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If a miracle happens, and the council wakes up to the fact that it has local support for option 10 (as the best of a bad bunch), can it put this through without another consultation?

Just got this through my door. DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY New design for Townley Road Junction DEADLINE FOR YOUR RESPONSE TO SOUTHWARK IS FRIDAY 13 MARCH We OBJECT to the latest proposal for the junction because : 1. Reducing Townley Road to a single lane will cause traffic chaos 2. The design is experimental. If it causes gridlock, who will pay to put it right? 3. The pavement build-out on the corner of Townley Road is so sharp it forces coaches to swing out into the path of pedestrians and cyclists 4. There are no road markings to show that vehicles turning right from Townley Road are crossing a cycle path 5. Removing the traffic island from East Dulwich Grove makes the junction less safe for pedestrians ? This latest proposal is being rushed through without proper thought ? The figures in the feasibility study are surprising and should be checked ? Southwark is not listening to the concerns of the local community The money for this junction comes from TfL. Southwark is rushing it through because they don?t want to lose the funding, and work has to be done in the summer holidays. Out of the options presented, we think option 10, with two lanes on Townley Road, is the best ? particularly 10B, with two lanes on East Dulwich Grove, so the 37 won?t be delayed by cars turning right into Green Dale PLEASE GIVE YOUR SUPPORT FOR OPTION 10, AS LONG AS THE SHARP PAVEMENT BUILD-OUT (TURNING LEFT FROM TOWNLEY ROAD) IS REDUCED To reply to the consultation, fill in the paper form, or the online feedback form: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200308/current/3729/townley_road_junction_scheme_re-consultation To hear Southwark?s report on the consultation, come to the Dulwich Community Council on Tuesday 17 March, at 7pm, at The Community Suite, St Barnabas Church, 40 Calton Avenue, SE21 7DG

Tailbacks mean engines idling = more pollution at a junction used by children.

@wolfhound 8A has one lane on Townley. That's the big issue, isn't it? One lane on Townley = traffic jam. Which isn't good for cyclists either.

From the change.org petition website, (on the post about the q&a session on 28 Feb). The people who set up the petition are sending out a summary on March 8th. "We plan to send in individual responses to Southwark after this event. We will summarise what we think of the proposal in an update by Friday 8 March, which will be emailed to you via the petition website. Please send Southwark your own response using the paper form, or reply directly to Southwark online (http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200308/current/3729/townley_road_junction_scheme_re-consultation) by Friday 13 March. This is very important. Your individual response really matters. If you have any questions, we?ll do what we can to help. Please email [email protected]. Also, please feel free to copy your feedback to Southwark to this email if you would like to, as your points may be relevant to other people?s queries. Southwark will report back on the re-consultation at the next Dulwich Community Council meeting, which is on 17 March i.e. three days after the deadline. The timescale is so tight because they want to do work to the junction over the summer holidays."

@Derwent Groover You know, I think the best option would be for Alleyns and JAGS and their junior schools to categorically say to all their parents that no child should be brought to school by car. (Get them to sign a promise when they accept a place.) I've been told that other London schools do that. I suppose you'd have to have special cases, like if a child had broken a leg or had to bring a double bass. But as a general rule, that would get rid of most of the traffic at peak times. Everybody knows this, because the streets are empty when the independent schools are on holiday. Then maybe the schools could lobby TfL for more local buses. Since most of the Alleyns and JAGS parents seem to come from Wandsworth, why not a new direct bus service from there?

So I'm wondering two things after that useless session on Saturday. 1. Is anyone at TfL going to check this new scheme works? Or do they just leave it all up to Southwark? 2. If Southwark gives it the green light based on figures that don't add up, is there anyone higher up who can stop them?

There's a Q&A drop-in meeting at St Barnabas Parish Hall on Saturday from 11 to 2. I've got lots of Qs. Does anyone know how these meetings work?

Lots of people talking about this in the pub last night. General view its a bad plan and if it goes thorugh will have to be redone at great expense(as per usual). I'm asking James Barber what he thinks. Anyone got a list of the parliamentary candidates(apart from Tessa Jowell)?

I've got the re-consultation document for the Townley Road junction. I don't understand why roads are being reduced to one lane. Won't that just create chaos? They talk about 'slight loss of capacity' and 'acceptable levels' which doesn't fill me with confidence. You used to be on the Townley Road thread a lot, but you're not there now. What's your view on the new proposal?

What about Tessa Jowell? Worth writing to her?

That was going to be my next question. If there are things about the re-consultation we object to, will local councillors back us up? Or do they support the scheme the way it is now?

Why only one lane on Townley Rd? Won't that slow things up?