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I would be interested to read Southwark’s return, especially in light of the complete lack of any monitoring of pollution levels, traffic and air quality on boundary roads of ED and Dulwich LTNs, for more than a year.

I think if we had PR the Greens would poll much higher. I’ll vote Green anyway, even if I was in a swing area I couldn’t hold my nose and vote for Kid Starver. Labour will get in for DaWN or whatever it will be after boundary changes. I doubt that much will improve or change under Sir Kieth.

The Parliamentary Tory Party are panicking about losing the next election, so are trying to invent differences between a very centrist-right leaning Labour Party, hence this disappointing and fundamentally stupid idea of dropping green policy... Labour by the way have also dropped and/or watered down policy. If I was a car manufacturer or a company thinking of building/investing or supplying green, low emission goods or services, I would want to know the UK’s plan for the next 10 years so I could plan my costs, staff and materials. As the UK are all over the place, I would invest my time and money in another Country.

In the interest of fair play would a re routed 37 travel down court lane etc. - yes this is logical.

ED Grove closed both ways due to burst water main. Closed but very little activity from Thames Water.. just standing around enjoying the peace and quiet. ohh it’s lovely and quiet without all that traffic 😄

We went for lunch on Friday and loved everything about the place.

The response that Cllr McAsh promised was on LTNs, nothing to with with ULEZ. Please keep the thread on topic.

There are some reasonable requests from OneDulwich, that Cllr McAsh said he would address and he so far has not addressed these issues. Other Cllrs also promised to press Southwark to find ways of taking the added pressure of diverted traffic away from Croxted - and so have achieved nothing - although I note this was a pre-local election promise. I really can't understand anyone's objection to having clarity, openness and transparent information - especially when it relates to residents physical and mental health.

LTN quiz! Who said: "Complaining that the South Circular has traffic on it is ridiculous. It the job of the south circular to carry traffic. Complaining about that is like going into a vegetarian restaurant and complaining that there’s no steak on the menu." a. Boris Johnson b. Simon Munk c. Rosamund Kissi-Debrah d. Richard Leeming

Ugh... nasty 😷. Well I’m in the Shropshire hills right now and the air smells amazing, not looking forward to going back to smelly air today 🤨

It’s complex but this is a nice explanation https://www.londonair.org.uk/londonair/guide/SummerSmog.aspx

The utter incompetence of Thames Water, Conway and Southwark Council...A confederacy of idiots.

There has been no data published for over a year from Southwark and as it did not measure congestion or traffic travelling below a certain speed (often quoted as 10-20km/hr), only registering traffic that was free-flowing with ATCs placed in incorrect areas (near junctions). My lived experience along with residents and bus users say different, as does TFL about our bus routes on residential red routes. It is a failed experiment, poorly designed. The BBC reported Newcastle, but there is also Ealing and Tower Hamlets where LTNs were seen as flawed and creating congestion and pollution in the poorest communities.

An emergency road closure is not design... When main residential roads and Red Routes controlled by TFL which carry over 30 per cent of all traffic, have more traffic deliberately forced onto them, the increased congestion and delay for local people is an issue. Naïve polling that points to big majorities favouring LTNs never ask follow-up questions about resulting congestion and delay. Perhaps most significantly for long-standing Labour supporters, which I used to be - is that Southwark ignored the reality that LTNs primarily displace traffic from the roads of the prosperous to the roads of the poorer and more disadvantaged residents, consider the South Circular and Lordship Lane which already suffer from high levels of air pollution. The additional congestion and stalled traffic offer no alleviation. It is a policy that goes against all the principles of social justice.

Well Southwark LTNs were certainly not 'designed' - one only has to look at the implementation as a Covid-19 'LTN' put in place due to Tory led emergency powers - Southwark should have followed the example of Ealing and committed to restoring local democracy by reverting to established processes of public consultation and removing all 'emergency' LTNs. This should have included an assessment of the impact of any proposed LTNs on traffic levels on the main residential roads in the borough, both in terms of the well-being of the residents who live on them and the impact on public transport and emergency services. So not designed...

Yes I had some clinics in there, very sad the onion tops went and now more incompetence means the chateau is at risk. More mess, traffic, dust pollution and noise for East Dulwich Grove residents, as well as the loss of our physic garden, which we were promised by Southwark would be replaced..... Meanwhile Gilkes Crescent with their huge gardens and enormous houses have been promised a courtyard green space and park. What is it about the wealthy, white elite of Dulwich owning 2-3 million pound houses that attracts Council money from Southwark, compared to my ethnic minority neighbours, with three kids in a small rental flat, working 2 jobs each and having no garden. I know who deserves a community garden more..... It’s all about power and careers for this Council.

Can you guide us all to this less increase in congestion and how is congestion defined? Because the Dept of Transport says... Regardless of whether it is defined physically or relatively, the effects of increased congestion are typically characterised by:  Slower speeds  Longer journey times  Increased queuing at junctions or bottlenecks  Increased stopping and starting  More time spent stationary  Less predictable journey times Which definitely fits into TFL's complaints to Southwark Council re: certain roads post implementation of you-know-whats..... Not numbers of vehicles. Which begs the question. Why did Southwark avoid measuring congestion as suggested by many a resident.

I sent to my Cllr at the time, a couple of months ago, with photos of lime bikes blocking the pavement and a complaint. They are all too busy on their careerist climbing up the greasy pole of politics to care.

Yes ... I remember, the little bus was not welcome by the residents of Court Lane and Calton Avenue, where it was originally meant to run, as it was not in keeping with the area.... so much for encouraging public transport use.

There is a huge bike parking space just across the road to me, usually filled with.....no bikes and a few scooters on their sides. Meanwhile I have video footage of a van dropping lime bikes on the pavement all down East Dulwich Grove, including outside the newer block of flats across from the school and health centre. So extra parking spaces will not solve the issue of bikes abandoned on pedestrian areas.

He gave me some nerines,. When the new build was planned he was offered a lot of money...but would never sell - I would love Southwark Council to put a preservation order on it so it can only be a garden and never be built on.

Makes complete sense that the P13 travels this way, but it won’t happen as residents in Court Lane like their private road, the two Dulwich Cllrs will not allow this. Selfishness is inherently part of the local politics.

Southwark Council has done nothing to improve public transport (as this has been discussed as a reason for CPZ - which incidentally I support, even though dangerous parking and idling cars are still part and parcel of every school run to Alleyn’s, JAGs and the other private schools on the Herne Hill/Dulwich border). In fact the bus journeys of buses on LL, ED Grove and Croxted to get to work, school etc are much, much worse and a lot longer in term s of journey time, since this Council put in certain policies. Meanwhile Manchester brings in a fleet of publically owned yellow bee electric buses - fantastic.

Yep...looked at bit of a ‘mare. Thames water of course......

LL looked closed to all traffic at the Townley Rd junction when I walked past. Thames Water.