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- 23 Feb 2018 10:02
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
TFL's own analysis shows that there are many, many KSIs every year in London where the person walking across the road is not at fault. So not only is the statement pretty appalling victim blaming, it is also just fundamentally incorrect.
- 22 Feb 2018 19:26
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Lewisham council tax rise
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6081
Re: Lewisham council tax rise
As far as Council Tax is concerned, you have been paying the same and getting less, because Central Government has consistently cut local government funding. So, if you want more, either the Government gives the council more or the council puts up council tax. At least Council Tax has a vague link t...
- 21 Feb 2018 09:43
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Lewisham council tax rise
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6081
Re: Lewisham council tax rise
Good - Long overdue
- 21 Feb 2018 09:41
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
Lawrie Park Rd shouldn't even be a thru route. Instead it is allowed to be a magnet for rat runners with no regard to those actually living in the surrounding streets. It wouldn't cost the boroughs any serious money to put a couple of bus sensitive bollards in halfway down. A Heretic writes...
- 20 Feb 2018 13:28
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
You should look up and contact Tom Kearney @comadad - He may have the info you're looking for. If not he'll certainly have already tried and have been through all the arguments why it hasn't been released (spoiler alert: Abellio will be hiding behind DPA legislation).
- 15 Feb 2018 11:01
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
Is there some common ground that we can find here? For example, do we agree that London has a problem with road safety? And do we agree that a major component of that problem is excessive speed? There is plenty of evidence to back up both of those positions. So if speed restrictions are not the answ...
- 14 Feb 2018 10:09
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
A timely study of the 20mph zone introduced in Bristol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-43050841 There is a debate to be had about which streets and roads are appropriate as 20mph zones. And I'm definitely not in favour of a blanket approach. But on any street on which people live and w...
- 13 Feb 2018 14:05
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 20 mph speed limits
- Replies: 59
- Views: 62724
Re: 20 mph speed limits
I'd be interested to see your evidence, John H
- 2 Feb 2018 16:32
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New houses proposed
- Replies: 32
- Views: 33764
Re: New houses proposed
If you believe stuart should sell his house to solve the housing problems then you also believe that Nigel should head to Raqqa with a rifle to solve the ISIS problem.
I know the concept of Government's actually delivering services is terribly unfashionable these days but this thread
I know the concept of Government's actually delivering services is terribly unfashionable these days but this thread
- 1 Feb 2018 08:17
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 2018 wish list
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35305
Re: 2018 wish list
Would you settle for a sub-Utopian start in 2018 of, say, making Sydenham Road traffic free on Summer Sundays between 10 & 6pm? Or to be more neighbourly, alternate with Penge? Tables, food and drink spilling across the road? Sounds good to me. Give people a taste of what could be and maybe the...
- 31 Jan 2018 08:51
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 2018 wish list
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35305
Re: 2018 wish list
Excellent. We all throw our rubbish over the fence into our neighbour's garden. To be honest Robin, I'm not being entirely serious about the impacts on FH. Obviously that would be very difficult and community objections would probably be enough to scupper any serious scheme in the real world. But i...
- 30 Jan 2018 17:28
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 2018 wish list
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35305
Re: 2018 wish list
Forest Hill is where the traffic is. Sorry, I should re-word that. Forest Hill is where Sydenham's through traffic should be. Have you ever tried driving along London Road or Dartmouth Road during the rush hour? Yes, it's awful. There are too many people making short journeys by car. That's why thr...
- 30 Jan 2018 11:24
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 2018 wish list
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35305
Re: 2018 wish list
Only the terminally lazy lose out. What's not to like? What's not to like is it remains a through road. Forest Hill is on the South Circular, that's where the traffic should be. Anything else is fiddling at the edges. There are only negative externalities for Sydenham from the through traffic, only...
- 30 Jan 2018 09:29
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 2018 wish list
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35305
Re: 2018 wish list
My fundamental wish would be that Sydenham Road wasn't a TFL through route. Been saying this for years. No through road except buses, access and cycles from the Greyhound roundabout to Dartmouth Rd. And no on street parking on the High St except disabled and time limited loading. Orford Rd in Walth...
- 27 Oct 2017 11:48
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: What *are* they doing to Dartmouth Road?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17679
Re: What *are* they doing to Dartmouth Road?
Yes, well said Stuart
There is inevitably going to be disruption when works are ongoing - But these changes are clearly for the better so people should try to be more patient.
There is inevitably going to be disruption when works are ongoing - But these changes are clearly for the better so people should try to be more patient.
- 14 Oct 2017 11:10
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Zanara Court
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32205
Re: Zanara Court
A Russian or Chinese one.
- 13 Oct 2017 11:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Zanara Court
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32205
Re: Zanara Court
£400K for a 1 bed flat in a middling town in Zone 3 borders
World's gone mad
World's gone mad
- 6 Oct 2017 09:54
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham too tatty for Caffe Nero
- Replies: 90
- Views: 73659
Re: Sydenham too tatty for Caffe Nero
It's also unbelievably naff. Café Nero's "offer" is like a coffee shop from the late 90s. Why would you want to welcome such mediocrity to the town?
- 25 Sep 2017 09:33
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Man killed by car in Mayow Road
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10821
Re: Man killed by car in Mayow Road
I'm happy to go out on a limb and predict that the driver was at fault and further predict that he/she will not be charged and/or prosecuted. If I'm wrong I'll come back on here and apologise. How about "Man killed after car driven into him"? That at least brings the human involvement into...
- 25 Sep 2017 08:58
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Man killed by car in Mayow Road
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10821
Re: Man killed by car in Mayow Road
Stop giving inanimate objects agency. It might help to de-normalise road violence. Language is important.