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Tesco blocks ambulance
I am actually witnessing this as I type. Along St Margarets Road, there are three lorries, two of them Tesco, one Oddbins, and a large 4 x 4 parked on the double Yellow – One of the Tesco lorries is up by Around The World. I'm on a bus, and there's an ambulance trying to get through. The lorries have used up so much road, there are no passing spaces left. The result is that the bus is trying to get up onto the kerb, to allow the ambulance through. (0 replies)
FW: Tescos
"Nice" to know you're not alone.... Anyone else out there with more photos? I know several TV companies have programmes in the pipeline on this at the mo, so the more info we've got, the merrier! > From: awalden@##### > To: nhcannings > Subject: Tescos (0 replies)
Yet more Tesco fun
Today at 8.20 - Yet again, not a warden to be seen... (0 replies)
FW: Lorries outside Tesco's
It's something when even our local councillor is haranguing Tesco - let's see if anything happens! > From: benkhosa2 > To: simonchapman; julie.mcguckian@uk.tesco.com; nhcannings > Subject: RE: Fw: Lorries outside Tesco's > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:09:09 +0000 > > I was outside Tesco from about 12.10 to 12.30. I noticed one lorry in the > loading bay and one on the bus stop. (0 replies)
FW: Tesco deliveries
A continuing example of the problem in St Margarets, and the discrimination shown against small, local shops From: simonchapman@stm.demon.co.uk To: Cllr.BKhosa@richmond.gov.uk CC: nhcannings@hotmail.com Subject: Fw: Tesco deliveries Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:34:09 +0100 Ben, Today there has been a warden in Crown Road for practically the entire day. The high visibility of wardens in Crown Road prompted one resident to stick a warning notice to... (2 replies)
More pictures
Apparently, Tesco's take on the parking issue is that their agreement only extends to lorries with "Tesco" on the side. Which leads to this from a few days ago... (0 replies)
FW: Tesco deliveries
Personally, I think that Tesco is becoming just a little worried about the local backlash..... Subject: Tesco deliveries Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:55:59 +0100 From: Julie.McGuckian@uk.tesco.com To: nhcannings@hotmail.com Dear Mr Cannings I just wanted to email you to apologise for the issue today with regard to our milk delivery clashing with our fresh delivery. (1 reply)
FW: bus stop = tesco loading bay
On my return from my hols, I find this on my e-mail – I wonder what happened? From:Cllr Ben Khosa [mailto:Cllr.BKhosa@richmond.gov.uk] Sent: 14 August 2006 09:56 To: residents; simon chapman Cc: ann@stmgrts.org. (2 replies)
RE: bus stop = tesco loading bay
Fortunately, perhaps, I was out with my camera phone yesterday, and got some pictures of this - In fact, I have a whole load of pictures of illegal parking and illegal loading (out of hours, or on the double yellows or in the bus lane), and Simon's email spurred me to post them online - If you really think the problem was solved by sending a few traffic wardens in in the morning for a few weeks, take a look at http://mailspaces. (1 reply)
How should we solve the Tesco problem?
Unless the Council and Tesco takes drastic action, it is difficult to see an end to the Tesco loading/parking issue - If you could implement just one solution, what would you do. (1 reply)
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Less cross
Hurrah! TfL has confirmed a full review of the crossings at the A316/St Margarets Road junction - Perhaps they might even deign to talk to us, but I shan't hold my breath...
Still cross
The crossing situation is getting no better. I am pleased to say that one of my neighbours has reported a car that sped through the lights to the police. Let's hope they do something. I have e-mailed Geoff Pope the Lib Dem vice-chair for transport at the GLA. He wrote to me a while ago to give me the (somewhat useless) TfL response. I've also been in touch with the Rich and Twick so hopefully they can help as well.
What I want is seventeen new bus stops and fifteen...
What I want is seventeen new bus stops and fifteen new Load Bays.
Get a life, Nigel!
It's a comment that I have heard increasingly the older I have become. Is it just me, or has the world just become a more irritating place to live in? I am sure that there is a secret department out there devoted to doing things that get my goat.
Small world
These parking tickets are getting everywhere. I went to a show yesterday, and met someone who lives in St Margarets who, guess what, just got a parking ticket through the post! Doesn't that make me popular... Anyway, I just got the following e-mail from one of our ever helpful councillors (and unusually for me, I say that without even a trace of irony. God forbid, I am thinking that I might end up voting Liberal next time round...
When good ideas go bad
The council recently applied for permission to use CCTV images to issues parking tickets to people misusing the loading bay, bus stop and double yellow lines outside Tesco. This is a move that I have been advocating for some time, if only to show the true scale of the problem. Sadly, it has been implemented in rather an unfortunate way.
The Price of Protest
About 75p a day at the moment. Using my specially purchased laminator, I produced some rather fetching posters to hang around the offending crossings to solicit local opinion (actually, to get fellow protesters involved, which when you think about it is a whole different thing) It took me a little while to master how to tie them around the poles at the crossing (It's a real science.
Cross about the Crossing
My battles against bureaucracy in St Margarets are not limited to Tesco, although you could be forgiven for thinking so. My latest fight is again Transport for London (TfL) . There is a pedestrian crossing just near our house, just north of the A316. In theory, my son is of the age that he can walk to school by himself, which is not much use as he has a younger sister at the same school who needs an adult.
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