Fine for enterting no entry zone in Peckham (Lounged)

[lozzyloz]

F@*k that! Problem solved . . .

[Marmora Man]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> F@*k that! Problem solved . . .

>

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?5

> ,file=828

Looks like Ken's nuclear free London just went for a burton.

[Sue]

Thanks for making me laugh guys when I'm moping around with a streaming cold :))

[Oglandia]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> stb... glad we made up after the recent street

> fight

>

> I'm not saying I don't drop litter, speed or drive

> the wrong way down one way streets. but I am

> saying if I did I wouldn't claim immunity if

> caught. and I wouldn't go on a public discussion

> board to state a claim for some imagined

> victimhood.

>

> don't get me wrong... anyone is within their

> rights to do so. but why would they?

conversely, why surf a public discussion board for whinge threads when you are avowedly against e-whingeing, then choose to read the whinge threads ... and then go on to whinge about the whingeing? Now I'm whingeing about your whingeing about the whingeing.

But I love the whinge threads, that's why I'm posting here. If you really don't Sean, try not reading them and post elsewhere.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Oglandia

Amazingly enough, I don't go looking for whinge threads. I've been surfing THIS public discussion board for over a year and do so largely because of the number of intelligent people on here and the amusement that they generate. It's possibly true that a trend over the last year is for more people to whinge but there is certainly no reason why a debate on parking etc has to be " a whinge thread" - it could be a genuinely informative and intelligently debated discussion. And it is something that affects us all

Whinging for it's own sake mught be amusing to some but it achieves nothing positive and creates a climate of negativity.

If the board became overwhelmed with that type of attitide then you are probably right - I'd be better off elsewhere. That hasn't happened yet tho

[Oglandia]

there's room for everything here - I'm sure we agree on that Sean. Let's not set the bar too high for forum discussion. Even on the non-lounge threads we are ultimately talking about e-hot air from people (me included) who should be out and about instead of noodling in front of a screen

apart from the empathic belly laughs seanmlow gave me over his Cigar-gate bust, this latest Meldrew adventure (Which again I wholly relate to) has yielded the hilarious photoshopped Rye Lane pictures ... which have an added piquancy as we moved up to Macclesfield last week.

Oglandia no more.

Sorry - back to the topic someone

[SeanMacGabhann]

the photo-shopped Rye lane pictures were some of the funniest things I saw this week - great stuff

Macclesfield eh? Bit of a move that one (oops that's not really bringing things back on topic)

[david_carnell]

Maybe a set of retractable bollards would be the answer.

[Sandperson]

OMG not the reintroduction of the retractable bollard. Didn't they spend millions on these things on Rye Lane then they stopped working within hours? As far as the comments go about reducing street signage there was a Radio 4 programme about it last year. I think they experimented in Norway and the Mayor of the town who introduced the idea took the journo out in a car, stopped in the middle of the high street, got out and proceeded to walk backwards into oncoming traffic to show how saftey had improved.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The retractable bollard scheme in Peckham was discontinued because a car was impaled on Blenheim Grove in much the same manner as the Youtube extract above. Seems to me that makes it a success.

[Andyng]

Why go through it then moan on here when your fined are you surprised?

[david_carnell]

BTW, the practise of removing street furniture and/or traffic signs is known as Shared Space. It has been trialled to a degree in the UK as you can see from this article.

I used to work in a transport planning office (although it specialised in cyclists) so can appreciate the conflicting needs of different users when designing a junction. In this case the signage and road markings appear fairly adequate. There would have been post-implementation research done into its effectiveness and I'm guessing its well respected in the main.

Loving the forum's own re-designs though!! :))

[jocelyn]

Paid my fine today - that was a pricey car journey! So can anyone explain to me where that road by the Nags Head that you are supposed to go down actually goes? Just not that familiar with Peckham! I am a bit scared to go down that way again unless I know exactly where I am going!

[Carrie]

You need to go past the pub onto Copeland Road - take the first right after the zebra crossing then the first right again and at the end of that road you join Heaton Road and approach the traffic lights from the other direction - basically you just have to drive round in a small circle!

[macroban]

> a small circle!

???

More like an extra kilometer.

Southwark goes greener, cleaner, etc...

[Sue]

I haven't driven down that way for a while, but from memory it's all very well signposted, think you'd be unlikely to get lost, Jocelyn :)

[mikese22]

jocelyn Wrote:

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> Paid my fine today - that was a pricey car

> journey! So can anyone explain to me where that

> road by the Nags Head that you are supposed to go

> down actually goes? Just not that familiar with

> Peckham! I am a bit scared to go down that way

> again unless I know exactly where I am going!

make sure your doors are locked and put your foot down if anyone dodgy looking approaches the car - I'm sure you'll be ok!

[Sue]

mikese22 Wrote:

> make sure your doors are locked and put your foot

> down if anyone dodgy looking approaches the car -

> I'm sure you'll be ok!

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Erm, doesn't that apply to when you're driving anywhere ??

:)

[Oglandia]

a final whinge from me (so 'Whinga Hatas' please look the other way) if you pay your fine at the Council's risibly named "Parking Shop" on Old Kent Road there is no damn place to park. Anyone been booked while paying a fine? To quote Ian Curtis (whose old house I can see as I type) "Where will it end?"

[BJL]

Maybe there could simply be a general "whinge" thread in the Lounge? Then anyone who wanted to complain about their parking tickets, fines for illegal driving/littering/fare dodging/keeping library books too long etc could find some relief there.

[pk]

Oglandia Wrote:

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> a final whinge from me (so 'Whinga Hatas' please

> look the other way) if you pay your fine at the

> Council's risibly named "Parking Shop" on Old Kent

> Road there is no damn place to park. Anyone been

> booked while paying a fine? To quote Ian Curtis

> (whose old house I can see as I type) "Where will

> it end?"

"where will it end?" we're only talking about small penalties for minor traffic offences here

[jocelyn]

Thanks for the advice people.

I've gone back to the "crime scene" and checked it all out so shouldn't make the same mistake again now.

[JohnL]

I love a good whinge so :) ..

Whinge start

living in the Peckham Co-op (as the utilities call us) I go around that one way system every time I go out. Worse are deliveries mind - None of them know where to park and so they all park on the double yellow there .. and whinge at me when they get a fine.

Whinge over.

BJL Wrote:

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> Maybe there could simply be a general "whinge"

> thread in the Lounge? Then anyone who wanted to

> complain about their parking tickets, fines for

> illegal driving/littering/fare dodging/keeping

> library books too long etc could find some relief

> there.

[lard]

I got done at exactly the same spot, had to pay the fine today - and on the photo of mine there is someone else following me.

The girl on the fine payment line seemed to know all about it - saying I needed to turn at Barclays.

It must make them a fortune.

[zephyr]

Interesting fine related article (though about parking) on the BBC