Penguin68
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But maybe you can get an ambulance if you've been injured in the attack?
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Another TSG van on blues and twos just shot down Underhill, passing my house at 15:30 hrs. Which suggests this residential street is now an accepted emergency route to the South Circular. Which it never used to be. And which I'm guessing reflects a change in road usage which is likely to have been influenced by other recent road changes locally. But I'm sure life is much quieter now in other roads, so lucky them. But their quietness shouldn't be seen, in my view, as being a universal benefit to the area.
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Surely the issue is one of intent - clipping a bus lane whilst performing a manoeuvre which is otherwise not intending to 'use' the bus lane is very different in intent than occupying a bus lane and continuing forward in it. TfL clearly takes 'intent' into mind when administering 'their' section of roads - Southwark takes revenue generation opportunities as their watchword.
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Xmas lunch at local pubs/restaurants?
Penguin68 replied to Alisongb1's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
If you like very good quality South Asian food then Babur in Brockley is offering a well priced, for what it is, Christmas day menu with sensitively priced reductions for a more limited children's menu. They also have a compelling wine list and their specialist cocktails are phenomenal. Not traditional Christmas fare, but then that might be an additional recommendation. -
I've certainly had a bike come out of that road, although I cannot recall if that was legal (a lot of the 'one-way' roads do allow bikes to go against the flow of motorised traffic locally) or simply a rogue cyclist. Either which way, to assume no oncoming traffic is never safe nowadays, even where the roads are nominally one-way.
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It would also reduce the revenue opportunities.
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Read what I wrote, it's concentrating on all the people around a school which means that slightly obscured and difficult to read signage goes unnoticed. Because we are focusing on people and not on road signs. And because we are very experienced at doing that when driving past or near schools, which until very recently didn't carry huge fines for driving near them.
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My car was stolen a few months back from my driveway but I had a tracker and found it in a private car park in Lavender Hill close to the police station. I was lucky. The thieves hide it up against that eventuality. High spec cars are targeted I'm afraid. The way it was stolen required the thieves to wire in their own computer accessing a front light (which had had a metal sheet welded across which they prised off). They had searched for a tracker but not found it. They also had to cut away a steering wheel lock. They had to come well tooled up and briefed to do what they did. Beating them off is non trivial. As I said, them not finding my tracker was just lucky. -
Which is why people are staring at the roads pavements and missing signs placed high up, in small type and often slightly obscured by trees etc. Their (and indeed my) attention is on people on the roads and pavements. Would you have it otherwise?
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Another shout out for Milk & More - their app allows you to alter the order, add or subtract to it and also to schedule holiday stops without having to leave messages in bottle - so more secure. You do have to set up a direct debit with them, but I haven't had any problems with that myself. I have had one or two missed or late deliveries in several years, but not really a problem - only very occasional and caused mainly by delivery-person illness. And very much feels like an old-fashioned milk delivery. They do special seasonal offers as well. More expensive than the cheapest of the super market milk prices, but for that its at your door, fresh and no bother.
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I have already said that I don't like fireworks. But I do believe in freedom for others to act within the law for their own pleasure. You evidently don't. So who's the troll?
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As the days shorten having evening fireworks for e.g. birthday parties becomes more realistic, the idea that fireworks is only about Guy Fawkes day or New Year's Eve is not a rule. I personally do not like fireworks, but other do, and I would see no reason to stop other's pleasure. I am sure the local Puritans will object, and there are issues about disturbing wild life with unexpected noise. But I'm in favour of simple pleasures. And many do like fireworks.
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A number of recent crashes appear to have happened late at night or in the early morning. It is more likely than at other times that these may be stolen cars or ones being used for crime. These are not, really, road safety issues, at least in the sense that it's all about good driving. And need different remedies.
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Precisely the intent for revenue generation, I'm guessing. Particularly as it's a popular route.
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They shot part of an episode of the Bill around Camberwell Old Cemetery, a film set was nothing like this, for a start there were no cameras! Or direction, or site vehicles, or re-takes.
