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Based on the videos in this story https://x.com/NFBUK/status/1787211980027101194 it does seem like a bit of an issue. Although some of the pedestrians don't do the best job of stopping and checking the crossing is clear those efforts are far better than a majority of the cyclists. I would image they are picking up a reasonable amount of speed coming downhill off the bridge and are not aware of the crossing.

For small businesses the merchant fees charged by the payment processing companies can eat into their margins quite significantly which is why many of them prefer cash. The strange thing is that on their webpage (https://www.ryecars.com/contact-us) it shows they accept cards - maybe it has to be over the phone or in the office with a card machine but the drivers cannot take payment.

The slight issue with expecting residents to clear the leaves is they need somewhere to put them - perhaps the council could provide a bin or disposal scheme for green waste such as this 😄

I used to live up in that direction and quite a lot of locals (families and teenagers) used the bowling alley and cinema. It was reasonably inexpensive for London and certainly cheaper than going to the West End especially for eating out. One of the nice things about Rotherhithe is (or was) the amount of green space and scarcity of tall buildings. It is very easy to get to from here - Overground from Peckham Rye to Surrey Quays or P12 bus.

Loads up okay for me:

There is also this site http://bombsight.org which gives details on the bomb that struck during the Blitz

From what I have seen in the past the person locking up drives around and locks each gate as they go. I am surprised there isn't a one way turnstile gate somewhere as I have been locked in (managed to climb over a gate) and know several others that have been locked in.

I think you are correct - there is a sign on Lordship Lane just near the BT phone exchange which appears to indicate that you cannot turn on to Court Lane but I think it is misleading and is referring to turn at the end on to Carlton Avenue. I am not sure why the sign is positioned there and not before the intersection with Eynella Road where it would be more accurate.

I'd recommend Isabelle Capitain on Upland Road (Isabelle Capitain – Handmade Jewellery – Jewellery Handmade In London (isabelle-capitain.co.uk) She does her work onsite (you can often see her working throughout the day) and has done numerous repairs for my family.

Unfortunately it replies upon residents having a place put the leaves. Seems a bit slack of the council to not clear the leaves from the tress and rely upon residents to put them in a brown bin which they also have to pay the council to have.

That could be applied to many items of council spending though (eg. should residents without children subsidise playgrounds in parks) This time of the year a lot of the leaves that go in my brown bin are from the councils trees on the pavement and road that they don't bother to clear.

Are the surrounding wards getting CPZs? If so then it may just move parking pressure to Dulwich Hill leading to residents requesting a CPZ down the line.

Hi mcbilkur, my daughter uses the 185 to get to and from school and the timetable can always be a bit erratic I think mainly due to traffic on the route. She uses the TfL Go app to check when the buses are due as this uses the same source as the Countdown timers and that seems to be the most reliable way. I think like a lot of bus routes the timetable is a nice idea but isn't accurate due to traffic / roadworks / driver changes etc.

You could apply that argument to any form of taxation - should people who don't have children have to contribute to schools, should people who don't use libraries have to contribute to those, should people who don't ride a bike contribute to the building of cycle lanes etc etc.

I'm not sure how mixing a school street with buses is going to work. Whereas other school streets are completely closed to motorised traffic this seems like the potential for confusion is high. The junction of Friern Road and Etherow Street is already pretty bad for parking violations at school pick up and drop off. I can't see this improving that.

Hmm this is slightly awkward https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/01/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-anna-goodman-removes-poster-cctv/

I agree with that approach as long as the council made the raw traffic count and pollution data available to the public (who are paying for it to be collected after all) - not sure if it would be covered under the Freedom of Information Act. I think doing that would allow independent analysis of the data and would show that the council is not manipulating, skewing or cherry picking data.

The terrapins have been there for many years. I remember looking at them sunning themselves on the rocks when my daughter was small enough to go to the infants playground and that is at least seven years ago.

There is also Supa Ya Ramen on Rye Lane https://goo.gl/maps/iv7cxrGWCtXF4TQS9

I don't see the problem with flawed statistics with that paper as they will just analyse the data provided to them. The issue is more likely to be with "traffic volume data provided by the local authority" If Islington have done similar to Southwark where traffic counters are placed in locations where traffic is too slowly moving to record accurate counts then it is worthless. The "garbage in - garbage out" principle applies.

You can see where the buses are in real time on this website https://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/london-buses/#P13 Doesn't seem to be many buses on the P13 route today.

Not sure that would work in practice as widening the pavements would remove the bus lanes leaving a single lane each way. Every time a bus stopped all the traffic in that direction would come to a standstill and the idling would result in increased pollution - not exactly the ideal environment to sit in.

I think the key passage in that BBC story is "Traffic data from 46 LTN scheme across 11 boroughs reported the mean percentage reduction of traffic on streets within them was 46.9%" It isn't really a surprise traffic is down when the road is inaccessible to vehicles for some or all of the time. The story goes on to note that 96 LTN schemes were introduced which means 50 have been discounted from the study. Hardly a complete picture.

If the closed / not closed Dulwich Village junction is to be permanent then I think the road set-up around it needs to be changed. I'd like to see on street parking removed from Eynella Road, Court Lane, Carlton Avenue and Woodwarde Road with those roads being divided into a two way cycle lane on one side and a clockwise running one way road system on the other. It would make it a lot safer for cyclists and would allow for the P4 bus to be rerouted down Court Lane and through the junction.

I have gone to Highshore Road sorting office twice to pick up mail - once I was able to get a couple of items, the other I came away empty handed. I think it depends upon how busy they are and how helpful the person at the counter feels. The time I got nothing was a couple of months ago and I was told there was a large amount of unsorted mail which would make it too time consuming to find an item.