I remember this. If you buy your home and want change you're a "gentrifier". If you rent your home and want change you're a "blow-in" and not a real resident.

Whats needed is regular covert ticketing that arrives in the post later (so you don't have a WhatsApp going around the parents group warning not to drive dangerously today), frequently enough that theres a daily fear and a ticket once a year isn't just accepted as a cost of driving.

Never done

Having done a few community speed watch in a fruitless attempt to get speed enforcement it's very much this. It's a good way of wearing down the people with the energy to kick up a fuss until they give up in frustration.

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As the "West Dulwich Action Group" launches a legal challenge against what they describe as a "rushed implementation of a cycleway" lets have a look at the history of this route...

Rosendale Road formed part of Quietly 7 which was announced in 2013 and was supposed to be built by 2016.....

Thats a bigger step, but Burbage is another road with most homes having multiple off street spaces and there is on street parking as well.

The infuriating thing was *there were plans* to put it through the green space.

Even a few parallel zebras would help here. Proper money - roundabout diet + route behind a shifted bus stop.

But there will never be an all ages network while barriers like this remain between safe route sections

If it was difficult or expensive it would be more understandable but making Turney Road safe and comfortable would be little more than removing some on-street parking from homes which nearly all have off street parking, many for more than 1 vehicle.

Also, when claims are made that consultations don't show much support - people get tired and disillusioned.

The kids for whom parents wanted a safe route to school in 2013 will have left home before this 2km bit of cycleway is completed.

A BlueSky thread by It's Simon, yeah? on Skyview The long saga of a cycle route through Dulwich Village has finally reached it’s ‘season finale’ as the new square is revealed. It’s a great new public space and a key enabler of cycling in the area....

A number of key people in WDAG spent years objecting to another part of QW7 in Dulwich Village

Here's an epic story for you:

QW7 as a whole? @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social plan is supposedly still to carry on and connect this route onwards to Gypsy Hill.

But @lb-southwark.bsky.social have abandoned plans for the missing links to connect it at either end of Lambeths scheme
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Somehow there should be a "connected network on safer streets". This is kind of rich coming from a group that fought to keep local streets busy and full of rat running traffic.

That is exactly what the Rosendale Cycleway and the LTN they had removed were creating.

Ghouls.

WDAG aren't just anti change apparently. They always claimed they'd got loads of ideas for what to do instead of the LTN they challenged but have been strangely silent since it was withdrawn.

Their alternative to this cycle route? Cyclists should use a road with no infra thats 800m to the east.

WDAG are claiming these measure are being rushed. This has been consulted on since 2013 FFS!

They're claiming TfL need to consult on the South Circ junction. But TfL had designs in 2020, and consulted on new designs in 24, published a report with revised design to be built this year.

The green section is built, it's the red section that WDAG are challenging.

Looking at what they said when they were challenging a local LTN is interesting. Then they said "residents want cycle lanes", Rosendale was "well used but unfinished" and hard to join as a result.

There have even been upgrades. Drivers can't stop themselves from driving into (or removing) wands. Theres a rat run across the route (that should be blocked) but they've added coloured tarmac which seems to have helped deal with inattentive drivers.

Since then Lambeth have been very slowly, section by section, building out a 2 way wand protected track...

By early 2020 there were approved, TfL funded, plans for a two way stepped track the length of Rosendale Road. It was a proper, safe, high quality scheme. It included a design for safe crossing of the A205 which TfL would deliver.

Covid. TfL funding Crisis. Funding withdrawn

This was approved by Lambeth, but at Statutory Consulation the POLICE raised that this was unsafe. There was not width to retain all parking, cycle lanes alongside, and high traffic volumes without unacceptable danger.

TfL called in and agreed - protection or filtering needed here.

Consultations started. Rosendale Road was busy - over 10k vehicles per day on parts of it. There was talk of filtering but local residents shouted a lot and Lambeth got cold feet. That was off the table. 2015-17 consultations resulted in plan for advisory cycle lanes.

Paint and Prayers....

As the "West Dulwich Action Group" launches a legal challenge against what they describe as a "rushed implementation of a cycleway" lets have a look at the history of this route...

Rosendale Road formed part of Quietly 7 which was announced in 2013 and was supposed to be built by 2016.....

They’re disingenuous arseholes aren’t they? Here they are saying residents want more cycleways.
And of course a “rushed” scheme that was announced in 2013. (Yes, Thirteen years ago!)

Yet another study finds that free public transport is not a significant driver of mode shift.

Me doing standup: 1. I don't think it's right to attack anyone for the way they look. but I will make an exception for Elon Musk. 2. Because in every photo I've ever seen of Elon Musk he looks like if you stuck a knife in to him... 3. ...he would just be cake.

Elon Musk.

From @privateeyenews.bsky.social, of course.

I just launched a greenway campaigners' toolkit, with lots of great stories about the impact of the traffic-free paths communities have delivered :) in the hopes it will inspire and empower more communities to push for these transformative traffic-free paths bsky.app/profile/laur...

Most watched show on Bbc2 that week with 9m. But at a time when EastEnders and Corrie were getting 25m+

Looking forward/not looking forward to new version.

I’m not sure popular is the right adjective here. (Remake of Threads in production). It’s an important film that stays with you. But it’s not a repeat watch if you enjoy sleeping at night.

That’s effectively the same thing - when I could do it the cost was same. But extra holiday didn’t reduce your pensionable pay, it was a “salary sacrifice” (d as me as childcare, private health and various other things.

Disgraceful, meanwhile just some £600 m for Active Travel throughout all of England.