Penguin68

No, unlike power meters they can force one on you, whether you want one or not. They did on me, and it's on the stopcock in the pavement outside my house. They can also force you to accept metered charges.

Do you have any reason, other than malice, to doubt the OP's two posts setting out what happened?

The business of the crossing attendant on the Underhill: Dunstan's junction would suggest that they do. And your comment 'little darlings' suggests that you are inimical towards parental care and love - and possibly children themselves. The younger ones at least, if delivered by public transport have a quite long (and in some instances hilly) walk to get to these schools, unless the P13 is on their route. But I entirely agree that ignoring road restrictions (and indeed leaving cars with engines running) is not acceptable behaviour.

It was a response to long and at times clearly unhelpful, not to say insulting, comments including ones implying that the initial report was madey-uppy.

You clearly have a fantasy that you're a KC in a Court. Your questions are mainly rhetorical and aimed to obfuscate. As a one note Samba you have a great capacity to annoy, but to no real purpose.

And I am not standing in your way to address that for you, but you are not appointed to address that for me, or anyone else. Actually, not a lot locally, considering the weight of traffic. And our roads (overall in the UK) are substantially safer (accidents per traveller mile) than in many comparable countries. Injuries and road deaths have been (thank goodness) generally on the decline in the UK. You don't know that for the schools in question, and frankly neither do I. My guess would be that the majority fall in the quarter to three quarter mile radii - but that's just an estimate. There are those who argue these have been exacerbated by traffic blocking measures locally.

Up to about a mile, frequently (some do have much smaller catchment areas) but for a young child a mile is not the 10 to 12 minute walk of an adult but perhaps 20 to 25 minutes. Which can be quite a tiring start to a school day. And the adult may then need to get off to work, possibly in a different direction. Which significantly adds to the commute time. A couple of minutes drive to the school may be saving 30-40 minutes of the adults time at the start of the working day.

I think the point is that it was a mistake that the child's parent made, who should have been observing his child, training and teaching it appropriate and safe cycling and been seen apologising for what was obviously not intentional but still 'wrong' cycling. His attitude didn't correct, but rather endorsed poor cycling behaviour.

And you know that how?

You need to get medical attention if you haven't already. Dog's mouths, where bites have penetrated the skin, can be riddled with nasties. You need an antibiotic shot from A&E.

Another real problem is road works, with buses being delayed or diverted. As a traveller I need to choose routes with some certainty, buses are not at the moment, and for some time, a good choice for that. And there seems no coordination or planning for even 'planned' works. And no encouragement from fiscal penalties to do these fast

Agree with this. He's stood down from his role in Cabinet having left the Party, but he was elected as a representative of all the constituents in his ward and logic suggests that he should continue to represent them as a councillor for his remaining 3 months. He might wish to stand again, as a Green, in that ward (if he's chosen) and hope that personal loyalty to him might transfer, but that's now the call of his (new) party and him. He will have to balance that with a view about how many of his Labour supporters will feel sufficiently betrayed to continue to support Labour. I suspect, I may be wrong, that he will not have a cabinet position open to him after May (unless the Greens sweep in locally) so presumably he will have to consider his next career move, and whether that's back to full-time primary teaching.

When a car is left damaged by the road-side it may be that the insurer is tasked with recovering the vehicle to assess it and (possibly) take it for repair. Only if it is in a dangerous position will the police recover it - which saves money for the tax-payer. You may also have some recovery options with e.g. the AA (other organisations are available). Were the car to have been stolen or abandoned then it will take some time to sort this out, and again unless the vehicle is in a dangerous position the police won't be rushing to deal with that. Not sure who the 'they' are in this case.

I suppose I'd assume that Councillor McCash, who is, as I recall, a self-confessed revolutionary Marxist, had hoped to take Southwark Labour down his chosen route - when he lost his leadership bid he must then have been looking for a party which shared his ultra-left views (ultra-left at least in the light of Starmer's interpretation of socialism). The Greens, for him, clearly fit that role. After that his timing was all about benefiting his chosen (new) party - at least he didn't stand for Labour and then defect giving the Greens an unexpected 3 year seat. As someone who doesn't share the wings of his political position I don't wish him well (politically) - but neither do I wish him ill as a 'punishment' for his defection.

How naive. And, by the way, organisations don't initially submit proposals, in this type of instance, they respond to a brief proposed by the commissioning organisation. You are confusing this with academic research where academics submit proposals looking for funding. In this instance funding was already available for a proposal which met the brief. And the commissioners you can be pretty clear, knew the answer they were looking for.