Dogkennelhillbilly

"This is nothing short of discrimination." What kind of discrimination, specifically?

I don't want to go down the rabbit hole too much, but are you saying you live near a tennis court now and the sound of balls being hit and bouncing is annoying, or are you saying that you imagine it would be annoying to live near a tennis court?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not sure the council cabinet reshuffle is > going to help. One of the new appointees has the > title Member for Low Traffic You never know - it might be like calling the person responsible for bombing other countries the "Defence Minister".

Commiserations to you both. It's sickening. Any glimpse of the thieves? You should keep checking Gumtree for a while - my uncle actually recovered a bike when it was listed for sale six months later! The seller was fairly dodgy but probably not the initial thief.

You're not wrong, Sue, that social distancing is a good thing at this time. However, in terms of preventing COVID spread among the youth, I don't think standing around in the open air would be a bad thing for kids and the youth to be doing. If we chase them away from there they'll be down the pub, crammed into someone's bedroom, or on the bus/train to skate somewhere further afield - all of which is more risky.

I'm surprised to hear tennis balls being described as particularly noisy!

richard tudor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How did the car hit the wall without taking out > the signpost? Presumably it was heading north and hit the wall at an angle.

"Southwark's aim is simply to force cars out of Southwark as they are owned by kulaks and oppressors of the poor...it's a long game the apparat is playing, no doubt." What I like about this conspiracy theory is that it requires adherents to believe that LTNs are covert class war waged by the Stalinist residents of Court Lane. I look forward to the LTN/antivax/antimask/secret lizard people mashup theory which all of this is presumably building up to.

Does anyone smell it again tonight? Surely no-one has lit a wood fire on an evening like tonight's. It smells like burning rubbish.

"Why not head for the Attenborough 'what we need is far fewer people overall' remedy" TBF with 64,000 deaths a year due to toxic air in the UK, what you're describing is the status quo. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/12/air-pollution-deaths-are-double-previous-estimates-finds-research https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/air-pollution-smoking-deaths-compare-a8818851.html

"Unfortunately, Southwark Council seems intent on listening to lobbyists from outside the area, and a vocal minority who personally benefit from road closures, rather than the majority who live and work in and around Dulwich." This is completely made up xenophobic rubbish - that shadowy OUTSIDERS are imposing things on the right-thinking stout yeoman residents of Dulwich. It's an assertion without any evidence, and about as reliable as the suggestion that "thousands" of people were demonstrating against LTNs. There are reasonable people who have reasonable objections to the traffic changes - but there's an increasingly unhinged conspiracy theorist wing that's progressively losing the plot. "cabby just told me that the reason the side roads are being blocked is because Sadiq is extending the Ultra-Low Emission Zone up to the North and South Circular boundary " Cabby talking conspiracy theory bollocks shocker. There's no point in closing roads well inside the South Circular in order to save money on cameras along the South Circular - for obvious reasons.

" I think a civil engineer would be best placed to try and look at traffic reduction measures without the interests of individual roads coming into play. " That's exactly what has happened and has been happening for many years!

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2012/03/23/why-bicyclists-are-better-customers-than-drivers-for-local-business/

> A couple of times I've even had other cyclists > lean on me as I've rounded a bend. This makes perfect sense and definitely happened.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rahrahrah, > > I think your emphasis is wrong. The priority > should be to improve and invest in public > transport. Cycling too but emphasis should be on > the first There's no material improvement in bus transport possible without removing other vehicles from the road - but look at the moaning about making Lordship Lane bus lanes 24 hours. Even Bakerloo line construction will take a decade - the tube isn't coming to Dulwich any time soon.

"Thinking about it more, maybe it's time for me to move back up that way" 90% of RBKC's schools are located in areas of illegally high levels of pollution. You're welcome to their fantastic road network. https://airqualitynews.com/2018/02/14/kensington-chelsea-backs-ulez-extension/

Yes - if there's one thing West Londoners like to brag about, it's how much they love living under the Westway and how there's no traffic!

" some people just live here? Of course it hasn't! It hasn't because you seem to have some delusion that 100% of the populace on this road are somehow operating in the shadows, pulling strings, and influencing local government to help raise house prices" The (Mel)Bourne (Grove) Supremacy.

Dulres3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > No, no, no, you don't need to read any of that. > > All you need is "common sense" and "stands to > > reason" and some half-remembered stuff about > > Archimedes and Newton. We're sick of all these > > experts and their so-called understanding and > > experience. > > Have you actually read the document? Why don?t you > enlighten us as to the statistical methods used in > the models, and their validity. Don?t worry, I?ll > understand the mathematics, so get as complicated > and technical as you like. > > My original point was that the changes in Dulwich > aren?t happening in isolation. There are LTNs > being implemented all over London. Whether you?re > taking a long journey or short one by road, the > fact of the matter is you?re just moving from > over-congested cell to over-congested cell, and > we?re approaching capacity. The sentiment in the > original post was that short journeys are bad, > long journeys are morally justifiable. The reality > is that such a significant reduction in capacity > will affect both equally, with the cumulative > effects across cells making an even greater > difference to longer journey times. > > Traffic planners often reference ?induced demand? > (a concept which itself isn?t as evidence based as > is commonly understood), where increasing capacity > causes more congestion as vehicles appear to > utilise spare capacity. Let?s assume for a moment > this is actually true, by removing local journeys > from the equation you just end up with the same > situation you?re in now. What matters is that > capacity is actually vaguely appropriate for > demand, and not artificially reduced to the point > where things start to fall apart. > > As for electric cars, even if they magically > sequestered carbon and wafted purified air into > the atmosphere as they drove around, they?d still > be subject to the same ideologically driven > policies. It?s obvious at this point it?s not > really about pollution. You're fundamentally misunderstanding three things here: - what induced demand is - no need to discuss it further here, there is plenty of literature free and online - that there is no free market for supply of road space. It is always the state that is a monopolist on road supply, even if it doesn't operate or own it. Road supply isn't "artificially" reduced or increased: it's always created, reduced and maintained by the state for strategic objectives. - there is an insatiable demand for free road space. Trying to match supply to that existing (let alone induced) demand is a fool's errand. We have known this for fifty years - remember that the GLC was planning to put a motorway through Norwood and Streatham! Even if all vehicles ran on wishes and dreams tomorrow, we would STILL have huge congestion problems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ringways

That's definitely an argument to win friends and influence people! 😂

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I don't know why people are interpreting changes and cancellations to individual measures as a retreat. The changes are experimental and temporary - it's inevitable and desirable that some of them are going to get binned or altered.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, but in the here and now, is it your position > that those with genuine urgent needs, as well as > requiring access to emergency services should, > effectively, be sacrificed in the interests of a > long-term agenda to reduce car usage and > ownership? Not forgetting that the overriding > rationale of that agenda is to reduce pollution to > produce a healthier environment? You can't improve the lives of those with "genuine, urgent needs" without getting rid of the people whose journeys are not necessary. You could make every road in London a dual carriageway and there would still be traffic jams and pollution- demand for free unrestricted road space is always going to exceed supply in London. Everyone - residents, businesses and travellers - is going to have to change (and already is changing) the way they get around and organise things to some degree. That's not going to come without some short term inconvenience and friction.

Everyone thinks their own journey is urgent and necessary. London is overrun with people making urgent and necessary car journeys. That's the whole problem. If people only really drove when it was urgent and necessary to do so, we wouldn't need any of this shit in the first place.

No, no, no, you don't need to read any of that. All you need is "common sense" and "stands to reason" and some half-remembered stuff about Archimedes and Newton. We're sick of all these experts and their so-called understanding and experience.