The Brixton Hill River

[sonik]

Well no buses up or down the hill for a few days so looks like i'll have to add another 15 minutes to my journey time!

Ahh well the walking will be good for me i guess....at least our flat has water. Is anyone without?

 

[Allan]

I wondered why Tulse Hill had a long traffic jam this morning. At least now we have a decent bus service instead of just the poxy 2/432!

 

[Donna Ferentes]

In Kiev (and other Ukranian and Russian cities) it is customary to flag down drivers at random and offer them a fare to take you with them into town. I wonder if we should start up a similar custom in London?

 

[innit]

Grrr

I had the day off yesterday and stayed at home so I didn't plan for the extra 15 minutes trudging down the hill this morning.

Grrr some more cos they just said on the radio that it's likely to take another 2 days to fix.

Does anyone know if us top-of-the-hill set could walk up towards Streatham and get the bus - or would that take even longer?

 

[Bob]

In Kiev (and other Ukranian and Russian cities) it is customary to flag down drivers at random and offer them a fare to take you with them into town. I wonder if we should start up a similar custom in London?

Not sure if you've noticed but it's the same late at night in London - if you do that you tend to get minicabs.

Apart from the other night when I did it and a man stopped in his car, I leant in and asked him how much to Brixton. He goes 'Oh, I'm not a cab....', looked a bit disappoited, and drives off.

Luckily the nightbus came before I got arrested for propositioing...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Not sure if you've noticed but it's the same late at night in London

Eh? No, I've certainly not noticed.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

IIRC Last time they diverted all the buses up Effra Road/Tulse Hill then back along Christchurch Road

Don't know why they can't divert buses from Tulse Hill (going towards Brixton) onto Brixton Water Lane and then on to the Hill. They've done that before.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Workmen told me this evening it's going to take 'at least three days' to fix. I'm no expert but it looks like it's only one sodding pipe - how long can it take to fix one pipe? Surely they can do that overnight. But no, they're going to have five well-trained workers stand guard over a pump for the next 72 hours while the bosses come up with ludicrous estimates for the council. Bring in the Chinese I say

Last time it happened it took TWO WEEKS. I asked the guys last night when it should be finished. They said "hopefully Sunday". I think they're being optimistic. I went to bed with the sound of drills in my head as they're working through the night.

What you might also not have noticed is there is another bit of the road adjacent to the hole their digging that's totally buckled, so that's going to have to be fixed as well.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Does anyone know if us top-of-the-hill set could walk up towards Streatham and get the bus - or would that take even longer?

Would take longer. One of the bar staff in the Windmill who lives in Streatham got bus to work yesterday and it took her an hour

Wouldn't imagine even diverting down King's Avenue will make much difference either.

 

[hayduke]

In Kiev (and other Ukranian and Russian cities) it is customary to flag down drivers at random and offer them a fare to take you with them into town. I wonder if we should start up a similar custom in London?

I know I love that. I spent two months in Moscow one summer in the 90s and after drunken nights out in the city centre I'd flag down a car heading back to my digs near Sokolniki. I only know a few words in Russian and so spent each journey pretending I was asleep so as not to reveal I was a foreigner.

In fact almost everywhere non-Western you can flag down cars in the street and haggle. How safe this is depends on the country and your balls-of-steel quota. Most of the time it's a pretty sociable way to make a journey.

I often wish London was the same.

Sorry. Well off topic.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I thought it was really nice walking down the hill with everyone this morning.. people were really chatty

 

[twistedAM]

Would take longer. One of the bar staff in the Windmill who lives in Streatham got bus to work yesterday and it took her an hour

Wouldn't imagine even diverting down King's Avenue will make much difference either.

yeah that's cos she didn't know where she was going and didn't know how to get acroos from Tulse to Brixton ill...seems that all buses are getting diverted along the south Circular via Tulse Hill so maybe it would be an idea to walk up there and grab a bus outside the Crown & Sceptre OR just walk...it's lovely without the traffic

 

[Pieface]

Does anyone know if us top-of-the-hill set could walk up towards Streatham and get the bus - or would that take even longer?

I'd walk it - would take so much longer negotiating the traffic on a bus.

Got serious shadenfreude on tuesday night - Leander road between Josephine av and Elm Park was chokka with folk honking horns and having real problems if they had a massive 4x4 to drive

I skipped past, trilling with glee, swinging my bag round my head

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yeah that's cos she didn't know where she was going and didn't know how to get acroos from Tulse to Brixton ill...seems that all buses are getting diverted along the south Circular via Tulse Hill so maybe it would be an idea to walk up there and grab a bus outside the Crown & Sceptre OR just walk...it's lovely without the traffic

Yeah I know, but even so, someone said it took them 45 minutes to get to the tube yesterday from Streatham.

