Once more a "serious police incident" causes TFL to re-route the 35, 45 and 345 to run via Herne Hill instead of Coldharbour Lane.
Brixton: Four injured as gunshots fired in south London
I had an inkling something was amiss because I got a phone call about 11.20m am from a Jehovah's Witness who is grooming me - wanted to know if I was alright after this shooting in Coldharbour Lane this morning and would I like to come to her meeting on Wednesday. Making my excuses - I left the house to get the bus to Camberwell Lidl - only to find 8 people waiting at the bus stop (an unusual number for the Shakespeare Rd stop (Eastbound) on a Sunday morning.
I asked one of those fiddling with their TFL app on their phones & they said there was a diversion. Obviously TFL did not care to advise alternative services (there are none).
I decided to walk to Brixton big Tescos instead - and bring my shopping back on the P5 which is not affected.
Apparently Thameslink is affected though
Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter
Once upon at time The Sun - amplifying fellow newspapers, and also an NF member of the Prison Officers Association - had a headline alleging Brixton was worse than Precinct 46 The Bonx.
I took them to the Press Council and got a grudging retraction.
In a flight of fancy after this latest shooting stabbing and affray only a few yards form where I live - I decided to look up Precint 46 The Bronx - and wonder of wonders they have their own webpage
46th Precinct
www.nyc.gov
They have their statistics available on that page and they have a "Community Council" which meets monthly so community concern can be fed into the local police officers (you know, like the Police Consultative Group for Lambeth, which Lord Scarman had set up and Boris abolished when he was Mayor of London). Those were the days. Unfortunately Brixton is now obviously worse than Precinct 46 The Bronx - as a cursory check of the web page will show.
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Really I think our Metropolitan Police service now is reminiscent of that fine old TV series "Shoestring".