One (part of) Dulwich

[Rockets]

11 hours ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

That's why traffic across the whole area actually fell.

Well, it didn't did it?

Just to remind you (again) the council did not monitor the whole area as major displacement routes like Underhill. Crystal Palace and Barry Road were not monitored. So any claims of traffic falling across the whole area is a wildly inaccurate falsehood spun by the council and parrotted by the pro-LTN lobbyists.

And as Cllr McAsh famously wrote on his blog LTNs cannot be considered a success if they do not reduce traffic for everyone. And they haven't- so by his own bar they are a failure.

12 hours ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

Some people who may have driven to pick up a coffee from the village, will now walk.

Hurrah, well all that momey spent, delays to emergency service and massive displacement was worth it then because a handful of people now walk to Gail's. P.S. you know the council's own data on that junction showed most journeys through that junction were part of longer journeys because it was one of the only east/west routes across the Dulwich Area? The congestion wasn't being caused by people going to the Village to buy coffee.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

9 hours ago, Rockets said:

And as Cllr McAsh famously wrote on his blog

Fair to say that fragments of years old blog posts by some councillor about road closures don't loom as large in the public consciousness as they do in the minds of some people on here. 

[Rockets]

Maybe I should have said Cllr McAsh foolishly wrote on his blog on LTNs 😉 .......this stuff can haunt you especially when you are both the local councillor championing those LTNs and now Cabinet Member for Clean Air, Streets and Waste - so his comments are very important. I suspect he is a little bit more politically savvy now as this did happen around the time of some other politically naïve decisions and actions. 

Accountability needs to be high on any politicians' radar and if you say something that doesn't materialise surely you have a moral obligation to address it? What he promised has not materialised - is everyone supposed to just turn and blind eye and pretend it doesn't matter. This is why politicians of all persuasions have such an awful reputation and trust in politics is at an all-time low - with party and politics being put before people.

[Glemham]

The latest from the great works underway at Vanity Square - aka the Village junction. The photo shows a rubbish site at the junction with a discarded bench which is reputed to have been recently outside the bookshop, and both brand new and expensive. Southwark has money to burn it seems. Will we ever find out the true costs involved in this vanity project which is supported only a minority of local residents?

[malumbu]

I'm really looking forward to the development being completed and hope to see some of you there.

[alice]

😂😂😂😂

meanwhile

[first mate]

Anyone know why the bench has been removed? Surely this will be reused? So much time and money being spent on reconfiguring this tiny space. As someone mentioned, Southwark clearly have money to throw around.

[Rockets]

You've got to hope it's being reused...it wasn't put in that long ago. The way it has been tossed with the rest of the rubbish suggests it is being thrown out.

 

Very, very bad look for the council if it is (especially given the noise they made about the reuse of the playground furniture installed there in the first lymp of tax payers' money invested in Dulwich Square).

 

P.S. When was the photo of the bench taken and was it in front of the hairdressers as if it was, it doesn't seem to be there now? 

 

P.P.S ignore that as having looked at the photo it isn't in front of the hairdressers - there are similar pallets and white bags out front of the hairdressers.

Edited September 8 by Rockets

[march46]

Lots of outrage without finding out the facts. It's highly likely the bench is being stored there until it is moved to a different location - but let's jump immediately to 'council is bad'. 🙄

[Rockets]

Well if they are storing it there for future use let's hope no-one decides to take it or it is well secured - I suspect it's worth a few bob and there are plenty of people driving around the area looking for scrap and if they see if I bet it will go.