Brixton news, rumour and general chat - October 2016

[Winot]

Severe overcrowding Brixton tube right now.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Severe overcrowding Brixton tube right now.

I've not used the tube for work for a while now, how is generally now the lifts are all back up and running? IS victoria still a nightmare for changing during rush hour or have works completed there too?

 

[Winot]

I've not used the tube for work for a while now, how is generally now the lifts are all back up and running? IS victoria still a nightmare for changing during rush hour or have works completed there too?

I usually cycle to work so not sure. Maybe this morning was normal!

 

[shakespearegirl]

I've not used the tube for work for a while now, how is generally now the lifts are all back up and running? IS victoria still a nightmare for changing during rush hour or have works completed there too?

If you are going through Brixton in morning rush hour you generally have to queue to get into the station. Lots of the gates have been broken recently so that has made it worse. They were opening the side gates to people with weekly+ oyster travel cards to help ease but this seems to have stopped.

 

[shakespearegirl]

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I usually cycle to work so not sure. Maybe this morning was normal!

Not far off normal.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

If you are going through Brixton in morning rush hour you generally have to queue to get into the station. Lots of the gates have been broken recently so that has made it worse. They were opening the side gates to people with weekly+ oyster travel cards to help ease but this seems to have stopped.

Hmm....that's a bummer. I was planning on going that way again because I'm sick of the thameslink journey. Unless I travel at 6.30, there's rarely a seat.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Once you get into the station its pretty easy to get a seat, the issue is getting into the station

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I was late today, so not down there til 9.30. It was fine. I guess busy is 8am???

 

[shakespearegirl]

8 - 9 is really busy. Really doesn't help when people stand on the steps taking photos of the crowds to put on Twitter

 

[aka]

8 - 9 is really busy. Really doesn't help when people stand on the steps taking photos of the crowds to put on Twitter

A huge amount of people get off the overground and walk round to the tube these days. They either 1: love the northern line or 2: work in Pimlico or 3: hate getting on the tube at Victoria.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I think the volume of people coming down from streatham has increased as well. Really hard to get on a bus down the hill in rush hour, a few years ago you might get 3 or 4 full ones not stopping, now they contiously fly by

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I came down about 8am this morning and it wasn't too bad...until I got to Stockwell were the Nothern Line was packed.

 

[shakespearegirl]

It was really quiet this morning.. Half term and there was no broken gates at the tube.. You are being lulled into a false sense of security...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

It was really quiet this morning.. Half term and there was no broken gates at the tube.. You are being lulled into a false sense of security...

I may go back to the thameslink.

 

[Ms T]

I start work at either 7.30, 9.30, 11 or 10pm so don't really have to deal with Tube hell. It used to be awful at Oxford Circus at 6pm but is alright now that Bond Street is open again.

 

[teuchter]

All this is a good illustration of why building loads of cycle lanes makes so much sense.

 

[editor]

Severe overcrowding Brixton tube right now.

And with the council keen to encourage the building of more and more private large housing developments, and the opening of yet more grazing, drinking and groovy, tourist-luring destinations in Brixton, it's going to keep on getting worse with no relief in sight.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

And with the council keen to encourage the building of more and more private large housing developments, and the opening of yet more grazing, drinking and groovy, tourist-luring destinations in Brixton, it's going to keep on getting worse with no relief in sight.

It's not just here though. It's across lots of London.

I remember years ago at 7am it would be pretty much just cleaners and tradesmen on the trains....now there's so many more people out early morning. I'm guessing people are just trying to avoid the masses, and in doing so submitting to longer days just to miss the push and shove of the commute.

 

[editor]

It's not just here though. It's across lots of London.

I remember years ago at 7am it would be pretty much just cleaners and tradesmen on the trains....now there's so many more people out early morning. I'm guessing people are just trying to avoid the masses, and in doing so submitting to longer days just to miss the push and shove of the commute.

Not so many areas have 'enjoyed' such an almighty surge in food/drink tourism though. Brixton on a Sunday night is busier than the Saturday nights of only 10 years ago

 

[rutabowa]

yep I've seen hackney change from 2002 until now and it's still not as extreme as the change in about the last 5 years that's happened in brixton, from what i can tell from my ever more rare visits.

 

[Mr Retro]

I'm guessing people are just trying to avoid the masses, and in doing so submitting to longer days just to miss the push and shove of the commute.

I get the 6:37 train from Wood Street in Walthamstow into Liverpool Street for this very reason. This morning I didn't get a seat. If I tried to get the 7:37 I wouldn't get on at all

 

[teuchter]

Basically we need to look into measures to suppress food and drink tourism between the hours of 7 and 9am.

 

[Manter]

Anyone know any mechanics in Brixton?

Refugee with experience from back home and good English wants work experience/ job shadowing. His accomodation is in Brixton.

Pm me if you have any ideas or can help.

 

[editor]

This looks bally wonderful chaps.

So fucking depressing Soho House to launch Fox Bar: an upmarket late night Brixton drinking den

 

[isvicthere?]

If you are going through Brixton in morning rush hour you generally have to queue to get into the station. Lots of the gates have been broken recently so that has made it worse. They were opening the side gates to people with weekly+ oyster travel cards to help ease but this seems to have stopped.

When you say "going through" Brixton, I bristle (probably pedantically) and think going from Brixton, surely!

 

[David Clapson]

freaking

That word is reserved for po-faced American religious fools. Please keep to the established Anglo-Saxon vocabulary.

 

[editor]

That word is reserved for po-faced American religious fools. Please keep to the established Anglo-Saxon vocabulary.

Fucking cunting then.

 

[shakespearegirl]

When you say "going through" Brixton, I bristle (probably pedantically) and think going from Brixton, surely!

But you may be going 'through Brixton' starting from Streatham and going to Oxford Circus.. I have no idea of the pedantically correct version

 

[snowy_again]

This looks bally wonderful chaps.

So fucking depressing Soho House to launch Fox Bar: an upmarket late night Brixton drinking den

Ten days ago you were going to 'give them a chance' & review them: Brixton food news: new restaurants, pop ups, cafes and more

 

[editor]

Ten days ago you were going to 'give them a chance' & review them: Brixton food news: new restaurants, pop ups, cafes and more

And then I read more about the venture and realised that I don't like the sound of them one little bit. It is OK to change your mind when you find our more about something, isn't it?

Or do you intend to flag up every subsequent change of mind I may make when new information is offered?