Future Brixton
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Yes please!Papingo said:
Oh, and East Brixton station reopened, the Cross River Tram up and running, the market brought back to its former glory, Tate gardens put back to how they looked in 1907, a nice new prestigious public 'landmark' building for Brixton, the Coach & Horses reinstated, Cooltan rebuilt and lots of money usefully slopped around Coldharbour Lane/Somerleyton etc to give the kids something proper to do.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
editor said:
Although slick and corporate, if the food is of the standard of the Yard Bar and Kitchen next to Brains brewery, (formerly the Albert?) then it will beat most of the current Brixton offer immediately.
RushcroftRoader
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I would like to see a stocks introduced in the middle of the market for drug dealers.
I would like to see the closure of about 5 stinking fish shops. But not the one under the railway arch - he is fantastic.
I would like to see a Brixton Oval chess tournament take place at lunchtime and 6pm every day with Ritzy staff bringing beers out to players. And regular Saturday afternoon BBQs in the summer.
Ooh I know, how about the police actually investigating "low level" crime, like street theft and muggings!
Would it be possible to get a nice cup of coffee for less than £3?
How about a pedestrian "fast lane" between the Tube and the KFC. No pushchairs, mad wandering people, any shopper with more than 2 carrier bags, or hugely fat people allowed.
I would like to see the closure of about 5 stinking fish shops. But not the one under the railway arch - he is fantastic.
I would like to see a Brixton Oval chess tournament take place at lunchtime and 6pm every day with Ritzy staff bringing beers out to players. And regular Saturday afternoon BBQs in the summer.
Ooh I know, how about the police actually investigating "low level" crime, like street theft and muggings!
Would it be possible to get a nice cup of coffee for less than £3?
How about a pedestrian "fast lane" between the Tube and the KFC. No pushchairs, mad wandering people, any shopper with more than 2 carrier bags, or hugely fat people allowed.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Who in Brixton charges £3 for a coffee apart from maybe Caffe Nero?RushcroftRoader said:
My new favourite coffee place is Opus up acre lane - very good quality. Max-Olivers is also not bad and the Lounge does a good coffee for £1.50. During the day there's also San Marino on the main road.
I would suggest the Ritzy too but unfortunately they serve the worst cappucinos in Brixton.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Investment in the market - facilities, decent road surfaces, promotion.
Central public toilets so my road (and all other side roads off the center) doesn't stink of piss all the time. Just some street urinals would be good.
Trams, wider pavements, no cars, free bikes and all that good stuff too
Central public toilets so my road (and all other side roads off the center) doesn't stink of piss all the time. Just some street urinals would be good.
Trams, wider pavements, no cars, free bikes and all that good stuff too
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
RushcroftRoader said:
Excellent ideas, especially the last one, and make it illegal for people to stop and engage in conversation on that particular stretch of road, especially when it's three mothers standing side by side with prams hogging the whole pavement
Sorry mothers
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
Brazas (near the Hobgoblin/Hootananny) give out free coffee to commuters walking down to the tube/bus in the morning. They also sell ciabatta deli type sandwiches which they'll make up for you there and then and give you free fruit to go with it. Can't remember how much the sandwiches are but I remember thinking they were pretty damn cheap!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Get rid of MacDonalds and KFC and then there'd be less rubbish on the streets and the buses wouldn't stink
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Close Brixton Road to car traffic and bring back the river Effra to the surface creating a long thin urban park reaching from Brockwell Park to the River Thames with just cyclepaths on one side and trams on the other. At least a dozen extremely funky Amsterdam-style bridges to be put in place across said reinstated river. Plant watercress in it with gatherage rights to all Lambeth residents.
Let there be Cress for all!
And ducking stools for yuppies and estate agents.
Also a nice brazier for the lady with the comb and the bit of paper and the shaky thing.
Let there be Cress for all!
And ducking stools for yuppies and estate agents.
Also a nice brazier for the lady with the comb and the bit of paper and the shaky thing.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
I nominate you for President of Brixtonco-op said:
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
co-op said:
This... I want this.... (and the brazier)
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
co-op said:
Aren't there enough drugs in Brixton?
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
And another thing! - restore Lougborough Junction's radical and innovative free shuttle service to the centre of London, I don't think I saw a ticket seller or collector at the station in LJ once in the 1980s. Meanwhile at Holborn Viaduct* the converstaion went like this;
Ticket collector: where's your ticket then?
Co-op: I've come from Loughborough Junction, and I want a one-day travelcard but the ticket office wasn't open.
TC: ok you'll have to go and buy one over there <points at ticket office a good 100 yards away>
Co-op: Sure thing! I'll go right over there now and do it straight away before I forget!
*Holborn Viaduct = "St Paul's Thameslink" in new money
Ticket collector: where's your ticket then?
Co-op: I've come from Loughborough Junction, and I want a one-day travelcard but the ticket office wasn't open.
TC: ok you'll have to go and buy one over there <points at ticket office a good 100 yards away>
Co-op: Sure thing! I'll go right over there now and do it straight away before I forget!
*Holborn Viaduct = "St Paul's Thameslink" in new money
