Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
It's to discourage kerbcrawlers, I believe.
So will they block every road with kerb crawlers with a bike stand?
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So will they block every road with kerb crawlers with a bike stand?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Ah, I saw them parked outside the Co-op at 10.00am. Do horses park?
Co-op?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
So will they block every road with kerb crawlers with a bike stand?
It's to encourage the kerbcrawlers to kerbcrawl on bicycles rather than in cars. The bike stand is there so they have somewhere safe to leave their bikes while they nip down Josephine Avenue to find a suitable front garden.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
So will they block every road with kerb crawlers with a bike stand?
It prevents a lot of through traffic.
My reason for believing it to be kerbcrawler related is an article in the local free 'paper with a photo of some residents by the bike stand explaining that it is designed to reduce kerbcrawling.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Ah.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
My initial thought on seeing that bikestand (which is taking ages to build!!!) is that it's surely going to be more dangerous to walk down at night with no traffic on it. I'd always choose BWL as it's better lit and has more people milling around but people who live on Leander and Apache etc need to walk down JA.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yep, I assumed it was some utilities company digging the road up, not a poxy bike stand being installed. Maybe they have to dig right down in order to cement it and chain it deep underground in case it gets nicked
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
So will they block every road with kerb crawlers with a bike stand?
Kerb peddlers!
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Yep, I assumed it was some utilities company digging the road up, not a poxy bike stand being installed. Maybe they have to dig right down in order to cement it and chain it deep underground in case it gets nicked
Well I suppose they did spend months digging up that junction and putting cables and pipelines down for sundry utility companies so it's probably a bit spaghetti-like below the surface but at the same time, if you wanted to build a bikestand you could do one in a morning.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
This is what my council tax pays for, so people in Josephine Avenue don't have prostitutes on their streets - they're just moved to another road
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
Clearly - either you lot don't have Lambeth Life in your toilet as reading matter/emergency toilet paper....
"PERSISTENT kerb crawlers in Lambeth could be publicly named in a bid to cut prostitution in the borough. Action to stop prostitutes, pimps and kerb crawlers using residential streets as brothels has already been taken in the borough. A blitz of sex workers, pimps and kerb crawlers has seen a number of prostitutes banned from parts of Lambeth. And a street notorious for attracting kerb crawlers has been blocked up, making it harder for men to pick up prostitutes for sex. Residents living on Josephine Avenue hope it will transform their lives. One, Tim Sutton, said people living on the road
faced daily harassment and antisocial behaviour because of prostitution.
He said: “We get up in the morning and the place is covered in condoms. Single woman walking down the street get propositioned. There are
syringes on the floor, noise through the night and aggressive pimps and drug dealers – we want our street and community back.”
Continued on page 3 here:
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3BA72EA2-C9E7-4DE7-A8C2-8C0DF8AAB817/0/LL60artwork.pdf
Tim Sutton is a poster on these very boards and if you ever go to the art fair, he's the guy who does the pet portraits..
"PERSISTENT kerb crawlers in Lambeth could be publicly named in a bid to cut prostitution in the borough. Action to stop prostitutes, pimps and kerb crawlers using residential streets as brothels has already been taken in the borough. A blitz of sex workers, pimps and kerb crawlers has seen a number of prostitutes banned from parts of Lambeth. And a street notorious for attracting kerb crawlers has been blocked up, making it harder for men to pick up prostitutes for sex. Residents living on Josephine Avenue hope it will transform their lives. One, Tim Sutton, said people living on the road
faced daily harassment and antisocial behaviour because of prostitution.
He said: “We get up in the morning and the place is covered in condoms. Single woman walking down the street get propositioned. There are
syringes on the floor, noise through the night and aggressive pimps and drug dealers – we want our street and community back.”
Continued on page 3 here:
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3BA72EA2-C9E7-4DE7-A8C2-8C0DF8AAB817/0/LL60artwork.pdf
Tim Sutton is a poster on these very boards and if you ever go to the art fair, he's the guy who does the pet portraits..
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Clearly - either you lot don't have Lambeth Life in your toilet as reading matter/emergency toilet paper....
Well at least the latter is good for something
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I'd guess though that your chance of being attacked* is lower than your chance of being knocked down by a car on Josephine Avenue - particularly at the junction with BWL.
(* not seeking to belittle your feeling of uneasiness etc.)
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
But that's the junction that is still open!
Reading gaijingirl's quote, the best point in all this is that it might stop female residents getting propositioned.
Anyway, lets see which local street picks up the "business" or will the kerbcrawlers just drive down Leander and access JA that way?
And, whatever happened to the SLP's name and shame pages of kerbcrawlers complete with pics, names age and occupation? Was that deemed to be against human rights or not in the spirit of Winterval or something?
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Understood, but presumably blocking one end will have the effect of reducing total through traffic.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Very much so. I'm also expecting some loon to drive into the bikestand once it gets revealed to the world. Maybe they have to light it up or something as I nearly drove into the plastic barricades out of instinct.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
This morning, walking down the high street towards the tube station, I happened to catch sight of a steam train whistling across the lower of the two railway bridges. I only saw it for a fraction of a second but it looked like it was being hauled by an A4 Pacific.
A few moments later, just before I went into the tube station, I caught the smell of smoke and steam in the air.
This was a good start to the day.
A few moments later, just before I went into the tube station, I caught the smell of smoke and steam in the air.
This was a good start to the day.
I've been wondering what will happen to the site. I'd like an ice rink but will probably be something rubbish like a tesco metro.
clandestino
no llevar papel
A gigantic Poundland I reckon.
boohoo
No.
This is called living in the wrong bit of Brixton. The Herne Hill side have witnessed the wonders of the steam train, smells and sounds drifting through the better side of outer Brixton.
ajdown
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That would have been the Cathedrals Express, today's trip from Victoria to Oxford, indeed hauled by 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley. Should be coming back through just after 9pm tonight.
http://www.steamdreams.com/content/view/174/52/
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Presumably because that is decreed in the document known either as "the Brixton Streetscape Manual" or the "Brixtom Streetscape Design Guide" which also stipulates that everything gets painted that god-awful shade of "Midnight Blue".
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