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#parklikeanidiot Just because it has a tiny notice saying @RoyalMail @RoyalMailHelp deliveries being made, doesn’t make it fine for your operative to park so dangerously. Across the pavement, on a zebra crossing… Outside Westcombe Hill post office SE3. Not the 1st time either.

@rval_ms @bt_uk

@bt_uk please can you explain why my Internet is down when I have payed £££ for cellular backup? Have an important party can no device can play music

@TheMurkyDepths further west through to Charlton & new developments there. It’s too short otherwise & allows better arrangements at Woolwich. It’ll never be a proper BRT, more like East London Transit which was basically some bus priority at juncs & special livery buses. Could be good tho

@TheMurkyDepths Lots of thoughts on this. Not least the 90s scheme inspired me to path of transport planning / TfL (before pubs obvs!). There’s precedent of express bus from T.mead to Woolwich. (The original 472, with 272 as the stopper). But I think for the case to work it’ll have to go 🧵

TfL working on business case for Bus Rapid Transit between Woolwich and Thamesmead fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/07/27/rap… 🪙 £23 million allocated 🚌Links Superloop routes. 🏠Passes development sites bringing thousands of homes.

@Royal_Greenwich I’ve been asking for at least 8 years for a school street(s) outside Timbercroft primary. I’ll not hold my breath for its introduction. @PlumCommonCllrs

It's #CleanAirDay ☁️ We're tackling pollution and promoting greener travel through various initiatives: 🏫 Supporting School Streets and encouraging children and young people to walk, cycle and scoot 🔋 Installing more EV charging points 🚗Expanding our car clubs

@MyWoolwich @Sarkies_Proxy @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon @clarionuk @GreenGoddessPub In the same way google maps knows how busy places / roads are by how many phones are in the area (and how much they move). Travel data is used to see where and when demand is on the network. We’re monitored every which way, so hardly surprising if some data is identifiable.

@Redbus51 @Sarkies_Proxy @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon @clarionuk @GreenGoddessPub For Wi-Fi, agreed - see pic. Can only opt out however by turning your Wi-Fi off. Your Oyster card however is directly linked to your and your travelling - therefore personally identifiable.

Do something useful in your last 4 years @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon and get this technology installed in every central (and select) London underground station. #SadiqKhan #FacialRecognition

@MyWoolwich @Sarkies_Proxy @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon @clarionuk You know that by ‘monitoring’ movements it helps match demand to services. TfL and its predecessors have done that for years in different ways.

@Sarkies_Proxy @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon As per @clarionuk…. There are over 943k CCTV Cameras in London, meaning there is 1 CCTV camera for every 10 people in the capital. You are likely to be captured on London CCTV up to 70 times per day. Furthermore TFL monitors your movements on the network. Privacy. Lol

Hey @coopuk maybe you can make this make sense…. Too many offers, not enough stock = confused customers and defiant staff. The very small print suggests options available- but the till didn’t take it. Store supervisor reckoned it was only what’s in the picture. ?

@TheMurkyDepths It was solid at 3pm when I went over. Grim, and the future is worse besides.

Very heavy Kent-bound traffic tonight on A102 and a2. Many miles. Vehicles leaving queues to local roads in Greenwich to avoid. A foretaste of what will happen post Silvertown tunnel opening. TfLs own revised modelling shows more PM southbound traffic.

@MyWoolwich Do we? Why? We need a #GeneralElectionNow

Need a new #MayorOfLondon too

Hey @thameswater - water gone off in SE18 2 - appears to be out street at least, probably wider.

@TheMurkyDepths Then there were the people who move in near bus stops/garages/stands/routes who’d campaign against them for being noise/polluting/harming them in some way. Never mind the 1000s who use the route. Why should I buy curtains…

@TheMurkyDepths In my former life at TfL I spent many years ‘dealing’ with the people of Paddington - mitigation of xrail works. To hear them, you’d think they were in a Cotswold village.

I'd love to look out at it Just get some curtains? It's inner London ffs

@5tewartChristie @Billo20Four7 Exactly! I did an foi on this a while back and discovered what their was or more accurately wasn’t. No wonder the Boroughs road network is so far behind others for safety, equality and reduced car dominance.

@Redbus51 @Billo20Four7 I find it difficult to comprehend. Any business operating like that would be caught out very quickly.

Thursday sounds like a barrel of laughs at the local council. At least we know for certain where we stand on the state of the roads and footpaths now.

@Billo20Four7 @5tewartChristie If it’s like other street works then there’s no impact assessment made (severity then open to interpretation). And no records either. It’s purely a local decision about what happens, where and when. It’s completely barmy.

@5tewartChristie It does doesn't it. I got fed up after reporting three large potholes in the bus lane of Woolwich New Road. They did one (after three months) & didn't do the other two which were just as large & just feet away. That took another two months. Tried to blame TfL at one point. Barmy.

@5tewartChristie @Billo20Four7 They are referring, without naming, to LIP funding I think. Which many other boroughs used for more exciting/pragmatic/strategic schemes - rather than solely resurfacing. Managed decline doesn’t include more bollards tho. Plenty still in the kitty for them!

@Billo20Four7 This boggles the mind. How on earth were they managing things when they *did* have the money? Pot[hole] luck and who shouts the loudest I expect.

Why has this been allowed to happen, for works on the old toilets? (Bus stop U, Beresford Square). The bus stop needs to be closed, or at least the layby filled in, otherwise there’s going to be a series incident. The desire line is strong here. @Royal_Greenwich

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@TheMurkyDepths It’s always been a really poorly designed bus stop. It ought to be closed while the works are there. Desire line for many is xrail - can’t see many walking all the way round the railings by the shops.

Worksite being set up in Woolwich. Looks like work on major Woolwich town centre project covering much of the area is starting in earnest fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2023/09/04/woo…

@Royal_Greenwich @thameswater But it’s already been closed a week. So is it 10 more days?

We have placed an emergency road closure at Garland Road in Plumstead to facilitate @thameswater works. Signs will be in place directed traffic, with work expected to take no more than 10 days.