first mate

LCC and its various off shoots does present as a sort of community, working to shared aims, with lots of advisories/scripts for its members to use to achieve those aims.

I don't think you can really describe the Dulwich Society transport sub-committee, chaired by an award winning LCC activist of the year, as truly apolitical? Weren't a number of those committee sessions also attended and supported by incumbent Labour Councillors?

Glad you got sorted. Meantime, hoping for an update from someone on what happened at the GALA consultation meeting with local residents, a few days ago. Especially interested in thinking on their proposed event extension and footprint.

The vehicles shown in the photo above are bikes that are powered. It is hard to tell, just from the photos, how fast each bike can go. Glad we can agree that most would not refer to them as "mopeds".

I have no information on that. I'd imagine GALA would be happy to advise you direct. I am interested to know what happened at the consultation meeting a few days ago and am hoping that someone from FOPRP can share. The concern is that it is proposed to extend the event footprint and timeframe. If successful, this could set precedent for further extensions and for other events organisers to bid for slots throughout summer, in a scenario similar to what has happened at Brockwell Park. This is not a flight of fancy, Cllr Catherine Rose has stated intention to monetise parkland.

Yes, but wondering why the picture that is the reason for this particular thread has been removed? Just to add, Malumbu has posted before about incidents he has had with pedestrians when he was out cycling, caused, he said, by them not looking where they were going.

Did anyone manage to get to this? What was the feedback?

Why has M64 removed the picture to the alleged incident?

Thanks for the confirmation and good to know this tree is going to be preserved. It is very beautiful. Thank you also to those of you who intervened on the ground and with the Council and thank goodness for FOPR!

I hope that for the sake of anyone riding or cycling in the dark, this area is very well marked and cordoned off. I have known a number of cyclists suffer extremely nasty injuries as a result of holes and cracks in the road.

Check out some of the truly huge and heavy vehicles trundling up and down that area to the Charter build. But we are not going to ban them are we? So in terms of focussing on biggest and heaviest I am not quite sure what your point is? That is very true. I am as against reckless driving as anyone on here, but plonking a picture onto social media with assumptions rather than facts, to make a point just looks silly.

No type of vehicle should drive or ride on the pavement, it is obviously potentially dangerous.

If a car or other travelling at speed, someone local would have heard quite a bang? Maybe a large lorry or similar, misjudging space? A much larger vehicle probably would not need to go fast at all in order to dislodge it and there would be no collision noise? Lots of very large vehicles involved with building work at Charter.

Suggest all eyes kept on this tree until Gala event completely over this year. Also monitor for further branch lopping. If they keep hacking off branches, it will get diseased. It is entirely possible this tree could 'accidently' get cut down because of a mixup. In those pictures, if recent, the tree does not look diseased at all. Not sure location of tree in relation to new proposed increased Gala event footprint? Does it get in the way of proposed track, or something?

My view is try to get police to do some sessions at known hotspots but include cyclists, who often do not stop at the zebra either. More enforcement for careless and reckless road use needed all round.