Eileen

hope you have a really refreshing break. Eileen

Just shows that there IS a real job to do to get a message across to the Mayor about the key role that the South London Line plays in the transport infrastructure of inner south London. So it?s important to book your tickets for his appearance in Brixton on 9 November (details below). When EDF is back from holiday you might find all the places gone. This could be some really interesting and important democratic theatre that evening. There are several different strands to the campaign with ALL the elected reps playing valuable roles, whatever their party, as South Londoners first in this case - in spite of some of our local Forumites perhaps not seeing the wood for the trees, and raising objections to the campaign. But this is often on the mistaken idea that the campaign is opposed to the ELLX, and that the reconstruction work at London Bridge inevitably rules out the SLL continuing there. Neither of those things are 100% true. The campaign is an endeavour to get the whole thing reviewed properly giving proper weight for the FIRST time to the need to plan for proper integration in south London?s overground rail services. Mayor's Question time - Monday 9th November 7pm - 9pm Apply for tickets to this next Mayor's Question Time in Brixton Academy, south London. Let's have so many rail users there that he has to hear us. TO APPLY: email - [email protected] including your name, address, postcode, daytime phone number and the number of tickets you require (max 6 per application) OR call 020 7983 4762. For background see http://www.southwarkrailusers.net Hope you have a good hols EDF administrators... We will be even more in the thick of this debate when you return!

languagelounger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah yes. Everyone can remember where they were > when they were first promised an extension of the > Bakerloo line, whether that was in the 60s, 70s, > 80s, 90s.. hi - you quoted from Skyscraper city forum. Can you give a lead on how to connect with this? I'd like to find out more. Can't track it down on Google.

There will be no more reminders on this Forum of the upcoming meeting on the station etc, see details above, as the meeting happens during the EDF holiday. So if you want to book a place, please PM me now or email [email protected] Hope some Forumites can come so we can have an EDF discussion when the Forum resumes... Rye Lane & Station Action Group meeting Wednesday 28th October 2009 5.45pm displays & light buffet refreshments 6.15pm-8.30pm meeting At the Bussey building, 133 Rye Lane, opposite Blenheim Grove.

AcedOut Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I run a completely unrelated forum, but I could > possibly open up a special section on there for > EDF goers as a temporary stopping place, but I'm > not sure my servers would cope! Probably best to > stick with the other local forums for the next > couple of weeks. Suggest a place is decided > upon... > We coudl use the SE5 Forum which overlaps quite a bit with East Dulwich matters & interests, and is low trafic comapred with EDF : http://www.se5forum.org/forum/index.php

R&A Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great - so she may want to help as the Maudsley is > served by Denmark Hill too right? > Let's hope she does read this and steps in... > > pm me Jo! > :) Yes great idea. Jo if you see this - please PM me as well. The campaign group would be very pleased to hear from you or any other local based celebrity who uses the local rail services.

definitely not a waste of time to get the message out as part of the campaign. It is really important that we get a good number of rail users there who are informed on this issue. So don't be put off by views about Johnson himself. It is essential to book tickets. so don't delay. puzzled Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > waste of time. the fat, gormless toff troll > doesn't give a stuff. he has 3 years plus on his > term and he won;t be seeking re-election. he > seriously believes he will become the nation's > saviour. tragic

Just a reminder before the EDF holiday that you need to book tickets for the Mayor?s Question Time in Brixton ? see details below. Discussion to continue after EDF holiday? Mayor's Question time - Monday 9th November 7pm - 9pm Apply for tickets to this next Mayor's Question Time in Brixton Academy, south London. Ask Mayor Boris Johnson why TfL are proposing that our direct rail services into central London should be cut. Let's have so many rail users there that he has to hear us. TO APPLY: email - [email protected] including your name, address, postcode, daytime phone number and the number of tickets you require (max 6 per application) OR call 020 7983 4762. For background see http://www.southwarkrailusers.net

