grajm

If the likelihood of being caught doesn’t put them off then the severity needs to. I think the Saudis have it right here - first time you lose a finger, second a hand.

A kid on a bike tried but failed to grab mine from my hand outside Denmark Hill station on Wednesday morning. Right in front of a cctv camera and didn’t even bother to cycle off especially quickly. And another one looping around suspiciously on the pavement outside East Dulwich station this evening, although I didn’t see him try anything. It does seem to be a bit of a trend.

The website says consultation closes 9 November 2023 - is the 3 a typo??

Quite dramatic

A quick straw poll - has anyone changed their mind on Rye Lane closure / non-closure based on the discussion on these pages?

This is dreadful, I hope they catch the scumbags.

I agree it wouldn't be cheap, but we just spent $1.1bn on 2 new Northern Line stations to service laregly empty investment apartments so surely a few million could be thrown Peckham's way! On the road layout, yes it is a bit complicated there - I would suggest making the roads around the bus garage into an anti-clockwise one way loop.

Rye Lane is fundamentally too narrow for all the users that want to use it (pedestrians, cyclists, delivery drivers, buses) to do so simultaneously in comfort. Anything that pleases bus users will annoy cyclists & pedestrians; anything that pleases cyclists will annoy pedestrians & bus users, and so on. So we need to think a bit outside the box. In my view the best solution would be to keep buses off of Rye Lane but create direct Peckham Rye Station access from a) Bellenden Road (between Holly Grove and Blenheim Grove) and b) the Consort Road / Copeland Road junction, with step-free entrances and well-lit, covered, CCTV-monitored walkways (maybe even a travelator for the ~250m from the Copeland entrance to the main station). Add bus stops by those entrances and then bus users could easily access the station and the other Rye Lane users would have a little more room to move and breathe.