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Abe_froeman

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  1. You don't find that the junciotn now offers a more pleasant and a better experience?
  2. It's part of a class war designed to attack your personal liberty??
  3. ?6 million! How much did Southwark sell their plots (for residential develpoment) a bit further up Lordship Lane for?
  4. If he can't serve his constituents as fully as he feels he should (for whatever reason) then it's only proper that he should stand down. Putting money before democracy might seem ok on Tooley Street but for the sake of ?20,000 it's better that his ward has a new councillor now rather than hanging on for six months with no representation at all. And the cost of the standalone by-election is only ?10k more than will be squandered on the Melbourne Grove segregation barrier study.
  5. The south side of this junction is now partially open and amazingly there is still a workman there at this time. Maybe they will meet the October 2 deadline after all.
  6. This saga reminds me of Jeremy Paxman's infamous interview with Michael Howard!
  7. I don't know if that's necessarily right Penguin. The number of signatories to the original Melbourne Grove segregation barrier petition would be about ten per cent of the number of votes needed to be elected in Southwark. Supporting three or four such schemes a year for each electoral cycle should be more than enough to ensure re-election. East Dulwich councillors only need 1350 nimbies: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/1000/5_previous_election_results/3486/2014_council_elections/7
  8. And many of them have aspirations of promotion to a job in SW1, using their position as a councillor purely as a springboard rather than it being a hobby.
  9. Such as a campaign for independence from the rest of Southwark?!
  10. The other way of looking at it is that car ownership is low in Southwark and the number of car journeys made even lower, particularly when compared with other modes of transport. So a much better investment of tax payers money might be improving housing conditions for the very poor, improving cleanliness and the environment generally across the borough(healthy rats running around in broad day light can't be an indicator of a safe clean environment?), providing subsidised (sanitised and well maintained) sports facilities accesible to everyone, etc etc. Or we could spend tens of thousands of pounds every day 'improving' junctions or rat runs for a very small number of people, most of whom are already doing all right thanks.
  11. Charles ... if I lived on a street I would want a barrier...
  12. When you say "we refused to close Melbourne Grove" did you actually have the option to on 24 June? It seems to me from the council officers comments published after that meeting that you couldn't have closed it, despite the fact you wanted to.
  13. They could always put a barrier across the road to resolve the left turn problems.
  14. Blaming the electorate for "unnecessary angst" after telling the press "... I would want a barrier" before any evidence emerges of the necessity or utility of said barrier seems particularly arrogant.
  15. I'm looking forward to reading the Southwark News update and interview shortly...
  16. They can't complete it without working on it. I don't think I've seen anyone doing any work there in over a week now. It must be extremely frustrating for businesses along that stretch. I can't understand the total lack of urgency from the ouncil or contractor. There can't be any kind of penalty clause in the contract. In the real world delivering a project nearly two months late would a lot of financial pain pain for the contractor.
  17. RCH, it sounds like you have put in a tremendous amount of effort and I hope you are successful with both the petition and deputation. A common sense approach to traffic management, and road works generally, across the community would be a huge step forward for Southwark and might bring an end to the unheard complaints pointing the obvious flaws every time a project is proposed. There are countless threads on here bearing testament to how poorly (and sometimes dangerously)managed East Dulwich's road works and traffic are managed and with any luck your work will be the beginning of the end of the whole debacle.
  18. Thanks rch. I think I have a bit more reading to do on this. Other aspects of it that seem odd to me are that applications for spending from this year's budget ought to have been submitted by 7 November 2914, and "Ideas for the CGS capital programme must demonstrate that they will make an area cleaner, greener or safer with a permanent, physical improvement" I don't see how a feasibility study can possibly meet that criteria. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/article/1765/applications_for_cleaner_greener_safer_funding_now_open
  19. Rch and others have put in some sterling work here to try to bring a more cohesive and considered traffic management review for the benefit of the masses rather than the few. The counter petition is a great effort and shows the strength of feeling on this issue. One thing that confuses me about the proposed barrier is that the study is being financed through the cleaner greener safer scheme. This guidance suggests that quotes would have to have been sought for the CGS grant proposal as part of an application for the grant. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/12405/guidance_notes_for_cgs_2016-17_application_eform It seems though that it was only when the council realised this study couldn't be funded through any other sources (because the barrier is not supported by the data or traffic plans) that they suggested using CGS money. Given that, I don't understand how a valid application with relevant supporting quotes etc could have been put together before the grant was made - at the same meeting at which it was suggested to the deputation CGS money would be available. Does anyone know the full process for applying for and obtaining a CGS grant or if the council can just hand them out on a whim without any application, consultation or paperwork?
  20. Edgar Kail surely?
  21. Let me guess. "If I lived on Loughborough Junction, ..."?? :)
  22. A woodpecker maybe? Edit: EDF suggests there maybe some nearby! www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1084833
  23. Sorry, I was being a bit sarcastic about the monolithic new kerbstones they've installed at North Cross road and the Townley Rd / East Duwich Grove junction. I don't understand why they need to be so huge but at North X it maybe to do with containing gigantic ramp they've built.
  24. These guys do zebedee but the British standard kerb looks a couple of feet shorter than the East Dulwich standard... http://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/kerb
  25. That crash website is jolly interesting. It seems to show only two incidents in Melbourne Grove from '05 to 2014 compared with 5 in North Cross Road, 3 in Ashbourne Grove, and too many to count on the B219 (Barry Road). Maybe these accident black spot rat runs should also be closed off with a barrier before anyone else is hurt? Incidentally, Friern Road, closed off by a barrier of the sort proposed for Mebourne Grove, has had ten crashes in the same period.
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