Users of Peckham Rye station will probably be interested to hear that Network Rail are now getting plans developed to make the station properly accessible to people who have difficulty with the stairs for whatever reason. This would involve reconstructing the station inside by moving the staircases and installing lifts to all the platforms. This is expensive and major work, and funding is not yet finalised but it will happen later if not sooner. It is at an early stage of planning but probably the best time to influence what happens, and that the work preserves what is good about this listed building. This will be one of the topics at the next Rye Lane & Station Action Group meeting, see details below. There will also be the latest news on the plans for the front and rear of the station, and ideas and discussion on achieving improvements in that central area of Rye Lane. Speakers from the railway companies and Southwark Council will be preceded by an illustrated presentation from Benedict O?Looney, The Peckham Society?s architectural expert on the history of the station building. There will be no reminders on this Forum as the meeting happens during the EDF holiday. So if you want to book a place, please PM me now or email [email protected] Hope some Forumites can come so we can have a discussion afterwards. Rye Lane & Station Action Group meeting Wednesday 28th October 2009 5.45pm displays & light buffet refreshments 6.15pm-8.30pm meeting At the Bussey building, 133 Rye Lane, opposite Blenheim Grove. For a reminder of some of the background visit: Peckham Rye Station http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Peckham_Rye_Station Transforming Central Rye Lane http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Transforming_Central_Rye_Lane Copeland Cultural Quarter http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Copeland_Cultural_Quarter

It is a great idea to encourage more emails to the key people. We have had this as a key part of the campaign from the beginning last April. See here for the list of people and the email addresses. http://www.bellenden.net/rail-cuts#actions and scroll to * email your views to the decision makers: tell them why you value the service, and ask them to stop the cut: Lord Adonis (the Rail Minister) at: [email protected] and Boris Johnson at: [email protected] * email your elected representatives.- and a list of all of them. This has been very effective in creating a continuing stream of emails rather than meeting a particular deadline. We need them to keep on going to the decision makers. So if you haven?t done it already please do it now. All the emails and letters have been personal which as Steady Eddy says is the most effective. There may be more that can be done to stimulate more emails via this website as R&A says. We will also be developing the messages when we have another key point to make, and maybe for a particular deadline as the campaign moves on. But at the moment it is the general message - which is that the SLL is important, that we want our direct services to central London maintained and improved and not cut, even when we have the ELLX. If anyone wants to post a starter draft which can be refined in this discussion we would be glad to put it on the SRUG website and add it to the actions list. Please also anyone interested in making suggestions for actions, it would be good to browse through the website so you can see what we are doing. It is very comprehensive. May not be all immediately obvious in detail but it is very comprehensive. If there is anything not there or anything not clear please say. The key pages are: * Home ? summary of key highlights past & future: http://www.southwarkrailusers.net * Campaign page ? actions to take, campaign news, outcomes, background: http://www.bellenden.net/rail-cuts * SRUG News ? posts on daily happenings, news reports, actions etc: http://www.bellenden.net/srug/news The SRUG webpages are currently hosted on the BRG website hence the web page addresses as they are shortened by this EDF system. Don?t let that put you off ? they go straight to the SRUG pages. Steady Eddy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > R&A Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Steady Eddy - they sounds like really good > ideas.How did you coordinate it all? should we > pick an MP, a date and draft a rough letter and > get it posted up on here you think? > > Please be aware that I personally did not > coordinate this, nor did I set it up, but I can > definately answer the information you have > requested. > Coordinating - this was done via a website. Also > anyone interested in the campaign provided their > email details so was on a database. They were > emailed informing them of the planned letter > campaign also with the information that would hit > home of its importance. This email sent to them > provided a link to the website direct to the > drafted document. They were asked to contribute by > filling out the personal part of the drafted > email/letter. For a lower coordinated version of > this, perhaps a word document attachment could be > emailed to contributers rather than via a website. > > > Picking an MP - The MP must be your own MP, which > for ED it is Tessa Jowell, but the MP will differ > depending on where we all live. The link that was > sent to all on the database also allowed them to > find their local MPs details that was also set up > on the website, so it was all set up to be easy > for people to contribute and could also send it > via the website. But we are all wanting Boris to > listen, so this would be set up to target him. ...

