CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think you were all in danger of being arrested for looking working class.
That now comes under the generic heading of "inappropriate behaviour".
Loughborough Junction public space improvements - consultation begins
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That now comes under the generic heading of "inappropriate behaviour".
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I'm a Myatts Fields resident & I look forward to the time when they introduce a proper Dutch scheme to the whole of the Loughborough rd area - All residential streets access only to cars, with separated bike lanes on A roads. This current scheme is an improvement, but only a small step in the right direction.
concerned1
behind the small print
Well there was one on the 26th September and a Pop Park were there to consult people although once again barely anyone had been informed of it. Wonder what the results of that consultation was?
This was the event
This was the event
concerned1
behind the small print
"All residential streets access only to cars" so no deliveries, tradesmen, dust carts, recycling vehicles and all the rest? Just cars?
bimble
floofy
Very interesting. I know that article a while back, the one about how most London cyclists are white affluentish and male, was dismissed because based on a very limited study but it's easy to see why a lot of the people pictured in that demo are not going to feel that the pro- cycling changes are of benefit to them.
Angellic
Well-Known Member
I remember wandering through Rathgar Rd one Sunday evening over the summer. Some guys were loading or unloading large wooden crates. I was curious as they looked like the kind of boxes used to ship artworks. I received a very menacing stare from one guy that I felt was more than a bit threatening. I've also been mistaken for a policeman. Someone once muttered 'pigs' as I walked down Loughborough Rd with a friend.
bimble
floofy
That must be pretty grim. Sometimes I forget that being a girl can make the world a less aggressive & threatening place. I'm still surprised about this massive crack and guns raid story though, and that nobody seems to have heard a thing about it.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I have also found that age has a similar mellowing effect.
bimble
floofy
I'm curious about how that works, I mean how do you implement a thing like that? Is it by making all residential streets into dead ends or by some sort of iris recognition / bar code system?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Then there used to be the tradition of calling out "Batty boy" if the friends walking down the street were of the male sex but black and white.
I'm not quite sure why, but some of the very rough Jamaican guys seem to have Gaydar which would leave Peter Tatchell standing.
By making them all either dead ends or such that the only place you can reach is back where you came from.
Usually done by strategically bollarding roads, leaving gaps for bikes to get through.
Of course that also makes emergency service access difficult, so sometimes they put in a gate to which the emergency services have a key. Still delays them though.
critical1
All views expressed are definitely my own.
Yep and no charges being made or court cases being held... I went also to the NR thing today, I was greeted by 3 yes 3 police and one private security man. Looks like NR were expecting a riotous consultation...
bimble
floofy
That sounds a lot like what's happening here outside my window. I mean those orange road blocks were taken away eventually (the ones the emergency services were supposed to drag out of their way before continuing to the emergency) but given that the signage is supposed to be temporary they could well be intending to replace with bollards, or giant plant pots. Access only is what it is here now (Gordon Grove).
bimble
floofy
That's what I thought, sounds like quite a big story and not a ripple, odd.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Not really - it used to add to the danger and the satisfaction of "scoring" if you know what I mean.Blimey. And my rap song about big shiny cars was off message? Maybe you just want a bit more sympathy re how difficult it must be to make your way in the world these days as an oppressed white male person.
I wouldn't go as far as the guy in Little Shop of Horrors though (Steve Martin version).Dentists are definitely out for me.
Yes, precisely. If you look at what they've done, all the roads from Flaxman Rd to Kenbury St are now only reachable from CHL and the only way out from any of them is via CHL.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I was sorry to have missed all that. I went to the Libraries march, and had a wrong idea that the Network Rail thing finished at 4 pm - but it evidently actually finished at 2. I met a Network Rail and uniformed security guy and they dis agreed with how many people had attended when I asked.
The security guy said, not many - about 30 and there were some demonstrators. The other one who was Asian corrected him saying they had had 70.
Maybe 70 over 2 days? Or what do you think?
I would have loved to see the demo - just goes to show unless you have your finger on the pulse in Brixton time will pass you by.
bimble
floofy
I can see how that (access only) might be really appealing as an idea, on a leafy street full of children playing hopscotch and all but what I see here instead is loads of people trying to figure out how to get to and from an important industrial site.
Yes. Now think how much further along narrow residential roads the lorries have to go.
Also, if Coldharbour Lane is blocked for any reason, no-one is getting in or out of that area.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Talking of which has there been any contact regarding the industrial estate on Lilford Road and the other larger one on Paulet Road. Are they affected do you think?
bimble
floofy
I think Loughborough Junction is a total anomaly for central London.
We've got victorian houses (now on the market for a million quid) right up next to important industrial areas & car repair workshops, scrap metal dealers and welders, manufacturing businesses and woodworkers and things like this.
I love that about where I live.
Seems to me that this fact, the uniqueness of the place (obviously connected with the railway arches) was not taken into account at all one bit when this street closure idea was introduced.
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
This is editor's version of Dawn of the Dead my favourite Zombie film set in the shopping centre.
Had you seen that one on Youtube?
At any rate this is street theatre we can be proud of. As would local boy and opera producer Graham Vick
critical1
All views expressed are definitely my own.
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