former East Dulwich councillor - how can I help?

[fredricketts]

Hi James,

It's the 2nd accident that I have seen in the

last three weeks, and numerouse other times over the

past ten years, it won't be long befor there is a fatality

there.

And that is at the junction of colewel Road and

Lordship Lane and Pellat Road. Perhaps you could persuade

the council to make Colewel and Pellat road into one ways

from lordship lane.It wil stop all the accidents

on that dangerous bend.

[Townleygreen]

fazer,

how are trolleybuses an improvement on normal buses? They will be as slow/fast as they are, because if there's a a jam then they stop.

Trams are on rails which are nearly always separate from cars. So don't get delayed. This is my experience with the Croydon tramlink.

Please explain.

[fazer71]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> fazer,

> how are trolleybuses an improvement on normal

> buses? They will be as slow/fast as they are,

> because if there's a a jam then they stop.

> Trams are on rails which are nearly always

> separate from cars. So don't get delayed. This is

> my experience with the Croydon tramlink.

> Please explain.

They can run on track and road so the best of both worlds allowing them to switch between the two where land is available.

Trams are 100 % stuck on expensive track.

Tram systems like the one in Croydon are upto 10x more expensive over their life time.

If a tram breaks down then the line is stuck.

If a trolleybus breaks down it can be towed away.

Cost and enviro benefits... I've used Trolleybuses in numerous cities in France Switzerland Germany and Hungary and they work very well. The technology is already in Europe for combined diesel electric Trolleybuses which offer a very flexible cost efficient transport solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

And

http://www.tbus.org.uk/article.htm

James Barber Wrote:

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> Hi Fazer71,

> Trolleybuses are buses powered by electricity.

> They have the cost structure of buses & trams but

> without the mechanical efficiency of riding along

> tracks.

James

So much for the mechanical efficiency of riding on at track a tram could never get up Barry road. !

Do you believe the Trolleybuses cost as much as trams+diesel buses?

Because they only cost a little more than diesel busses but are cheaper in the long term as they are cheper to run and have a lifespan of 30 years.

[the-e-dealer]

I'm sure trams did run on Barry road

[Townleygreen]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> fazer,

> how are trolleybuses an improvement on normal

> buses? They will be as slow/fast as they are,

> because if there's a a jam then they stop.

> Trams are on rails which are nearly always

> separate from cars. So don't get delayed. This is

> my experience with the Croydon tramlink.

> Please explain.

Fazer replied:

They can run on track and road so the best of both worlds allowing them to switch between the two where land is available.

Trams are 100 % stuck on expensive track.

Tram systems like the one in Croydon are upto 10x more expensive over their life time.

If a tram breaks down then the line is stuck.

If a trolleybus breaks down it can be towed away.

Cost and enviro benefits... I've used Trolleybuses in numerous cities in France Switzerland Germany and Hungary and they work very well. The technology is already in Europe for combined diesel electric Trolleybuses which offer a very flexible cost efficient transport solution.

[en.wikipedia.org]

And

[www.tbus.org.uk]

Thanks, fazer those documents are very interesting. I had the idea that Trolleybuses were outdated technology that died out in the early 60s. Clearly they are viable forms of urban transport.

TG

[James Barber]

Hi Fazer71, TG,

Hmmm let's continue this as pm's please.

Trams used to run up and down Dog Kennel Hill. So they can cope with steep hills.

My understanding is if a tram link is blocked they divert across and alternate over the remaining single tram track until the blockage is cleared - this enables everything from emergency road works to broken down vehicles blocking the line.

I don't see any evidence that first work countries are moving to trolley buses. As for the price of tracking my understanding is it can be done for significantly less that TfL have costed.

[fazer71]

James

PM sent.

On another point there have been road works and yet another contra flow with light installed at the junction with Townley rd and Lordship lane.

All that equipment and disruption for a 1ft sq hole in road!

WHY?

For

A hole which could have easily been covered with a thick steel plate with nonslip top for months if required until the resurfacing team were available to tarmac around it!!!

All that disruption and potential danger where a simple common sense solution would have done the job!!!!!

Any where else in the world would have just used a Steel plate!

Insanity in the UK?

A bit like installing a Tram when a Trolleybus system would be cheaper and better.

[Townleygreen]

Careful, fazer, you are sounding a bit obsessive now.

[OliviaDee]

hi James,

I take it Fusion didn't respond to you?

With thanks

Olivia

[James Barber]

Hi OliviaDee,

Not yet but they have been working on it.

Hi Fazer71,

I'm asking about anti skid covered steel plates covering road works when things not happening. Great example where this would help junction of Denmark Hill with Daneville Road.

[curlykaren]

Hi Mr Barber, Just to inform you that Southwark Parking Enforcement are giving out parking tickets which offer a 50% discount if paid in 14 days, calculated as ?60 on an ?80 ticket. I wonder if many people have paid this in error and conversly how much revenue will be lost by these tickets being issued with such a glaring error. leaving them, rightfully, open to challenge.

[James Barber]

Hi curlykaren,

That sounds remarkably silly.

I'll check with the had of parknig enforcement and come back to you.

[James Barber]

Hi curlykaren,

I've had a response already.

The discount is ?40 and ?65 depending on what the offence orginally committed was.

If you provide more details - ideally email me - I'll get the detail of what you've suggested investigated.

[the-e-dealer]

What's the 80 fine for ? Can't see an 80 one on the website

[curlykaren]

Hi e-dealer/Mr Barber; Parking ticket says...

Civil Enforcement Officer 724 who had reasonable cause to believe the following parking contravention had occurred 83F:

Parked in a car park without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket or voucher or parking clock.