It?s great to see at last a real discussion on EDF sparked off by our public meeting on Wednesday. I haven?t responded till now as I?m recovering from the exhaustion of putting all the key elements in place for the public meeting to make sure it got the right messages across. It seems like it did. My huge thanks to Laurie who realised my dream of years to produce the map showing the South London Line (SLL) part of our direct rail connections to central London from Peckham and Camberwell. See attached pdf for this, and also on the SRUG webpages at http://www.bellenden.net/srug/news/30-september-meeting-maps-fact-flyers . Use the map to show your friends. I have lived in Peckham for 36 years so I have too much negative experience of how people are affected by the Tube map, ignoring places that don't appear on the Tube map. We are now going to change that. Now I, like many people, am in favour of the orbital link that TfL have worked hard to achieve through the East London Line Extension (ELLX). I applaud them for that achievement. It makes sense in long term development of London?s transport Infrastructure. But I have never understood how people were so taken in by TfL propaganda that it would at last put us on the Tube (which isn?t true) when the ELLX came through. In practice, as a long term rail user it felt like we were anyway but it just wasn?t on the physical map. It is why I tried for years to get someone in TfL interested in getting us on to the physical map. Now I understand why that was impossible. They seem to want to make every one think that you can go only east and west from Peckham and Camberwell on the overground rail. I was shocked in the last year when I discovered the maps TfL were producing for the Tube in 2012 showing us on the map through the overground ELLX, but absolutely no links with central London as if our overground rail services to central London didn?t exist. You can see the map at http://www.bellenden.net/sites/default/files/tube%20map%202012%20orange%20line.doc This is not an accidental aberration, as these services are completely ignored also in the TfL/Mayor draft Transport Strategy for London. Our direct central London services include also, as well as the SLL, the now fantastic link with St Pancras and beyond via Blackfriars and Elephant & Castle. This cross-London link (our only one) is a restoration of what we used to have before privatisation (and there is no guarantee we will keep it after the next refranchise in 2011/12 ? we have to campaign for that as well). We need to get all these on our local maps as well and use them to promote Peckham and Camberwell in spite of TfL?s determination to downplay our direct rail connections with central London. It makes life easy for Network Rail and DfT to go along with this and also to pile all the blame on TfL. But they are all in it together. The complete dismissal by the rail industry of the high value for all London travellers of these crucial links is what lies behind the decision to cut the South London Line. It shows that we have to get the politicians to instruct the rail industry to change that. We have made a huge step forward in getting the support of the 4 main political parties - Greens, Lib Dems, Conservative, Labour - at almost all levels ? ward, boroughs, London Assembly, MPs. So imagining that we can get the politicians to instruct the rail industry to change its approach is not far fetched. The last remaining elements to get to see common sense are the Labour Rail Minister/SofS for Transport and the Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson. This is such a huge shift the rail industry has to make it is not going to happen overnight. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth (metaphorically of course) but if we keep our nerve and keep developing the strength of our campaign we can make this change. An important step is Boris Johnson?s visit to Brixton on Monday 9th November 7pm for his People?s Question Time. We need the place packed with rail users who know about these issues so that he doesn?t leave Brixton without understanding the issue. It is very likely that neither he nor his political transport advisers yet understand it as they are not south Londoners and they are briefed only by TfL. So we have to get a direct connection with him. We have a good chance on the 9th November. So everyone who wants us to win this needs to get tickets for that event. Here is what you have to do NOW to make sure you get one: Mayor's Question Time Mon 9th November 09 7pm in Brixton apply for tickets: email - [email protected] include name, address, postcode, daytime phone number, number of tickets needed OR call 020 7983 4762. To help strengthen the campaign, email [email protected] to get on the mailing list so we can alert you easily to news and actions. Also see the SRUG webpages for news and background: http://www.bellenden.net/srug All the info about the cuts that we gave out on Wed (see attachment fact flyer by stations, for a copy of this) has been available for months on the website, in emails, and distributed in flyers by a handful of rail users on the trains and the stations. This contributed to over 200 people coming to the public meeting. It didn?t happen overnight. But we need to get the news to thousands more, so the more people who download the flyers and distribute them to fellow rail travellers the more we can spread the word. They are in A6 pocket size by station, so easy to print and carry. And for a summary list of all the Actions that users can take - see SSLL Actions attachment. Sorry for the long post. If there are any remaining doubts or queries about the huge common sense of this campaign, I will gladly attempt to respond if you post them again, or for the first time, in this discussion.

