Brixton Central Square workwatch thread - post here if you see any work being done
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Kanda
Diving wanker
But the people working on the square don't start at 7am because I go past at 7.30/7.45am every day and there's no sign of them.
And if they have to pick up plant or materials from elsewhere, they should do that int their own time?
And it's their fault that are restrictions on what time they can use heavy machinery and or take up roadspace?
A starting point for this conversation would be for most people to accept they no fuck all about the subject matter.
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
What like 11pm at night? Is that acceptable next to a residential area?
ajdown
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Just out of interest, why is workman noise not acceptable at 11pm at night, but if you come on here complaining about noisy neighbours playing loud music and partying at the same sort of time you get told to buy earplugs/go join them/get a life/fuck off and stop being a killjoy?
Personally, I'd rather have neither past 10pm - especially on a weekday - but I'm curious as to why one is acceptable and the other not.
clandestino
no llevar papel
What are those time restrictions in this instance?
Wind yer neck in!
And it's know fuck all, not no fuck all
*scurries off*
Quite. My mistake.
Busy putting a bill together for millions of pounds worth of roadworks as it happens
Quite. My mistake.
Busy putting a bill together for millions of pounds worth of roadworks as it happens
Ah, fair enough.
We're not having a go at you, you know, or builders/contractors/engineers/workers generally. I think everyone's just a bit frustrated with Brixton town centre being one big mass of roadworks for, oooh, two years I would say, and this is just a way of letting off steam. Whatever the restrictions they're working under (and I'm sure they are working under lots and it's a pain) it would be nice for locals to see work being done. Why it's happening at 11pm is beyond me
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
I don't think I personally ever said that it was aj. However I think the difference may be that workmen are employed in a roundabout way by the council and thereby us and I think therefore that they should respect the vast majority tax payers' bedtime, party goers are not.
Just been past on the bus, seems quite busy, mini digger, 360, lots of blokes in hi-viz.
Their tree protection around the big Plane outside the Ritzy NO WAY conforms to BS5837:2005
*rummages for green crayon to write to council*
Classic - an aboriculturalist. I'm not, (and I don't work for TfL or Lambeth) but have a copy of this in my desk as it is a pain in the arse to work around. For comedy value if you do write a letter please let us know what the response is. How on earth did Lambeth's noise team let them do not critical work after the evening peak? Are they really working at 11pm?
For what it's worth at TfL they are in a no win situation at the moment. They are restructuring or moving offices on almost monthly basis it seems, just because Boris want's to be seen to be doing something. As a result your having a lack of coherent structure which is impossible to work in or with (e.g. people not knowing what their new "role"/"title" is).
Common sense at some meetings I have either been in or seen minutes of has seemed to have gone out of the window and personally I would point the finger roughly in Boris's direction (as things have changed massively in the last 12 months and not in a good way).
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
Well there has been the sound of a drill going at that time. Either it is work in the Square or the immediate ground zero vicinity or a 24 hour dentist has moved in downstairs.
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
The dentist was at it again at 7.30 this morning.
and on a sadder note all the bread wrappers have gone from the temporary fencing passage in front of the library
but why where they there in the first place?
ajdown
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but why where they there in the first place?
It's Brixton.
You expect strange things to happen.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
but why where they there in the first place?
Maybe they contained the builders' sandwiches?
fjydj
is specified
Maybe they contained the builders' sandwiches?
but they were all empty, and there must have been about a dozen of them... thats a lot of sandwiches for the one bloke doing all the work.
but why where they there in the first place?
If your troubled, I know it's TfL works, but phone the Council and ask to speak to someone in their Environmental Services or Public Protection Departments, as their noise team should be in one of them. Explain to them the situation and ask for clarification over noise in relation to construction working hours for the project (e.g. where 90% of my work is at the moment they have no noise policy, but out of courtesy to residents in built up areas I wouldn't use jackhammers before 08:30am or after 7:00pm). The project manager for the scheme should have clarified this at the start and put it in certain construction documents. There is a possibility though they were told to jump and said "how high"?
I was impressed by their bread eating dedication as well. To be honest I reckoned that they were just trying to make that Heras fencing more visible - some people will walk into anything, wire fencing included, unless there's brightly coloured somethings flapping about in the breeze to alert them.
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
The most genius development yet. None of the traffic lights are working in central Brixton. It is not a fault, it has been planned as there are signs saying the lights aren't working. There is understandably traffic chaos, especially coming down the hill and on Acre Lane. I'm wondering where the police are to direct the traffic, surely that is part of their remit? It is dangerous someone, especially a pedestrian could get seriously hurt as none of the green men are working either. Well done TfL another triumph. 
where the police are to direct the traffic, surely that is part of their remit? It is dangerous someone, especially a pedestrian could get seriously hurt as none of the green men are working either. Well done TfL another triumph.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The most genius development yet. None of the traffic lights are working in central Brixton. It is not a fault, it has been planned as there are signs saying the lights aren't working. There is understandably traffic chaos, especially coming down the hill and on Acre Lane. I'm wondering
They had PCSOs directing the traffic on Friday
Foucault's Wife
Tamiflu gives you wind
They must only work weekdays
But on a cheerier note I saw two bread bags tied to the railings.
King of Prussia
Very scared of Mrs Magpie
The most genius development yet. None of the traffic lights are working in central Brixton. It is not a fault, it has been planned as there are signs saying the lights aren't working. There is understandably traffic chaos, especially coming down the hill and on Acre Lane. I'm wondering
Counterintuitively, the more dangerous it feels, the safer it is because everyone is being really careful.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
They must only work weekdays
But on a cheerier note I saw two bread bags tied to the railings.
Excellent news
fjydj
is specified
They must only work weekdays
But on a cheerier note I saw two bread bags tied to the railings.
hurrah... i'll go and have a look later
