I must have seen you coming Sparty, I moved out in 84 :o) I thought that most of the Tooting side was taken by the Azzapardi's and their extended family and had a SW postcode. I was on the Mitcham side with CR4 ..

WTID if he's played even that number of games at the level his record suggests (top level Germany) he'd have been found out before if he was a fraud. Which makes you wonder why didn't make it there and think that he must have a decent bit of talent.

OI @21:55 exactly - same here and most cyclists I know or have seen making comments on roads also use cars.

Happy birthday Mikey T.

I lived in Grenfell Rd after I got married in 1984 and the address was Mitcham with a CR4 postcode.

Good morning Wombles.

Spit: Tooting Junction is in Tooting, the boundary goes down the middle of Grenfell Road.

Reading the article about the trialist we had playing against Chelsea the other day Melvyn Lorenzon, he certainly talks himself up & is desperate to prove himself in English football, I would certainly hope that if he’s anywhere near as good as he claims to be then we get him signed up on a 2yr deal let him do his stuff to impress the big clubs & cash in on him big time come the winter transfer window or next summer

Although I do subscribe to the idea that a lasso is an acceptable tool to rope fucking electric scooter users and tie them to street furniture in a way that it will take them in excess of 45 minutes to untie.

OI, that used to be my father's argument. Every driver is a pedestrian.

Ginge, I wasn't suggesting undertaking on the (non-functional) bus lane. I was talking about driving at the most on the speed limit (which is a limit, not a target). If the traffic on to your right becomes slow, you can undertake (as others said). You CANNOT simply drive on the left and undertake someone, even if you are driving at the speed limit. If you do, BOTH drivers can be done for it. One for undertaking and the other for not driving according to the Highway Code [Link]

According to the government the R value is currently above 1 which puts us at level 4 on this right? [Link]

Spit - that’s what I thought; so you’d make a bit extra per fare but nowhere near enough to compensate for the smaller number of fares you can fit into a shift, yes?

More traffic up tamworth lane for people wanting to go to Norbury /Pollard hill. A4E big problem fares more expensive as taking longer means lost customers.for instance London bridge station to liverpool street station.,cabs have to go via tower bridge as london bridge closed putting an extra £5 or more on the meter set by TFL.yes I will always consider a set fare unless someone comes to my window and says uber are charging this price how much to That's a no no!😂

i don't get this idea that there are separate groups of people. I'm a motorist, I'm a cyclist, I'm a pedestrian, I'm a public transport user.

Russ Sutton have only just started and are ramping it up not even close to full mayhem. The school road closures twice a day are only just beginning. The roads are already massively more congested around here. Doesn’t help that some bright spark has got the pedestrian crossing, by the petrol station just beyond the Windsor castle junction set to change the second someone presses the button. No delay based on when last done etc. We’ve watched it change 3 or 4 times in a minute. Consistently not just a one off. The traffic at the junction is constantly backed up and that’s a major cause - on top of everyone being funnelled .

Spit - no problem in Commonside East. I just the rat-run alongside the railway that's affected. Slightly more traffic turning left at Cedars Aventer and that's it.

Spit - serious question; whilst all the road changes etc must be infuriating (and they clearly are, based on your posts!!), if a ride takes longer, doesn’t that mean the meter runs on for longer - or do you charge fixed fares for specific journeys?

Xmas is cancelled this year. Just like everything else :-( Need the Russians and Chinese to get their vaccine approved asap.

Well batted aussie, not sure I would of bowled the spinner last over with them needing 10 runs.

Covid must be rampant after 10pm 😂

Better order your turkey now for Xmas incase were all locked down again

The NE of England will be going into further lockdown measures from Friday including a 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants.

By the way, studies that I've read about apparently suggest that car drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists etc all tend to disobey road laws in about the same proportion.

As things currently stand, cyclists contribute more to road maintenance budgets than they extract due to the fact they're taxpayers but do minimal if any damage to the roads. But yeah, reintroducing road tax could enable them to pay proportionately to their cost, too.