JBARBER Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Eileen, > Hope the meeting goes really well tomorrow. > The only missing villain from the 'guests' is the > Department of Transport who set the strategy for > Network Rail to impliment. Thanks. Yes. They were invited but the only ones not even to acknowledge! It is going to be a really great chance to show the rail industry how much local rail users care about their direct rail links into London Bridge and Victoria. Likely to be a lively, informative and interesting meeting. May also even be historic. * If anyone can come early - we can do with help to set up from 6pm. * worth coming from 6.30pm to join in the networking round each station and see the rail displays etc. Also talk to the rail representatives who are coming. If anyone wants to raise current train service issues best time is between 6.30pm and 7pm. * Main session starts 7pm. We hope lots of rail users come and take part and help to get our collective voice heard to put South London Zone 2 on the London rail map! PUBLIC MEETING: WEDNESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2009 6.30pm refreshments & networking, 7.00pm - 9.00pm meeting Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8AF see map attached - entrance at letter A, between Denmark Hill and Grove Lane

We now have confirmation that representatives of Network Rail, Transport for London, London TravelWatch the passenger watchdog group, and the rail companies, will be attending. Please come if you can. Lots of supporters needed. This is rail users' chance to impress the rail industry of our need for direct rail services into central London. Hope enough EDF people there so we can have some useful Forum discussions following the meeting PUBLIC MEETING: WEDNESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2009 6.30pm refreshments & networking, 7.00pm - 9.00pm meeting Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8AF see map attached - entrance at letter A, between Denmark Hill and Grove Lane The meeting is * to demonstrate the very strong support for the campaign, * to inform us all on the facts and issues of the campaign. * Please forward this information to your neighbours and friends if they use the trains. * Visit the SRUG website for overall information and facts about the issues and the campaign: http://www.southwarkrailusers.net http://www.bellenden.net/rail-cuts

Wednesday today is the last day to buy the Southwark News which has a full page poster supporting the Save the South London campaign. Also a reminder of the PUBLIC MEETING on WED 30 SEPTEMBER 6.30pm refreshments & networking, 7.00pm - 9.00pm meeting, at Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8AF. Flyers for download from http://www.southwarkrailusers.net for printing and distribution. We need lots of rail users at this campaign meeting. Come and get the facts; discuss the issues; join the action. Helpers also needed on the night; to volunteer email [email protected]

Steady Eddy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dearest dearest sweet smelling peckhamrose As > a public panel member you were elected to > represent one area of the community's voice. It > concerns me of some of the things you said in your > post to me and I do hope there are others that > disagree with your points as much as I do, so will > mean that all communities have their voice heard > in your area. Hi Steady Eddy and all - I am sure Peckham Rose can respond to the several points for her in your reply. But this one quoted above needs correcting factually. There are NO elections to the Safer Neighbourhood Ward Panels. They are there for any resident or business in the ward to go along and make their views known. The first step is to get onto their mailing list - to do this cotnact the police or the town hall or ward councillor who can give the details for any ward. Of course if dozens of people started attending one they might have to change the process for that, and have some kind of selection, but for the moment they seem open to anyone with an interest in improving the information channels between the police and the local area.

reggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > is the pyjama protest still on for tuesday YES! So much going on I forgot that immediate action. All welcome - see press release below. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Pyjama Protest - Tuesday 22nd September, 7.30pm, outside Denmark Hill Station Key stations will lose evening service to Victoria if South London Line is scrapped On Tuesday 22nd September campaigners fighting to save the South London Line will stage a pyjama protest outside Denmark Hill Station to highlight the loss of an evening service to Victoria if the line is scrapped. GLA members Val Shawcross and Jenny Jones will be joining the protestors. The campaigners, all clad in their pyjamas, will gather outside Denmark Hill Station at 7.30pm. At present the South London line trains provide Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road with their only service to Victoria after about 7.30pm in the evening. John Stewart, Co-ordinator of Lambeth Public Transport Group, said, "Our pyjama protest will be a fun event with a serious purpose. It is quite absurd that inner London stations will be left with no service to Victoria after 7.30pm. Compare this to places on the underground where trains run until after midnight. It is doubly absurd when we consider that Denmark Hill serves two major hospitals" Transport for London plans to scrap the South London Line when it opens the East London Line Extension to Clapham Junction. The South London Line runs in a loop from Victoria to London Bridge via Battersea Park, Wandsworth Road, Clapham High St, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Queens Road and South Bermondsey. For further information: John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650

