Kurt_Lane

I used to climb Canobie Road daily on a fixie when I lived in Forest Hill and rarely enjoyed it! Haven’t been back to Canobie Road since.

I agree with this 👆🏻. Sometimes you just have to put convenience over other people’s objective safety. Yes, I may be forcing mothers with prams to walk in the road and blocking access for disabled people, but if I don’t park on a junction then I’d have to walk 20 meters farther with my kids. When will people stop being so selfish and start thinking of my children and not their own?

Do the lines extend more than 10 meters from the junction? It’s hard to find a junction in Dulwich that doesn’t have cars contravening HC r. 250 so hopefully all junctions get marking to stop dangerous parking.

I don’t - the same as for uninsured drivers, distracted drivers, or drunk drivers. All are operating motor vehicles illegally. Even if I was to identify those groups, I am not in a position to act on it. The police can and do enforce laws by stopping illegal e-bikes and uninsured drivers, drunk drivers, etc. I don’t see why you are not asking for enforcement of existing laws regarding illegal e-bikes and antisocial cycling.

I don’t see the logic, not at least because the lay public is not in a position to act differently because of it. As a comparative example, every day in the U.K. there are 300,000 uninsured car drivers - I cannot tell which cars are uninsured but I don’t suggest that all cars are banned because of it. Enforced of existing laws are required not additional laws. It is already easily enough to tell that someone on a bike, without a number plate, going 20 mph either on the flat or uphill, and without pedalling is riding an illegal motor vehicle. The issue is that the harm caused is low therefore the police resources provided to address the issue is low. If you want to address the antisocial aspect of the riders then this is a separate matter for the police that can be also addressed under existing legalisation. Writing to your MP or campaigning for addressing the issue through existing legislation would help make it a priority for the stretched police resources. More laws won’t solve anything if even current laws are not enforced.

It is a motor vehicle; it is not an electrically assisted pedal cycle.

No, that’s is not what I have suggested. At least some of the bikes in the photo are not going to be categorised as electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs) so they are treated as motor vehicles under the law, requiring tax and insurance. The regulations are clear in the link I provided. Motor vehicles include motor bikes and also E-bikes that don’t meet the EAPC classification. I feel that your efforts would be more productive in campaigning for e-bikes that are in fact motor vehicles to be confiscated which is already under the current power of the police.

At no point did I say that any of the bikes in your photo is a moped. The key is the full stop between my sentences - it looks like this “.”, by the way. There is no need to argue any of the points about what constitutes a bicycle: EAPC standards and legal requirements

This thread has descended into an absolute farce. And in answer, no. Is a moped a bike? No. If my grandmother had wheels, she also wouldn’t have been a bike. 15 pages of drivel, so far.

Agreed - it really looks lovely there in wet and dry weather but I also can’t wait to see people out in nice weather, mingling in the shared space. Real community asset.

Thanks! It still reads that bay markings are required. Possibly these have yet to be done locally but I hope they are added before penalties start being applied.

The parking zone does not appear to agree with the Southwark website as this new parking zone does not have bays. Notably, it also does not have big entry signs that older zones appear to have had. CPZ signs Our newest controlled parking zones do not have entry signs or single yellow lines. In these areas, the kerb is either marked with: a parking bay, where you can park double yellow lines, where you cannot park This makes parking rules clearer and avoids the need for big entry signs. Other zones have at least one entry sign. The law says this sign only needs to be on one side of the road. We do not need to put entry signs between zones with the same hours.

There was a sea of parking fines on windscreens this morning on Calton Avenue.

Can they not put the mast in Dulwich Park? It shouldn’t be noticeable amongst trees and it would keep those dirty anti-vaxers away.

He looks similar to a guy who stole our parcels over a year ago. He was known to the police and had been on a spree of parcel thefts that day.