83F: The penalty Charge of ?80 must be paid before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date of Service of this Notice. If the Penalty Charge is paid before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the Date of Service of the Notice, the amount of the Penalty Charge will be reduced by 50% to ?60.

As I did actually have a ticket, and if I didn't this error would rob me of the opportunity of to pay the correct discounted rate, I will be challenging the fine but Mr Barber may wish to investigate if the impact of this error is widespread. Do you need any more info from me Mr Barber?

Thanks, Karen.

[James Barber]

Southwark maps have been amended to include speed count on East Dulwich Grove - close to the junction of East Dulwich grove with Melbourne Grove 24.4mph av. speed westbound and 25.5mph av eastbound.

http://maps.southwark.gov.uk/connect/index.jsp?tooltip=yes

[James Barber]

Latest update on the East Dulwich station works from Southern Railways to me:

"

The shelter on Platform 2 is now in use. The shelter on Platform 1 should have been operational quickly after this but whilst demolishing the old shelter, the retaining wall was found to need additional work to ensure the ground in this location did not subside. We expect the shelter on Platform 1 to be ready by the end of the week. We did choose June-July to install the shelters expecting reasonable weather to mitigate the loss of shelters for a couple of weeks but the unusual amount of rain has meant that their being out of use has been more of an issue than it would be normally I?m afraid.

The information screen at the street level to Platform 1 is faulty and due for replacement as part of a wider project to install or replace screens on our network. This will happen over the next few months (but work can't take place over the Olympics). The clock on the information board on platform 1 is now working.

The grafitti will be seen to this week and the leaky shelter has been highlighted to our facilities team to be rectified.

"

[OliviaDee]

Hi James,

still no reponse from Fusion?

Thanks,

Olivia

[Henslowe]

Hi James, I live on Henslowe Road SE22. The council refused to take our blue bin away this week (yellow tagged) because they said it had the wrong contents. The offending article was one synthetic blanket lying on the top of the bin. When my partner phoned this morning to apologise he was told the bin would not be collected for two weeks as a 'punishment'. There has recently been a noticeable increase on our road of the number of yellow tags. So what do I now do for the next two weeks - put my recyclying in my other bin? Your advice would be most welcome.

[Penguin68]

Surely the blue bin is only collected every two weeks anyway - so if this week's collection is 'missed', the next normal collection would anyway be in 2 weeks time. The council can't 'punish' by adding a further week before collection as that would mean collecting a blue bin out-of-sequence? The council does come out to collect 'out-of-sequence' when they have made an error, of course, so perhaps the 'punishment' is one of not making an out of sequence collection. Your blue bin should be collected again when it is due again, in 2 weeks time.

The bin men can't just dump an offending article on the ground - they won't anyway know whether it is the only one in the bin and they don't have time to sift the rubbish - and they shouldn't be mixing non-recylable with recylable. It is unfortunate, of course, and an easy error to make, working out what is and isn't recycled isn't obvious, when it comes to plastics but I am not sure what else the bin men could have done.

The 'error' comes in assuming the 'ordinary joe' is an expert in material identification as regards the (different in each borough) recyling rules. But that is the price we pay for 'right-on' green-ness I suppose.

[betty31]

Hi James, I was wondering where I'm now meant to park if all the parking in grove vale is gradually disappearing? Everyone who lives next to Goose Green now uses tintagel cresent since the parking was limited..it was already difficult enough finding parking next to my house and now you've restricted parking opposite to 2 hours a day. Do I have no rights as a resident? I pay enough taxes etc etc and yet I generally now have to park several streets away as parking is disappearing! Very frustrating..do you have any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.

[James Barber]

Hi Henslowe,

I'm sorry things have gone wrong with your blue bin this week. As P68 says you're not being punished its just that its another fortnight until they do that again. Ideally you'd hang on and keep recycling, you could use drop sites for surplus recycling, ask a neighbour if you could add some to their blue bins or you could use normal green bins as a last resort.

Hi Betty31,

After the changes more parking has been created but as you piont out much is 30mins or 2hours. I asked Cllr Barrie Hargrove and formally requested this of officers that where not outside a shop it be un restricted parking but he refused. Many of the signs have been nicked. Grove Vale has a record of this. If this continues officers will come to Dulwich Community Council to double yellow line it and we'll get a chance to say no we don't want any restrictions. At that point it would be a small scheme and Cllr Barrie Hargrove wouldnt be involved and sanity where you live would finally prevail - its been a bad day!

Hi OlivaDee,

I've had a response and will dig it out and post over the weekend. Apologies for the delay.

[the-e-dealer]

What about a residents parking scheme.

[fazer71]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> What about a residents parking scheme.

hehehe

Joking aside, well maybe not ?. it is quite incredible how the number of parking spaces appears to be deminishing quicker than the human eye every ? dozen months or so.

Is it a master plan to get more parking tickets issued?

Is it a master plan to reduce the population of ED?

Is it a master plan to reduce car ownership?

Is it a master plan to force us towards a CPZ?

We need Hong Kong Phooey to sort this out it?s a mystery.

Has there been any change in the pedestrian accident totals for ED?

Maybe the number one super guy could answer that one too?

Because I can see absolutely, ZERO benefit to any / all residents of ED in this absurd reduction in available parking with islands jutting out into the road with alpine like speedbumps either side.

Well it does keep the council roads team busy spending all of their nice BIG budget which they won?t want to lose by not spending and also keeps the contractors busy chargning double and the extra annual repairs paid for by US for eternity.

Madness??. And stress for us generous locals who finance it lovely Lucky us ....

[James Barber]

Hi fazer71,

What utter nonsense.

Which East Dulwich streets are you suggesting have less parking?