The campaign is hotting up again for the autumn. The facts and issues can be complicated so if any Forumites have anything they want clarified please ask in this thread leading up to the public meeting on 30 September ? see info below. IMMEDIATE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS * This week Southwark News are giving away in the paper a copy of their full page poster supporting the Save the South London campaign, available in the shops until this coming Wednesday. Put it up in your own window! * Also the SRUG poster and flyer for the PUBLIC MEETING on WED 30 SEPTEMBER can be downloaded from http://www.southwarkrailusers.net Please print some out for display and distribution (A6 flyers to hand out to fellow passengers on your own station), and also send the info on to your friends and contacts who use the local rail services. We need lots of rail users at this campaign meeting: Wed 30th September, 6.30pm refreshments & networking, 7.00pm - 9.00pm meeting, at Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, SE5 8AF. This meeting is to enable rail users: * to get the facts; * discuss the issues; * join the action. Helpers also needed on the night; to volunteer email [email protected] * London Mayor Boris Johnson will be taking questions from the public at MAYOR?S QUESTION TIME on MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER, 7pm - 9pm, Brixton Academy. He has refused to meet with South London Line Campaigners, so this is your chance to ask him why TfL are proposing that our rail services should be cut. Tickets are free, but are available on a first come, first serve basis - so don't delay! Let us have so many local rail users there that he has to hear us. TO APPLY: email - [email protected] including your name, address, postcode, daytime phone number and the number of tickets you require (max 6 per application) OR call 020 7983 4762. OTHER NEWS * London TravelWatch have just reported on their recent user survey which provides significant evidence to support the campaign. * TfL are reviewing with London TravelWatch the ways that new services or tweaks to existing services could mitigate some of the negative impact of the cuts in the South London Line. This review will report in December so we have till then to try to influence what happens. * The ultimate decision makers are the Rail Minister (and Department for Transport) and the London Mayor (and TfL). A meeting with the Rail Minister is being planned. A meeting has been requested with the Mayor, which he has rejected. Aim to get the message to him at the Brixton Mayor?s Question Time. * Over 3000 signatures have now been collected on the petition. We need more. You can sign the online petition at http://www.gopetition.com/online/27426.html. Also you can print out paper copies and collect signatures - give some to your local cafe or local pub. Petition for download is at http://www.bellenden.net/srug/news/campaign-petition * Visit the SRUG website http://www.southwarkrailusers.net for more information, and for facts about the campaign: http://www.bellenden.net/rail-cuts

Fidoolabra Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do we actually know when this consultation will > start? In the autumn, possibly later in October or November. As soon as FoGG knows we wil aim to post it here, but best to get on to the mailing list to hear directly: go to www.friendsofgoosegreen.org.uk

Friends of Goose Green have produced a poster to publicise the forthcoming consultation. see attached. Can you print it out and get it posted up on notice boards, shop windows or wherever you spot somewhere it can go locally, etc so we can all help to spread the word as much as possible? and also email it on to other local people you know. We all know how easy it is sometimes to miss local consultations, so FoGG is aiming to publicise this well in advance so people can get onto the FoGG mailing list and increase the chances of anyone who cares about or uses Goose Green hearing about it at the right time. FoGG will be at the Peckham Rye Fete tomorrow Saturday 5th September (midday to 5pm). So if you want to come and find about more about FoGG and Goose Green do come and say hello. The Fete is also a really good community event and the food last year provided by the Caf? on their barbecue was great even for vegans as well as everyone else! Highly recommended, and many interests catered for.

