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It looks like the two new Conservative council candidates in the Village are supportive of change to the current LTN proposals https://www.southwarkconservatives.org.uk/news/dulwich-conservatives-announce-candidates-dulwich-village-ward

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/dulwich-review?chapter=2 The response from the Council on the consultation beggars belief when they use the following flowery language about the?.. ?Co-design of the public realm at the junction of Calton Avenue with Dulwich Village and Court Lane allows for community led involvement in shaping the public realm to become a visually impressive, aesthetically pleasing local asset supporting walking and cycling routes within the village and acting as a hub for the wider active travel networks.? As if there isn?t enough walking routes in the village with 3 parks, and the widest pavements going. Great way of saying ?we?ll do nothing!?.

It?s ridiculous to conflate any increase or decrease in cycling with the Dulwich Village or Melbourne Grove LTN. As a cyclist I will use normal roads, cycle highways, or cycle lanes. The issue is the increase or decrease in car traffic on surrounding streets. As a cyclist the LTNs have made other roads much more dangerous for me, as stopped traffic is much more dangerous and also polluting to cycle through than free flowing traffic.

Balfe bikes are a great shop?attentive and helpful staff

How the F**k in air quality report do they think they can ?Viability testing of the target to reduce traffic by 90% by 2030?

As reported in the Financial Times today, TfL are considering using the uLEZ for raising revenue. It was pretty obvious from when this was first mooted that this would happen eventually. This will really reduce traffic in the area, but the South Circular will become horrendous?.. TfL officials have set out several options including a new Greater London Boundary charge for cars driving into London. Other possible measures involve a big expansion of the capital?s congestion charge zone, extending it out to the two inner London ring roads, known as the north and south circular.

An interesting article by London Councils that develops the ?nudge theory? approach https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/download/file/fid/26353 Though nudges also need harder deterrents, and schools should have parent exclusion zones from car stopping around them.

If all the local schools did a short survey of how all their children got to the school it would be a useful idea of how much active travel was in the area. Instead of the Council spending money on planters, a fixed term contract for a project officer to speak to pupils and schools about what the Council could do to support them would be helpful. You could even have a league table of most active schools. I?m sure Charter East Dulwich, Harris, and the local primary schools would do pretty well! The survey would communicate to those parents who drive their children from within and outside Southwark to state and private schools that behaviours need to change, and to seek their comments on what would help them change.

If Sadiq Khan says the LTNs are here to stay, and local roads are not for local people, can?t see Southwark Council changing anything! Amazing that he said the following in an Independent article ?Our roads should be limited to blue light services, to electricians, to plumbers, to commercial drivers, to taxis, to those that need to use our roads - delivery drivers and so forth - rather than individuals that could be walking, cycling and using public transport.? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-traffic-b1834758.html

I feel for the difficult decisions Councillors must make. Climate change, accusations of not doing enough, or doing the wrong things. Lobbied from all angles, and never getting it quite right for everyone. However, probably the worst thing they can be accused of in all of this is being called systemically racist. In Lewisham, the legal ramifications of the judgement in the death of Ms Kissi-Debrah?s daughter has led to knee jerk responses by councillors to drive down traffic in South London. Ms Kissi-Debrah is a very admirable woman and a true green campaigner, but she also a pragmatist. Her views on LTNs says a lot, that our local Southwark councillors should reflect on....https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18616846.air-quality-voice-rosamund-kissi-debrah-slams-lee-green-ltn/

@slarti b....oops my mistake....I agree with your sentiment! :)

Some tactical voting in the May elections is in order. The only party that takes residents views about LTNs seriously is the Conservatives. Based on 2018 election results, Dulwich Village is the area where it?s possible. A few 100 votes between Labour and Tory parties. Though Dulwich Hill appears to be Labour stronghold through and through. The only Tory councillor in Lambeth sums up the views of many of us on this forum who don?t believe LTNs are the answer https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2020/11/tim-briggs-the-left-are-using-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-as-an-ideological-tool-to-undermine-wealth-creation.html

Malambu your argument is logical fallacy. No one disagrees that roads are for all users. The only problem with the LTNs are that they are for one user i.e cyclists. No one on this forum is anti cyclist, cycle lanes, and other such improvements would be welcomed by everyone.

I?ve always thought that the best way to determine the impact of these changes was through the data available from mobile phone apps such as Waze, TomTom or google maps. If you could capture a map of the area to show traffic densities in colour as a moving image over time, it would be a very powerful and irrefutable argument for the impact of the various measures for or against the councils road management policies. It appears TfL use this data, and there are many articles about how it can be used at a granular level for even incidents occurring on a single day. All the petitions, surveys and consultations mean nothing. Only hard data can win the argument that these road traffic measures need to be amended or removed. I attach an interesting article from Wired https://www.wired.co.uk/article/waze-uk-london

Sad, but true!

They?re a regular occurrence. The only way to stop it is put your car key in a metal box. Our car was constantly opened on kelmore grove until I started putting the key in one

I see the Southwark Council petition closed on the 21/12 with over 3,000 active local resident signatures. What more information does the Council need that these road closures must be reversed http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=500000049&RPID=774261212&HPID=774261212&$LO$=1 Those in favour of the road closures should set up their own epetition, and if you even get 500 votes I?d be amazed!

It?s more criminal that he?s wearing dirty grey jogging bottoms - ffs where?s his sense of sartorial elegance!!!

With all the rain we?ve had, damp can affect certain walls with plugs

More likely a possible electric fault. Close doors to rooms over night and then see if smell is greater in one room than others.

Let?s blame the Conservatives for everything that is wrong in Southwark. The Labour party has 49 councillors and the Liberal Democrats party has 14 councillors in Southwark. My historical knowledge of council political representation is not great, but it?s always been dominated by Labour. Check the council?s website https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/councillors-and-mps/your-councillors

Monkey where is it penetrating and photos would help. Sometimes it as easy as poor ventilation

Such a shame...many an enjoyable few hours spent!

There have been lots of epititions against various road closures, the following on Southwark Council website needs your support. All road closures should stop until the ULEZ is introduced http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2EjciR7W9R82QIdwNFKWphihIGaFJb1D2slMeVlnCaLfCJoN2soOEoQsg&id=500000049&TPID=772825867&$LO$=1