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....let the children play...but not in our Square please...;-)

Raeburn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That?s exactly the right reason - to provide > better infrastructure and enable people to walk, > ride, scoot, skate. End the false construct that > driving is the answer, and reduce reliance on > vehicles for short-hop journeys? But Raeburn, to be fair, the council has said previously that you should not put these types of measures in places where PTAL scores are low and car ownership is high as they wont work i.e. Dulwich. The council can't have it both ways and what we are seeing now are the consequences of them ignoring their own advice.... Also, let me correct you it appears the council wants to encourage walking and riding but not scooting or skating given the positioning of the new planters in Margy Square.....;-) I was at the cafe at the weekend and couple of children were bemoaning the fact they could not play there anymore....

Dulwich car ownership is at over 60% in the Dulwich area - driven (no pun intended) by the larger percentage than other boroughs of those under-19 and those over 65 and the poor public transport links in the area. It's all in here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/6887/Dulwich-TMS-SDG-Full-Report-Final-April-2018-.pdf Which, when you read it, makes the decision to puts LTNs even more baffling.

I think a lot of our local Labour councillors are doing a fine impression of Tory councillors during this debacle.

LTN Boo Hoo: You said: An arbitration exercise is not what I?m suggesting. What I?m suggesting is a team of professional experts who can look at an area and make recommendations on how to make things better for everyone. Eg where the blockages are occurring and how to make adjustments to ease them. Surely the council should have engaged with said professional experts (if they do not have the capability internally to do this) BEFORE implementing these measures? You have registered recently but if you look back you will see that many on here were predicting exactly what has happened (in terms of negative impacts) of these measures. If people on this forum could predict what was going to happen then why could the council not - that is, after all, what they are paid to do? Anyway, to your point on making changes I don't know if anyone else is but I am hearing rumours that they are coming due to the untenable congestion being caused by these closures across Dulwich and the realisation that they are not working and causing far more issues than they solve. I suspect the council are seeing the data and from the monitoring and not liking what they are seeing. Re: Goodrich, ah so the school wasn't informed as the council went for a yellow-line land-grab again....you would have thought the council would have told the school these were in-bound....I sense some tensions between Goodrich and the council.

DC - this is another case of the Guardian's usual "the headline doesn't quite tally with the info further down the article" bias and if you read the article with a clear mind you will see why. Also, you say there is no proof of emergency services citing LTNs as delays but there is and the DV junction closure has been called out in reports from LAS - but maybe we should put that down to salience.....I hope I don't urgently need emergency service assistance that gets delayed due to salience....here lies the body of Rockets - it was salience that did for him! ;-) Let me break it down: Headline: Opponents of LTNs claim they delay emergency services ? but look at the facts Reality: LTNs aren't specifically called out by the emergency services but "traffic calming measures", which include LTNs were in a report and these rose by as much as 35% in areas with new LTNs. Guardian's defence: Data obtained from LFB by The Times not "scientifically credible" and LFB reports of delays down to salience Objective analysis: More desperate Guardian blah, blah, blah in defence of LTNs Rewrite the Guardian headline from the other side: LFB see up to 35% rises in delays caused by new traffic calming measures, including LTNs but supporters claim this is due to salience The proof: There was, however, one interesting phenomenon: the proportion of the delays put down to ?traffic calming measures? ? the metric that covers LTNs ? rose, particularly when newer LTNs had been built. The authors argue that this seemed largely down to the academic phenomenon known as ?salience?: the fact that some things are just more memorable than others. Hence, a crew having to detour round a new set of bollards are much more likely to note this in their report than, for example, being held up by traffic. The corollary to the Waltham Forest report is a news story in the Times last month, which used the extensive LFB data to argue that LTNs did appear to be a problem, citing the fact that delays attributed to ?traffic calming measures? rose much more steeply in boroughs with new LTNs than those without ? by 35% as against 2.8%. While superficially notable, the article is not academically credible, for several reasons. One is the impact of salience on the results. Another is that London boroughs are big and complex places, and there was no attempt made to account for the many other factors that could be involved ? not least the very different traffic patterns of lockdown.

This does look like a very deliberate move to stop the kids skating there - it's pretty shameful to be honest given they are so desperate to create modal shift....but to only certain types it appears.

Ah ha - they've put the planters there to stop the kids from using it as a skate and scooter park.....it seems that skaters are not part of their plans for use of the "Square"! The killjoys....

And it now looks like the water main is going again at the end of Underhill at the junction of the A205 - water on the surface of the road again......so back will come Thames Water....