Health Matters was a health & beauty salon, I think? Barclays Bank and the one opposite (sorry not mine so never remember its name...) have always been there, as has the Post Office (but we have to watch we don't lose it in the next round of cuts).. Village Way hairdressers was certainly there by 1996, and probably there in 1994? Coop chemists and AJ Farmers the-find-everything-you-need-for-the-house were there, where they are now. Chener Books has been there for ages, and looks it... The card shop near Somerfields was there I think in 1994 with the same owners. The nearby chemist further down on the corner opposite Health Matters was there but was Tanners.

SMBJones Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Markjonathan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > Hi Barry, > > There is a fantastic train service from Peckham > > Rye direct to St Pancras International but as > far > > as I can see it doesn't come up on the big > > indicator board above the ticket office at > P'Rye > > so you have to look on the smaller screen. > Also, > > if I enter Peckham Rye to ST P on the TFL site > it > > suggests I go by bus or change at London > Bridge. > > Is this just a temporary service? Or can it be > > publicised properly? > > Mark > > Hi Mark > First of all sincere apologies for not responding > sooner, just completely missed it. With regards to > the service to St Pancras, this is a SouthEastern > service and not Southern, I was a little miffed by > this.> > Barry Hi Barry I share Mark's concern about this poor advertsing of the through serivce to St Pancras, but I don't know what you mean by being miffed. Can you say a bit more? Is it possible that something can be done to get the service better publcised and explained?

We now have a copy of the map showing the proposed changes at these junctions. Unfortunately I see that it is too big to be loaded on to this site. Instead I suggest that if you want a copy you email the council roads officer: [email protected] And don't forget the exhibition is on Wednesday 12th August 7pm-9pm at 218 Rye Lane, SE15 BNL between Sternhall Lane and Nigel Road. The consultation ends on 31 August. For a copy of the consultation Questionnaire email [email protected]

Hi computedshorty I hadn?t realised I had sent the email by PM. I wondered where it had disappeared to so did it again on the public forum! Thanks for your concern but actually it is OK in this instance. The traffic engineers and officers have been working with us and we actually had a walkabout with them - advertised on this ED Forum about all the issues. There were about 16 of us on the walkabout. This exhibition was a result of that walkabout, as we wanted many more people to see the plans before they go through the next stages. This will include a formal consultation and a leaflet drop to all the houses in the nearby streets we are told. So this exhibition is an extra that they have put on and not instead of the required procedures.

computedshorty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Eileen. There is also for those on the internet > the direct link to this Application that you are > interested in. Put the Application Number here and > all can click on it, read it and post their > replies direct to the council, you can also read > the other interested parties remarks and follow > the progress. > I have to do this for my Society each week it is > so much easier than going to the council offices > and wait while the papers are brought to you then > you try to read reams of documents on a table in a > crowded room, and if you do have to take notes it > takes a long time there. do it from home and take > your time. > Application Number Please. > Or go southwarkboroughcouncil Can you say what you mean about an application? I just know about this as I was told the date to publish by the road/traffic planners in the Council. They said nothing about an application. I have worked hard to get them to rent this window and empty shop for this exhibition. I have asked for more info but they have left it so late that I had to start putting the info out. I may get some more info on Monday. I just hope a lot of people will get to the exhibition as otherwise it is not easy to understand what is being proposed.

The Council are planning changes to the junctions where Nigel Road, Heaton Road and Sternhall Lane meet Rye Lane and Peckham Rye. This is a complicated and dangerous stretch of road, which has been the subject of previous discussions on this Forum. Now is your chance to have a real influence on what happens. The Council has some funding to make that area safer. There will be an exhibition on their proposals next Wednesday 12 August 2009, at 218 Rye Lane, London, SE15 4NL 7.00pm - 9.00pm. This is in the empty shop (previously the betting shop) between Nigel Road and Sternhall Lane. This is right in the middle of the stretch of Rye Lane where all these junctions are. If you use the junctions at all, do try to get to the exhibition to see the plans and talk to Council officers about them. It is the best way to understand what is proposed. Please pass this information on to your neighbours as well. If you have any suggestions for improving that area, please post them here to stimulate some ideas. And if you manage to go to the exhibition please post your views and comments afterwards.