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Rude Count the posts this is my 8th on this thread out of 60 odd But I'm not going to count traffic, it was a facetious post And I was being facetious to Alice too joining in with the spirit of her comment. Or... at you double bluffing and playing me at my own game. Nice, Nearly gotme. I'll need to get up earlier tomorrow to catch you out!

Well worth a trawl back thought the posts. Very entertaining. My two'penneth worth today, constant rain and South London clay soil.

This is quite a dull thread, I'm working my way through comments on the other one and it's great to see that we were as rabid/bonkers then (almost 20 years ago when the thread stated) as now.

Have you been asleep for the last couple of weeks? https://www.theredcard.org/news/statement-on-comments-by-jim-ratcliffe/

Reform and the Tories (to a lesser extent) will be pro car and anti active travel. Although whatever your views about Labour Southwark I really wouldn't recommend either.

Because I have a life. In deed. But I am the peoples' poet!

Why does your driving support the economy? My driving supports me and friends/family. I'll still buy things whether I drive, use other forms of transport or get things delivered. Similarly, I'll still socialise and spend money in the hospitality industry irrespective of the form of transport. If I deem it more inconvenient to myself not to drive, I feel that I am making the world a better place rather than clogging up roads what I consider as unnecessarily. If government and others make it more difficult to drive, for example in charging me for parking, that is a good thing.

@Rockets I'm well aware of your position - Southwark is corrupt/incompetent, the active travel 'lobby' in particular those pesky cyclists have too much influence and too much road infrastructure is devoted to them, and that measures to reduce traffic don't work. i don't agree, but that is nature of debate. Over to you, as a person who once cycled a lot, do you think that there should be no more cycle lanes, quiet ways and the like? Would you like to see their removal and opening up of roads/junctions where motorised traffic is prohibited? Are there any recent schemes that you support? I rarely use the East side of the Rye so not really in a position to comment on the specifics and the impacts. Are you are regular user? Good to hear your response to those four questions.

Making cynical comments doesn't help. I've given my views and personal experience many times. I'm not sure why you don't take this on board. But anyway here we go again. I've commuted by bike mainly in central London and now more local for donkeys years. In the morning and afternoon there is congestion. As there was when I was a child when I visited family in London. Occasionally I had to drive for work, and it would be awful, going out to the M4, M40 and M1, or down to Sussex. This is where you find out where the Sun in Sands (former pub in Blackheath), World of Leather roundabout and the like are which the often refer to on the radio traffic news. Wandsworth Bridge. etc etc etc. I occasionally got the 185 into work, if I was on this by, say 7,30 it could be fairly clear going into Camberwell. Closer to school opening if the traffic was stopped before Sacred Heart school it could then take for ever to get onto the bus lane. School hols and suddenly the roads became much quieter. So in all this time: Court Lane in the morning would grid lock at the junction. Traffic from Carlton Ave, which did not have the priority, would drive across blocking the junction. Dulwich village would have bad congestion, I have no idea if it is better or worse now. My experience of Lordship Lane is cycling down from the Harvester to Court Lane, or bus through to Goose Green. It was usually busy in commuting times. I expect it is still but no idea if better or worse. Underhill feels no different in the morning. I know when there were roadworks more traffic came through from the South Circ. I expect that this is less now. I often wonder where it comes from and where it is going. You can get a nice run, cycling on Underhill, but sometimes a bus, or particularly heavy traffic on Barry Road, can mean traffic backs up. Dunno about Croxted Road, rarely use it. I'll cycle up College Road and the like to come out by Gipsy Hill if I am going that way. Kingsdale/Dulwich Prep can be a pain due to parents parking irresponsibly, and there is a lot of activity on Saturdays there too. Peckham Rye was generally always congested, and could be made worse by cars running the lights at the junction with East Dulwich Road. This is my observations, I don't sit there and count the traffic. This is a very dull post, I've told you much of this before, but you did ask and comments like "probably a question that will be desperately ducked, dodged and avoided at all costs" are unhelpful in what should be an adult discussion. I've got more questions for you on another thread.

Having a go at an academic is really ridiculous. According to your way of looking at life every civil servant who goes home on election day and votes for the party who is not governing is some sort of enemy within. You are welcome to your views but slagging off researchers undermines them. And so does your ignoring perfectly appropriate questions, and cherry picking to suit your agenda. I'll be answering your questions, which I have answered before, on the other thread shortly.

Not being able to find old threads on this site.....

I'm getting dozens of fliers a year from all the estate agents. I'm not selling, thinking of selling or renting out. The one from John D Woods really got my goat as it is plastic coated so can't even be recycled. I've emailed them. They must be making so much money to to these mass mail outs. I couldn't find the old thread about things that put you into an irrational rage (although this rage is not irrational) I have a nice time too watching GB win their first medal at the Winter Olympics - that is an understatement! I'll burn it, sod the tiny impact on air quality. Post script, ok calmed down, the thing wouldn't burn and would set my alarm off anyway so outside charred. The e-mail bounced back to what a great company. But it would be interesting to hear views, serious or humorous about estate agent marketing

@PenguinYou will have to explain this to me bearing in mind your and others outrage at a possible new scheme on Ryedale, and the use by many on this forum of Southwark News to support their reaction. I don't know what precautionary mindset means. The precautionary principle is that we need to act now for example in tackling climate change rather than wait twenty years for conclusive evidence (that was the situation in 2006 when Stern published his report) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review

Two for Ratcliffe, the obvious one: And one simply because it has the word "You are nothing but blind fascists" in it. Oh and a good song too. Haven't listened to this for years. Bloody good!