Traffic Jam Lordship Lane today

[leon parker]

Mirash Tandoori has been providing high quality Indian food to East Dulwich and the surrounding area since 1990. New item on the menu is traffic jam pickle.

If you had wait in the traffic jam today along Lordship Lane due to a bus having a scrape with a car your wait was made even longer, both lanes blocked because of two parked cars outside the Mirash Tandoori Resturant. The owners of the cars are both are from the Mirash they park everyday like this. If you had to wait in the cold at a bus stop or late for an appointment you know who to thank for your longer delay. Just to lazy to find a parking space that is not a busy road.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Are the spaces outside Mirash available for parking or not? If so I don?t see what they are doing wrong

If the road needs to be more clear to allow flow of traffic then the council will presumably zone approriately

It?s people who park up in bus lanes that bother me ? not people who park legally

[kford]

They've probably noticed that there are no parking restriction signs on this part of Grove Vale. As long as they stay off the double yellows, they're okay. Any tickets would be invalid for this technicality.

The bigger rush hour parking issues are caused by - as Sean says - people chancing it in the bus lane, including Southwark's 'safety' smartcar. The parking on the corner beyond KwikFit is a problem too - that's often a bottleneck for buses. Usually builders in the cafe, Transit van parked on the single yellow outside.

[Sue]

If the cars from the Mirash are legally parked, then that's a really unfair OP. So what if it's a busy road? If they're allowed to park there, why on earth should they park further away from their place of work?

If illegally parked, then it's irrelevant whether or not they've caused a problem today, they shouldn't be parked there at all.

[Jeremy]

Looking at Streetview, it appears to be a single yellow line...

[kford]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Looking at Streetview, it appears to be a single

> yellow line...

but no signage, so they're invalid

[GinaG3]

Exactly the same thing happened yesterday on Dulwich Common, stand still traffic because a bus driver scraped a car. Police didn't arrive for ages either!

The guy went to wipe the marks on his car then noticed it was just dirt, and still didn't drive on..