CPR Dave

Heh, well spotted.

Perhaps they would run into the issue that Lambeth had if they put it on the Rye - maybe they would need planning permission for change of use if more than 28 days of permitted development are used up for all the other events plus this. So perhaps emphasising that the two areas are distinct from each other actually helps the council.

I think the council could make more of that too. Sell a ticketed event with a local celebrity turning the lights on, followed by a street party with christmas carols and a christmas pop song cover band.

The wild animals are all still here nearly 600 years later though Jen!!

What about a bike store?

Are you talking about the two gray strips on the floor? There's plenty of space for a bicycle to avoid those assuming it was being ridden safely and with all due care and attention for a vehicle turning into a side road and, more importantly, turning into a school street. I can't see anything to complain about here for a careful cyclist.

Vehicle have to be the size they are now for safety reasons. It's all crumple zones to protect pedestrians, cyclists and their own passengers. Electric cars need to be even bigger to accommodate their half ton batteries.

Does increasing the operating hours of existing bus lanes outside rush hour really make much difference? I can see during eak traffic flow it would help, but at times when there is such little demand for buses that they drop hte number per hour dramatically, surely the rest of the traffic also drops off? I would also ban taxis, minicabs, coaches and bicycles from bus lanes and enforce that too though.

They inherited a very difficult situation. They fixed the roof. They then came up against Brexit, Covid 19 and the Ukraine War. Notwithstanding those headwinds they handed over to Labour an economy that had 2% inflation and the highest growth in GDP of all of the G7 countries. Back on topic, the fall of bus routes 40 and 12 happened when they were in power, I admit, but they had no power to stop those decisions.

" They've been in power just over a year " Yes, it's shocking just how quickly they've managed to stuff it up. It's appalling.

People have been setting off fireworks in London since the 1400s!!!

Well, I know a lot of people in London with pets and I've never heard any of them complain about fireworks. Maybe what's not ok is keeping timid animals in a metropolis when they are scared of the noises that come with normal city living.

They've decimate the economy. And the Labour Mayor has been in charge of London for nearly a decade. He has presided over London in a period in which, as that report states quite explicitly "London’s economy remains subdued in historic terms, with relatively low growth ... these factors will negatively affect current travel demand and prospects for future growth". Labour need to pull their fingers out and stop damaging the economy.

This is in one of the emails. "There’s also the very thorny issue that, regardless of our publication plans (especially if nothing specific has been decided), all of this stuff is FOI-able! So as soon as word gets out that these reports exist (something which I think for now hasn’t happened – crucially not reached those more prone to send FOIs) we may be forced to publish what we have. Hence (and this may be more for ) we may not want to mention anything at all (including the good news about Cycleways) until we’re ready to go out with the whole lot. UoW usually talk about this research at conferences over the summer but so far this hasn’t come to bite us and it could be framed as “their thing” even though it’s our research, money and data… But we also need to keep an eye on that side." WHO DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE WORKING FOR FFS??

Well, if isn't the fault of cyclists it must be the fault of the Labour Party who have presided over this devastating economic decline in London. "London’s economy remains subdued in historic terms, with relatively low growth. Cost-of-living pressures on discretionary spending are in turn affecting travel. Coupled with a continuing legacy of increased hybrid working after the pandemic, these factors will negatively affect current travel demand and prospects for future growth. However, jobs bounced back strongly from the pandemic, and, despite relatively pessimistic official forecasts, indices of consumer confidence are marginally positive"