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Nanker Phelge said:
That's where the accident was....
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It was still taped off a half seven. They hadn't moved the bike, which must have been knocked quite some distance. And there was a medic bag in the middle of the road that had presumably been left as evidence too. So god knows what happened there, but it didn't look good. Hope the driver makes it through.
 
bike did fly a long way. I was there as it happened. I heard it. I first thought it was pedestrian hit because I didn't see the bike, then saw the guy on the floor with a helmet on...

...bike was thrown down perran road
 
I wonder if there were similar scenes outside Hootenanny when Murray won. :hmm:

Fingers was livestreaming that moped burning rubber a little while ago!
 
I'm back at the Railway on Friday. Come along!

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Friday 15th July 2016, DJ night at the Railway, Station Rise, Tulse Hill, London SE27, with DJs playing ska, electro, indie, punk, rock'n'roll, big band, rockabilly and skiffle
 
They have replaced the street light lamps on my street with led-type ones. Gone is the ugly, excessively bright yellow light. So much nicer and less invasive!
 
Crap Tesco, which was supposed to have the work on it finished in July, is still being worked on. Good.
 
Does anyone know what they're doing under the bridge by avenue park road? Looks like major pavement-road redesign.
 
Maharani said:
Does anyone know what they're doing under the bridge by avenue park road? Looks like major pavement-road redesign.
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In that consultation thing online, TONS of people complained about the danger of crossing the road there (crossing APR whilst walking up Norwood Road) as cars can take that blind bend very fast and there's heavy pedestrian traffic. Subsequently there was a proposed document of changes (which I don't think included improvements to that bend actually) but maybe the comments were taken into account anyway and they're doing something about it? It really is very dangerous. If that is the case, it gives me hope that they do something at the end of my road which is similarly dangerous, and was similarly flagged up but not responded to in the proposed document of changes.
 
It's very tricky crossing there - especially with prams/wheelchairs etc as the dropped kerbs are not great either. Also you feel you need to really sprint it and keep everything crossed - must be scary if you are slower/older etc. Plus loads of kids from Elmgreen come down there daily. It definitely needs to be sorted out.
 
gaijingirl said:
It's very tricky crossing there - especially with prams/wheelchairs etc as the dropped kerbs are not great either. Also you feel you need to really sprint it and keep everything crossed - must be scary if you are slower/older etc. Plus loads of kids from Elmgreen come down there daily. It definitely needs to be sorted out.
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Yeah they always walk in the road down too and I hear drivers constantly shouting at them!
 
Where Palace Road meets Leigham Vale, there's a crossing point with a drain right by the dropped kerb. Many the buggy wheel or scooter wheel that I've had trapped there. And then people come flying round the corner unsighted due to that hairpin bend.

I turned 40 last week. I used to be a grumpy young man, trying to fight against injustices with one u75 post at a time, I'm now a grumpy old man, ready to become an activist.
 
Smick said:
Where Palace Road meets Leigham Vale, there's a crossing point with a drain right by the dropped kerb. Many the buggy wheel or scooter wheel that I've had trapped there. And then people come flying round the corner unsighted due to that hairpin bend.

I turned 40 last week. I used to be a grumpy young man, trying to fight against injustices with one u75 post at a time, I'm now a grumpy old man, ready to become an activist.
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That's the other junction I referred to above. On the same consultation document (the online thing I posted ages ago)... there are many many complaints about that junction. It's terrible. Many many people crossing from LV onto PR do not take into account that they can be run over from 3 different directions there! Most people do not realise that cars coming down LV will turn left (and go back in more or less the same direction up PR) around the hairpin bend. It's quite scary.

Also when traffic queues down PR to get through the junction with Norwood Road, I've seen plenty of cars resort to driving down the wrong side of the road in order to turn right onto LV (so avoiding queuing). Which again is quite scary when you're trying to cross the road and suddenly you can be run over from FOUR different directions.

Cycling down LV towards Norwood Road is really scary there too as lots of cars drive at enormous speed down PR to try and make the lights and don't stop/don't realise they have to stop. I had a *very* close shave there once - so close the driver even stopped to apologise and check I was ok. I would have probably been a goner had she hit me. Sometimes you have people like that speeding down PR and at the same time people coming in the opposite direction turning right into PR from LV (having come from the main junction with Norwood Road) and that's very scary as often neither car realises that there is a junction with Leigham Vale and both think they have right of way.

I'm not sure what the answer is tbh - it's just a shitty shitty junction.
 
gaijingirl said:
That's the other junction I referred to above. On the same consultation document (the online thing I posted ages ago)... there are many many complaints about that junction. It's terrible. Many many people crossing from LV onto PR do not take into account that they can be run over from 3 different directions there! Most people do not realise that cars coming down LV will turn left (and go back in more or less the same direction up PR) around the hairpin bend. It's quite scary.

Also when traffic queues down PR to get through the junction with Norwood Road, I've seen plenty of cars resort to driving down the wrong side of the road in order to turn right onto LV (so avoiding queuing). Which again is quite scary when you're trying to cross the road and suddenly you can be run over from FOUR different directions.

Cycling down LV towards Norwood Road is really scary there too as lots of cars drive at enormous speed down PR to try and make the lights and don't stop/don't realise they have to stop. I had a *very* close shave there once - so close the driver even stopped to apologise and check I was ok. I would have probably been a goner had she hit me. Sometimes you have people like that speeding down PR and at the same time people coming in the opposite direction turning right into PR from LV (having come from the main junction with Norwood Road) and that's very scary as often neither car realises that there is a junction with Leigham Vale and both think they have right of way.

I'm not sure what the answer is tbh - it's just a shitty shitty junction.
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We know all the problems gg. Give us the job, the money and the time. That's the answer!
 
The formerly part-worn tyre/ used car dealer opposite the THH is now a van rental place. It's amazing how often businesses come and go there. I wonder if the site is only licensed to host vehicle-related ventures? I don't think I've ever seen anything other than that in the 15+ years I've been here.
 
T & P said:
The formerly part-worn tyre/ used car dealer opposite the THH is now a van rental place. It's amazing how often businesses come and go there. I wonder if the site is only licensed to host vehicle-related ventures? I don't think I've ever seen anything other than that in the 15+ years I've been here.
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Do they haz jobs - seriously as a buyer I wouldn't trust as it changes hands every 10-18 months. buyer beware.
 
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alfajobrob said:
Do they haz jobs - seriously as a buyer I wouldn't trust as it changes hands every 10-18 months. DO NOT TRUST
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Well I wouldn't judge a business based on who'd been a tenant at the site previously. Having said that, the last few ventures there all listed mobile phone numbers as their main business contact, which doesn't inspire much confidence.

I guess the landlord rents it cheap and somehow makes a profit, though I can't imagine how selling the plot wouldn't be more profitable. It seems like a waste of land anyway. As well as the building there is sizeable back 'garden' as well.
 
When i have needed to hire a van in the past, I've gone to the place down the Barry Road in dulwich. It's good to have somewhere more local. Hopefully they take returns on a Sunday.
 
Greenz, the seven day adventurists food gaff is getting a refurb....dunno if it's coming back with the adventurers on board or something new....
 
Nanker Phelge said:
Greenz, the seven day adventurists food gaff is getting a refurb....dunno if it's coming back with the adventurers on board or something new....
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Most of the things I like about restaurants are shunned by Greenz. Alcohol, meat, Saturdays. It's really not for me.
 
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In perhaps the least exciting news ever posted in this thread, it is cheaper at the moment at the Co-Op to buy two bottles of Flash spray bleach than to buy just one :confused:
 
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