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Rather dismissive of you @Rockets There's other words that come to mind. You've hardly discussed anything with me over the last five years. You've ducked a number of perfectly reasonable questions. And I'm not sure why your cabal seem to be liking what you say. Anyway I'm still reflecting on £3 Billion pounds that road congestion apparently costs London. This as said is compared to journey times should roads be running freely. Unless you actually break down what causes congestion and what can be done throwing large numbers around seems pointless. It needs to be delays that can be avoided and the reasons for these delays. I expect a principle reason for delays is our crumbling infrastructure and increasing number of road works, but planned and, Thames Water being the prime example, emergency Delays due to accidents and how this can be reduced, I expect that bad driving is a major factor. The weather, it is bad, it is raining heavily, traffic increases and slows, with a likelihood of increased accidents Poor driving, I'm sure we've all waited at lights due to drivers running the red and disrupting flow, stopped to turn right or having to turn right on red because a number of cars have run the red light, blocking junctions nose to tail etc etc. Both at normal junctions and roadworks Traffic management including the phasing of traffic lights. Yes you can bring bus lanes, bike lanes and preferential treatment of groups of road users. I expect road works are a massive component of the cause of congestion and that this may have increased. Views on the above from those prepared to engage most welcome. Well done to the men's curling team for making the final. An exciting and nail biting evening. Shockingly with all this interest in Andrew Battenberg not even made the main page of BBC news yet.

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@springfleur55 returning to your original question I expect that Southwark use transport a transport consultant to model and assess the impact of schemes, There will be standard models that are adopted in this area, improved as further data comes to hand. The models will tell you exactly what happens, but give a likely scenario (if they are deterministic ie A B and C happens) or probabilistic if the likelihood of things happening across a number of possible scenarios. Traffic flow, carbon emissions and air pollution depend on numerous factors (variables) which is why it is never an exact science. A good example is forecasting the weather, a far more complex job, where we are told the likelihood of something happening. So just because there is 90% probability of rain over an hour, it doesn't mean that the clouds may not break and the sun shines briefly. As for the specifics, you would hope that drivers quickly realise what is going on and quickly stop using the route. My main experience is the Goodrich School Street where locals are well aware of it. Whether drivers don't look at signage because they are on auto being a route they have always used, or taking more notice of their satnav, I don't know. All the people I know who have been fined simply hadn't looked at the signage. At least one said to me "well I have always driven that way". You have some good experience so suggest fire a question off to Southwark, a complaint if you think it needs one. You could try your MP who in turn may write to the Transport Secretary but all my experience over the years is that this doesn't get anywhere. Probably even less so as now officials are allowed to use AI in drafting ministerial correspondence. Not sure if an FOI will reveal more, but pretty simple to put together and AI will do it all for you know. I've done a few in my life but not for some time. Apols for making this so simplistic. Many I believe don't understand the process and as someone who has worked in a technical area for much of my career, including modelling in my earlier days, it really gets my goat when people slag off, for example, weather forecasting. Worse in this post Brexit "what do experts know" world.

I'm a bit worried by your sudden involvement on this Forum. The former Prince Andrew is now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor Mountbatten in an anglicisation of Von Battenburg adopted by that branch of our Royal Family in 1917 due to anti-German sentiment. Another anglicisation could be simply Battenburg as in the checker board cake. So I surmise that your are Andrew Battenburg, aka Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and that you have infiltrated social media so that the country can put the emphasis on Mandelson rather than yourself. Bit of a failure. I don't expect an answer from police custody.

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Not sure about that. Rockets seems to have (rightly in my view) identified two key motivating elements in Mcash's defection: anger at his previous (arguably shabby) treatment and a (linked) desire to trash the Labour party, nationally and locally. The defection, timed for maximum damage, combined with the invective and moral exhibitionism of his statement counts as rather more than a "hissy fit". I would add a third motivation of political ambition: it's not inconceivable that he has his eye on the Dulwich & West Norwood seat which is predicted to go Green. James Barber was indulging in typical LibDem sleight of hand, claiming that Blair introduced austerity to *councils* before the coalition. This is a kind of sixth form debating point. From 1997-1999 Labour broadly stuck to Tory spending totals, meaning there was limited growth in departmental spending, including local govt grants. However local government funding rose substantially in the Noughties, especially in education and social care. It is a matter of record that real-terms local authority spending increased in the Blair / Brown years overall. So he's manifestly wrong (or only right if the focus is on 1997-1999, which would be a bizarre focus and one he didn't include in his claim) but he wasn't claiming Blair introduced austerity more widely.

My view is that any party that welcomes a self-declared Marxist would merit a negative point.

We can but hope!

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