I agree with everything said above. It's time for the council to come out of their LTN bunker and begin a proper dialogue with ALL residents - not just those in their own echo chamber. The LTNs are having a devastating impact on those who live, work and are schooled outside of the LTN epicentre and it's time for the council and councillors to admit they are not working and try to engage with everyone to work to find solutions that are fair to everyone - the head in the sand approach, positioning those who are raising legitimate concerns as a "small, vocal minority", pandering to lobby groups and analysing things on a ward-by-ward basis has to stop - it's time for the local councillors to break rank with the party line and do what they were elected to do - represent the views of all of their constituents to the council. I suspect they may have to start doing this as it is clear that their review could not have been more badly timed as the traffic is horrendous as lockdown lifts and people return to some semblance of normality and it is exposing the fundamental flaws in the approach the council and councillors have taken and validating what many locals were saying would happen when these measures were first mooted under the guise of a need for social distancing. I suspect as they are reviewing the data they are fast realising there is no way they can positively spin this.

I suspect they are putting them on there to warn cyclists that pedestrians may be crossing, especially now due to the narrowing caused by the new benches. The junction is just so confusing now and no-one knows who has priority - I was sitting enjoying a sandwich from Au Ceil with my family on the new seats and a few bikes came hurtling down the hill which caused a few people walking across the road to do the pre-collision shuffle - that quick couple of stutter steps people take when they think a collision is imminent.

Completely agree legal - the Square is just really confused as to what it is now - a mish mash of poorly thought out implementations. No-one knows who has right of way and no-one seems to know whether the traffic signals apply to them anymore or not so just ignore them. It's another example that this council really hasn't got the first clue how to manage anything professionally.

Heartblock - the council cannot remedy it as they are in a blackout period ahead of the mayoral elections. Cllr McAsh - would you please share with us the list of roads east of Lordship Lane that have received the leaflets? It appears it is a few houses along each road immediately bordering Lordship Lane (literally the first few houses) and then some houses along Underhill Road. And perhaps you might tell us which road the resident who told you all of their neighbours had received it is - it wouldn't be Melbourne Grove per chance.......asking for a friend....;-) Finally, are monitoring strips in on Underhill Road?

That could be a fun meeting to watch! ;-) ..especially if the traders have been invited..... Grab your popcorn....

redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LTN's and the consultation process have been all > over the TV news, print news, leaflets, shop > windows, internets etc for the past year > > Just to make sure everyone is aware of the > process, perhaps southwark should pay for a > gorillagram to personally deliver the leaflet to > every household in south London? > > Of course, you would then be the first to moan > about the cost of consultation > > > Rockets Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > They have to do a better job of communicating > with > > everyone on this. We are all aware of the > review > > but many people have no clue it is going on and > so > > will not have an opportunity to give their > input. > > I suspect the council is more than happy with > this > > as they know this is going to become a numbers > > game and if the weight of public opinion is > > against them then it becomes more and more > > difficult to justify. > > > > It's clear that everyone who lives on one of > the > > roads on the pulldown menus (but remember the > > fight many of us had to put up to have our > roads > > added) should also receive the leaflet as a > matter > > of course. Redpost - but news of the council's review has not, I am sure you'll agree, had quite so much attention so maybe given the council's desire to see a fair and equitable review they need to ensure that everyone in the area is aware of it. Or perhaps they are expecting people to sense there is a review and take a punt negotiating the awful council website to try, on the offchance, to find the review page. No, it's clear what we are seeing here is a council desperate to try and maniulate things to keep the review under the radar as much as possible to try and influence the outcome of it. They know, and I suspect you do too Redpost, that if, for example, people living on Goodrich Road or Dunstans Road were aware of the review they might want to respond and leave their (probably) less than favourable feedback due to the increase in traffic on their roads. Trust me, I won't moan about them spending a few thousand on making sure all of their constituents being affected by these LTNs receive a leaflet. I mean, what on earth could they be afraid of......;-) Anyway, has anyone noticed that the monitoring strips seem to only have gone in on the "main" roads (except I hasten to add the closed roads). As far as I am aware there are no strips on Underhill, for example. Could it be that the council is really going to do the assessment and then say that the "main" roads are where this traffic should be going to justify their nonsense schemes?

