Cars May be Banned from London Royal Parks!

[Gojira]

cardigankid said:

Gojira said:

cardigankid said:

Who wants them there, shoot the dogs and solve the problem. They are just a massive health hazard. Parks should be for people.

You really are a miserable bd, aren't you?

Having read some of your other crap today, are you a Freeman of the Land?

I think you mean Freeman on the Land.

I'm saying Parks should be for people, not a dogs' toilet. They are going to ban cars, why not ban dogs? What do you disagree with?

No, you said " shoot the dogs and solve the problem" which is very different...

I don't have a problem with people walking their dogs in parks, so long as they keep them under control, and clean up after them.

That's despite the fact that I don't own a dog.

Fair cop on the of/on thing, though.

[okgo]

hyphen said:

Hello Lycra cyclist

Are you one of the ones who obeys the speed limits or the one who overtakes cars going at the 20mph limit on the downhills coz Strava.

A reduction in traffic though would be welcome, but remember they are not 'cutting through' they are going to a destination.

Edited by hyphen on Thursday 17th October 17:47

It is the definition of a rat run, the sort that gets eliminated elsewhere in London with one way roads, or even bollards. And it's almost all school run traffic, which usually itself is very short pointless journeys, I hope I live long enough to see them ban cars, or make it hard to use just to get from kingston to Richmond/Roehampton.

I can assure you that very few cars obey the 20mph limit. https://twitter.com/RichmondCycling/status/8401144...

[cardigankid]

Gojira said:

No, you said " shoot the dogs and solve the problem" which is very different...

I don't have a problem with people walking their dogs in parks, so long as they keep them under control, and clean up after them.

That's despite the fact that I don't own a dog.

Fair cop on the of/on thing, though.

OK, in Victorian times parks were laid out for the benefit of the masses who came to live in expanding cities. They were on a scale to suit, not the cramped postage stamp playgrounds which pass for parks today. In those days, only aristocrats walked their racing greyhounds on the streets, and if they lifted their legs or crapped in the street, it didn’t matter, there was so much horsest around. That is now gone, and the Marquess of Whatever doesn't exercise his ponies or greyhounds in Hyde Park. All this dog-owner malarkey came from people copying what they took for their betters, not because Britain is a uniquely dog loving culture. Personally I don't want fleas, ticks and other unpleasantness living in my house, but that is a personal choice.

Now every pensioner and others has got a dog to walk, very few of them bother to pick up the results, and they dump everywhere, so the Parks cannot be used for the purpose their creators intended.

So, bluntly, if the owner lets that happen, when kids are around who are supposed to benefit from these open spaces, but who can pick up the most vile infections from canine faeces, shoot the dogs. That will teach the selfish old scum a lesson. Don’t you agree?

I'm saying shoot them, it's a little tongue in cheek, but IMHO that is the real problem in Parks and it ought to be dealt with.

Edited by cardigankid on Saturday 19th October 09:31

[okgo]

I would say that most people do pick up their crap, I can't remember the last time I saw dogst on the floor.

[coldel]

When Richmond Park closes its gates early it forces all the thru traffic out onto the south circular and surrounding roads which then become a snarled up gridlock. Anyone that has been to Richmond Park knows that its fecking huge, you can walk a few minutes and be well away from the roads that go around its circumference, you would never know the cars are there. Closing access down all day, absolutely mental idea.

[Kuji]

cardigankid said:

Chris32345 said:

They should ban a lot of private cars around parts of London and just allow transport and commercial stuff like deliverys

And taxis and trucks and buses and diesel trains, all of which are far more noxious than private cars. Mark my word, they will get to the point where people say ‘fk this’ and vote with their feet.

They should pedestrianise the roads closest to the major train and rail stations during peak commuter time. The footpaths are too crowded already and the cyclists can easily use alternative routes or one of the existing cycling highways without any real inconvenience.

[sisu]

I take the tube most of the time during the week as it is awful. One of the joys of Mews living is having a two car garage in the heart of London.
The worse the traffic has become the more innappropriate the car has become ..
Sunday mornings I blat somewhere to get a coffee or out to Stratford to do give it an Italian tune up.

[AMG Merc]

sisu said:

I take the tube most of the time during the week as it is awful. One of the joys of Mews living is having a two car garage in the heart of London.
The worse the traffic has become the more innappropriate the car has become ..
Sunday mornings I blat somewhere to get a coffee or out to Stratford to do give it an Italian tune up.

[kuro]

AMG Merc said:

sisu said:

I take the tube most of the time during the week as it is awful. One of the joys of Mews living is having a two car garage in the heart of London.
The worse the traffic has become the more innappropriate the car has become ..
Sunday mornings I blat somewhere to get a coffee or out to Stratford to do give it an Italian tune up.

Is Stratford a city dwellers idea of a nice morning drive in the countryside?

Edited by kuro on Sunday 2nd February 09:50