfL managed to maintain services during the pandemic despite the massive loss to their revenue. If you promote a train service as being high frequency such as the Overground and the Elizabeth line, people will use it.

It's 2 trains per hour for most of the day between London Bridge and East Croydon via Selhurst with some additional peak services to and from Beckenham Junction. On Saturday, there's no service to East Croydon with all trains running to Beckenham Junction instead.

Tracked 48 post arrived on time this morning, but no standard post.

Last week one magazine was a day late. I got a ton of post on Tuesday and then nothing since.

There was extra traffic on the roads today due to the rail strike.

There are three versions of fibre. The one that most have is FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) where the fibre cable is connected to a green box in the street with the last part of the journey using the existing copper line. The closer you are to a green box, the faster your connection is. (There is also a faster version of FTTC called GFast where you also plug another converter alongside your existing modem) FTTB - (Fibre to the building) is what is offered in blocks of flats. A junction box is installed on the side of the building with cables running to the individual flats outside which means they have to drill a hole to feed it through. This service is usually offered by the likes of Hyperoptic and Community Fibre in ED. Openreach will also offer this in flats I believe. FTTH - (Fibre to the premises) which is offered by Openreach on behalf of Sky and BT etc and other companies if they've laid their own fibre cable. As mentioned, it goes directly to your home and can be the most complex fibre installation. If you've ever had Virgin installed in your house, they may have to dig up outside your home. How is Full Fibre installed? | BT Help The plan is eventually to scrap ADSL and FTTC, so that every home is connected either by FTTB or FTTP giving customers the fastest possible download speeds. By 2025, the copper telephone network will be scrapped if you're on the Openreach network, which means you'll have to connect your landline phone to a RJ45 port on an internet router. This has the negative impact that when the power goes off, your landline will no longer work during cuts. If you already have Virgin or Hyperoptic/Community Fibre, you're not affected.

Enlighten us with how the counters actually work then?

Regarding buses, one of the reasons why I was against the reduction in the speed limit to 20mph in Southwark is the fact that buses take considerably longer than they did previously from my own personal experience. Factor in the extra traffic that now clogs up East Dulwich Grove and parts of Lordship Lane during the rush hours and school run due to the Dulwich Village LTN and you can see why despite Covid restrictions being removed that buses are having a harder time attracting post Covid passenger use.

From what I can see, the heat issues are largely to the east of LL between Barry Road and Goose Green which don't even have a LTN! The area of the Dulwich Village LTN is largely 1 or 2, so not at risk, while Melbourne Grove is 3.

And the fact is that Dulwich has people who can afford to pay these charges and fines for driving on certain LTN roads. The LTN for example was cheap to organise (using government money to set up) and then see the revenue roll in regardless of the implications for residents on boundary roads or elderly residents inside the LTN who find it harder to reach local services.

It's no surprise that Southwark want to turn Dulwich into the north of the borough where public transport reins supreme by reducing car usage by using the LTN and CPZs to raise revenue out of car owners. Unlike the north of the borough, we don't have a public transport service that residents have in Bermondsey enjoy with the Jubilee line operating every 3 minutes or the regular bus service that residents in Peckham, Camberwell or Walworth Road have, so it's not a surprise that residents still use cars despite the revenue making schemes.

Saturday street parties: Derwent Grove, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 8:30 pm (Whole road) Desenfans Road, Dulwich, 8 am – 9 pm (Whole road) Sunday street parties: Chesterfield Grove, East Dulwich, 10 am – 6 pm (Whole road) Cornflower Terrace, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 5 pm (Whole road) Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 6 pm (Crystal Palace Road intersection with Silvester Road and Underhill Road) Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 11 am – 8:30 pm (From Landcroft Road to Thomson Road) Dovedale Road, East Dulwich, 10:30 am – 8:30 pm (From 2A Dovedale Road to the junction with Mundania Road) Druce Road, Dulwich, 9 am – 8:30 pm (Whole road) Dunstans Road, East Dulwich, 9 am – 8:30 pm (Between Crebor Street and Goodrich Road) Dunstan’s Grove, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 8:30 pm (Whole road) Goodrich Road, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 6 pm (From Landcroft Road to Crystal Palace Road) Henslowe Road, East Dulwich, 2 pm – 8:30 pm (From 1-45 Henslowe Road) Landells Road, East Dulwich, 11 am – 8 pm (Between Sylvester Road to Crystal Palace Road) Pickwick Road, Dulwich, 7 am – 8:30 pm (From Dulwich Village to Turney Road) St Aidans Road, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 7 pm (From the top junction with Underhill Road to the Herne Tavern) Upland Road, East Dulwich, 12 pm – 8:30 pm (From 115-145 Upland Road)

Once again, this thread has been overtaken by gender critical activists with no moderation. I'm out....

Can you two continue this crap over on Mumsnet. It's more in tune with your transphobic viewpoint than on a local forum you're once again trying to overtake with hateful nonsense.

And here's the other one. "I'm not transphobic, but...."

Alexander, have you got anything constructive to say about the protest or are you going to keep on posting irrelevant GC propaganda? From reports, there were at least 80 Turning Point protesters who were allowed by the Met to stand across the road from the pub, while they were around 500 pro drag protesters, including Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft who apparently attended today as well. It's nice to know that not all Labour MPs aren't all like Rosie Duffield.

The usual suspects back whenever there's a drag protest on here.

We have the best of both worlds now. There's still DKH Sainsbury's which introduced Argos a few years back which has made it still attractive to visit even if they've axed the food counters, while LL has a diverse range of shops from Poundland to Moxons with Caffe Nero, M&S, Superdrug and the Co-op somewhere in the middle.

I remember the fears of local stores at the Dulwich Library end of LL when Sainsbury's Local opened. They're still there including the florist and Red Apple Newsagents which has found a niche in selling Irish newspapers and is still well used among locals. When DKH Sainsbury's opened in 1994, it was a different time and people flocked there because of the convenience of having a large store with everything in one place, but times changed and LL was able to find a new niche of independent stores and the likes of M&S Foodhall which complements rather than compete with Sainsbury's. There are high streets still struggling, but LL isn't one of them.

Lloyds used to be really good at preparing repeat prescriptions straight away, but since a change in staff they only do it when you turn up and sometimes that means they won't order it until you turn up and then have to return again another day. Not helped that on some days, they close at 3pm still if the pharmacist has to pick up their kids from school and can't find cover.

What we really need is the Post Office to have more banking options so that previous Barclays customers can use it as they did with the old bank. While I miss the bank, I'd rather see Wagamama in there than it being left empty for years.