Think I'll stick with walking to the tube, need the exercise

 

[christonabike]

I like my fifteen minute stroll down the hill in the morning, clears the head and is a chance to have a spliff on the way

Bit of a bugger on the way home, I normally get the bus




Oh yeah, there was a traffic jam on Elm Park last night, new one on me, there's something funny about angry car-drivers, they couldn't do owt about it

 

[Disco Squirrel]

Does anyone know what the current situation is? Is Brixton Hill still closed? Will need to take another route home if it is.

Cheers

 

[Allan]

Yes.

This is the Tulse Hill popular front. We have your busses. Pay us 10 thousand million billion squintillion pounds and 37p or the 133 gets it!

 

[gaijingirl]

Yes.

This is the Tulse Hill popular front. We have your busses. Pay us 10 thousand million billion squintillion pounds and 37p or the 133 gets it!

All major forms of payment accepted including postage stamps...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There's a deli next to Barons Court Tube station which has a notice on the door saying:

We accept cash or cheques.

You don't say!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I like my fifteen minute stroll down the hill in the morning, clears the head and is a chance to have a spliff on the way

Bit of a bugger on the way home, I normally get the bus




Oh yeah, there was a traffic jam on Elm Park last night, new one on me, there's something funny about angry car-drivers, they couldn't do owt about it

That's because the idiots were trying to get onto Brixton Hill and then they all had to reverse. Police obviously didn't have the sense to close the top half of Elm Park. They only need reverse back to Endymion though then they can get on to Hill

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I like my fifteen minute stroll down the hill in the morning, clears the head and is a chance to have a spliff on the way

Bit of a bugger on the way home, I normally get the bus




Oh yeah, there was a traffic jam on Elm Park last night, new one on me, there's something funny about angry car-drivers, they couldn't do owt about it

I got the bus and asked him to let me off outside HobCanning so I could walk through Brixton Water Lane I seemed to be the only person on the bus aware that there was a diversion

Cheers Twisted

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Does anyone know what the current situation is? Is Brixton Hill still closed? Will need to take another route home if it is.

Cheers

Of course it is.

There's a massive hole in the road and the other side of the road is totally buckled. Why will you have to find another route home? The buses will go up Tulse Hill and onto Christchurch Road, alternatively you can get off outside HobCanning and walk down Josephine or Water Lane if you live on the Hill

 

[christonabike]

I've just got a new coat and some new shoes, so I'm enjoying walking now!

 

[Disco Squirrel]

Of course it is.

There's a massive hole in the road and the other side of the road is totally buckled. Why will you have to find another route home? The buses will go up Tulse Hill and onto Christchurch Road, alternatively you can get off outside HobCanning and walk down Josephine or Water Lane if you live on the Hill

Well sorry but I haven't seen the massive hole in the road so I didn't know how bad it was.

I need to be home at a certain time so I can't risk taking the bus via Tulse Hill in case it takes too long.

Thanks anyway

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well sorry but I haven't seen the massive hole in the road so I didn't know how bad it was.

I need to be home at a certain time so I can't risk taking the bus via Tulse Hill in case it takes too long.

Thanks anyway

Do you live on the Hill itself?

There's always jogging Wouldn't dream of it myself though

 

[supercity]

Funnily enough, I had a note through the door the other week from Thames Water, asking if I'd had problems with my supply as they were trying to track down a local problem.

My guess is that they've found it now.

 

[newbie]

I was watching the fun today. All the marvelous people (well, guys) who quite clearly think the road closed notices don't apply to them go hurtling up the hill far too fast, meet JCB, stop and start shouting at the guys in the flouro jackets. Who just grin back

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was watching the fun today. All the marvelous people (well, guys) who quite clearly think the road closed notices don't apply to them go hurtling up the hill far too fast, meet JCB, stop and start shouting at the guys in the flouro jackets. Who just grin back

There's no way that's going to be finished by Sunday. There are now THREE holes instead of one. Maybe they're joining them up to have one massive hole. That's not even including the buckled pavement on the other side of the road.

 

[Pieface]

And they seem to be taking up a chunk of the road downhill from the hole now!

Is this going to be a fiasco of Tube escalator proportions??

Only one lane open at a time for about 3 years......

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

And they seem to be taking up a chunk of the road downhill from the hole now!

Is this going to be a fiasco of Tube escalator proportions??

Only one lane open at a time for about 3 years......

That's what I was talking about. There's 3 holes. When this happened last time there was one MASSIVE hole. I reckon they're probably joining the 3 of them up.

Last time they finished the job in TWO WEEKS