The LTNs are doing what many of us feared they would, creating a car free nirvana in some areas whilst creating car hell around it. The traffic on the A205, Croxted Road, East Dulwich Grove, Lordship Lane, Underhill Road is awful, especially since the most recent lockdown lifting, and I very much suspect that the change in narrative from some councillors about some roads being built to handle more traffic is a clear sign of the way they are going to try and justify the hell they are creating for the large majority of their constituents......

legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming cycle hangars and various double yellow > lines etc > > https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3771087 Ah the usual double-yellow line extension pre-cursor to a CPZ review is in play (squeeze the parking spaces to try and create parking stress to get people to vote for a CPZ): (n) add new or extends existing lengths of DYL 2m (unless otherwise stated) in ATHENLAY ROAD, BELLWOOD ROAD, BORLAND ROAD, DUNSTANS ROAD (3m), ELCOT AVENUE, FELLBRIGG ROAD (4.5m), FRIERN ROAD, GOODRICH ROAD, GROSVENOR PARK (1.5m), IVYDALE ROAD, KELLY AVENUE, MELBOURNE GROVE, OVERHILL ROAD, SHENLEY ROAD and in three locations on UPLAND ROAD;

Malumbu - I hope you aren?t feeling left out - rest assured if I see something you say that I think is spot on I will let you know. I have not seen anything yet but keep going...don?t lose heart! ;-)

But 22,500 drivers have not missed a two 20mph signs in a 6 week period. You have to admit that those numbers suggest that something isn't working.

What is more shocking to me is the fact that the LTN debacle is happening under Labour's watch - they seem to have lost leave of their senses and are behaving more like Tories with their head in the sand approach. It demonstrates to me how far they have become separated from the voters and they are seemingly repeating the same mistakes at a local level that led us to have to live under this Tory government for another 4 years - putting far-left ideology and party politics ahead of listening to what voters are saying to them.

Bicknell - you are spot on. The council is playing a numbers game and trying to drum up as much positive support for the LTNs as possible (often from outside the area) whilst at the same time making a shambles of delivering leaflets to households who live within the area that are living with the displacement caused by the LTNs. They must know that in a fair fight they lose. They are probably terrified of the review heading in the same direction as the 68% of residents who opposed the CPZ and know full well they would struggle to justify keeping the LTNs if a similar result was seen this time. They probably also know from the data they are seeing from the roads that displacement and increased congestion and pollution is happening and so they need to have an overwhelming number of people supporting LTNs to have a chance of keeping them. They are doing their utmost to try an skew the results in their favour.

Cllr McAsh, Nor do I think the Tory approach to ripping out LTNs and bike lanes is the right approach. But then again nor do I think the Labour approach in Southwark to LTNs and the amateurish way they have been implemented and the self-serving way you refuse to acknowledge the obvious flaws in the implementation is the right approach. You're both as bad as each other, putting party politics and political ideology ahead of properly addressing the issues. Maybe one party will take their head out of the sand and come up with a plan that actually delivers. Despite your claims that 18,000 leaflets have been delivered it is quite shocking how few people have actually received them - if seems the distribution has been, perhaps, deliberately flawed, And I understand that the council is now claiming the lack of and flaws in distribution cannot be rectified due to the rules of campaigning ahead of the Mayoral election. How convenient. Perhaps you could confirm which streets were on the distribution list and are supposed to have received the leaflets. I have heard that, bar Underhill Road, no-one east of Lordship Lane received them. Why? Your council is very deliberately trying to influence the outcome of the review by trying to gerrymander and restrict awareness. Either that or the council is utterly incompetent and incapable of executing an area-wide leaflet drop. The fact both Pro and anti-LTN groups are having to fund leaflet drops to draw attention to the review speaks volumes. It is reflective of an electorate having to take matters into their own hands due to the council's failings. And that should be ringing alarm bells within the council.

Interesting to see Dulwich Square coalition discussing emergency vehicle access - is this an admission maybe that there is a problem with no emergency vehicle access? And on the subject of fines (this may have been posted previously) but did anyone see the headline on Southwark news: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/exclusive-southwark-council-rakes-in-2-5-million-from-four-ltn-cameras-in-dulwich-and-walworth-in-first-three-months-of-issuing-fines/ 22.500 fines totally ?2.5m in just over 6 weeks - how wonderfully socialist of our "socialist" council. One hopes the council may be forced into action over their pathetic efforts (pathetic in terms of execution not money generation I hasten to add) with the cameras in Dulwich and Walworth. It makes you wonder whether the council might need some external intervention to right their sinking ship - Cllr Williams seems to have lost control of his councillors - does anyone have any confidence left in their abilities to lead and deliver on behalf of their constituents?

They have to do a better job of communicating with everyone on this. We are all aware of the review but many people have no clue it is going on and so will not have an opportunity to give their input. I suspect the council is more than happy with this as they know this is going to become a numbers game and if the weight of public opinion is against them then it becomes more and more difficult to justify. It's clear that everyone who lives on one of the roads on the pulldown menus (but remember the fight many of us had to put up to have our roads added) should also receive the leaflet as a matter of course.

It speaks volumes that the Dulwich Alliance is having to do the council's job for them and distribute leaflets - I am still hearing from a lot of people across the area who have not yet seen anything from the council - it's almost as if they are trying to keep the review under the radar!!!!