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From Modern Toss via Bluesky:

I take it they’re not connected to Fika or any other business? Just looking for a busy area to preach?

I haven’t walked down Bellenden on a weekend for ages, is this a regular thing?

When they were on Just Eat, I always used Tse’s on London Rd FH for a takeaway; I really rated them. But they dropped off the app, are they still going? The best Chinese food I’ve had in London is at the Joy King Lau, Leicester Street, W1. First went there on a recommendation 30 years ago.

Brockley Beckham or whatever his name is. Can there be another valid reason he’s all over the BBC?

M&S outlets in railway stations and airports are not usually operated by M&S directly but are a franchised operation, run under licence from M&S. So, there could be some leeway to vary prices.

“Encumbered with Children” sounds like it could be a business on Lordship Lane.

Streets for people, not for cars and the selfish minority who insist on driving everywhere. This is the end, the very end, of the internal combustion engine era. Why is that so difficult to grasp?

It was an attempt at humour. I won’t bother again.

Admin, can these be moved to Roads & Transport?

So, you just ignored the “unless you have useful things to say please don’t post” bit?

The residents on one side of Langton Rise and Wood Vale have absolutely no objections, of that I am certain.

I quite agree. After 40-odd years of voting Labour, I doubt that the current Dulwich Hill councillors will be getting my vote in May. But removing traffic controls, LTNs etc is definitely not the vote-winner some on here imagine it to be.

Given that the greatest threat to Labour in Southwark will come from the Greens, prepare to be somewhat disappointed on 8th May.

My question was a genuine one, not rhetorical. No need to move, just use Dunstans or go around via Langton Rise and Wood Vale; would that be a massive inconvenience? All traffic order changes will produce winners and losers, in terms of convenience, journey times, noise etc. The 18 months of this trial will surely show if the benefits for those on Ryedale are justified by any detriments to the wider area.

Me neither. I live west of Underhill and regularly use the FHR shops, PO etc or catch the 63 to Peckham, so often walk down Ryedale.

If you live a block away from the shops etc on FHR, then why do you need to drive? Down Ryedale or any other road? Is walking a problem for you?

I could be wrong but I seem to remember that there were still 6 trains per hour after the Overground started service. The service was cut back when the London Bridge upgrade works began and Platform 16 was closed, reducing capacity on that side of the station.

Hardly strange; arcane perhaps. It used to be a common practice in many towns for the swings, roundabouts etc in parks to be chained up by the council on Sundays, so that they didn’t provide a source of reckless pleasure on the sabbath. The outrage that a cake shop should open on Christmas Day reminded me of this. The policy had pretty much died out in England and Wales by the 70’s but is still in force in parts of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

I’m not a Gail’s fan but there’s no reason a business shouldn’t open on Christmas Day. However, nobody should be compelled to work the day which, given the widespread coverage of Gail’s questionable employment practices, has to be a possibility here. The only business I ever use on the 25th is maybe a pub and that’s a rarity these days but buses running would be very welcome for visiting etc. But the swings in the park should definitely remain chained up. Are parks even open on Christmas Day?

“Out of towners” ? “People’s private roads “? Very strange language. Have you actually listened to the programme?

This is utter nonsense. Cars are the ridiculous size they are now because that’s what the motor industry has decided to push onto the public and many motorists have bought into it.

Sods law in action. I must’ve got lucky.

There’s a good point made in this programme, I think by Chris Boardman, about the language used to describe traffic calming. The principal benefit of LTNs is a reduction in pedestrian injuries and deaths, which mostly means fewer children injured or killed. If LTNs were called something like “child safe zones”, who would wish to be seen opposing them?

Twice this month I’ve used the PO upstairs at the old WH Smith’s in Forest Hill. Very helpful and efficient with no long wait. But it’s sods law with post office queues, you just never know.