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Hi Mark_H - +1 for the Southwark Cyclists Biketrain. A really good way to get your bearings on a friendly and comfortable ride led by experts. I've been helping out with getting some of the "passengers" onwards from Blackfriars towards Westminster and Victoria. Let me know if you'd like more details. Same goes for anyone else on here too. Fed up with the railway? Join the Biketrain!

Park somewhere else or walk from the station. Stop being so selfish. She doesn't need permission to photograph your car.

A: Hand delivered on a silken pillow by James Barber.

I support the plans. The current gyratory is uncomfortable and intimidating to cycle and walk around. As with most one way systems, motor vehicle speeds are far too high. According to Southwark, the stretch that is being closed and turned into a cycle track has the highest speeds in the area, so I am glad that is being tackled. Ultimately this will only work as part of a coherent route so Southwark will also need to tackle the speed and volumes of traffic on Lyndhurst way and do something about the blockage further up Bellenden Rd outside the shops.

This would stop if Southwark made any attempt to penalise illegal parking in this area but they are clearly not interested.

Could it have been a bus? If so, there's a small chance if you can narrow the timeframe down a bit of there being some CCTV. Anyway, sorry to hear about this. As things stand, the penalty for stopping, owning up and repairing the damage you cause is far greater than the penalty on the vanishingly slim chance that you are caught. Hit and runs are positively incentivised.

I agree old_bloke. Even trolling aint what it used to be...

I'm not convinced that Vauxhall gyratory is an inevitable outcome of modern life that we have to accept. Infact, that's the whole point of the plans. It'll be a far better, more modern transport interchange. If you're still using Lambeth Bridge you might want to consider having another look at Vauxhall. They've just opened a segregated bike track over it which is a joy.

TfL are consulting on changes to Vauxhall Cross including more and better public space and more segregated routes for cyclists. If the scheme goes in as currently planned it would be an enormous improvement to an extremely grim bit of town. https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/vauxhall-cross

The only one of the new superhighways that is actually open is the CS5 Oval > Pimlico, and even that isn't properly finished yet and won't be until the link to Nine Elms is complete. As far as I can see, the reports of cyclists not using it come mostly from an extremely dodgy bit of journalism by LBC (quelle surprise!). I ride through there twice every day and it is already chocka with cyclists at peak times. Might be sensible to wait until the North-South and East-West schemes are complete and in use before rushing to judgement.

I don't get this idea that residents weren't consulted properly. The Council held a series of forums and a massive leaflet campaign. I remember contributing to an online consultation a good 12 months before the changes went in. To say the residents are not supportive is wrong. There are plenty of residents in support. Clearly just not as many or as vocal as those in opposition. But anyway, it's done now. Like you I'll be interested to see what alternatives they come up with. Maybe they can find a way to monetise all that lovely through traffic that has returned?

Agree with most of the above. How is extending Boris bikes further South the solution when the environment is so hostile to cycling? Typical of the kind of tinkering around the edges that we've been doing for decades to no avail.

Is there at least some agreement on here that congestion, air pollution and a pretty grim public realm are all problems in that area? Does anyone have any other creative solutions to those problems rather than just moaning about things the council are trying?

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/housing/regeneration/loughborough-junction-what-you-need-to-know Looks like the experimental closure has been largely defeated. Back to the drawing board for Lambeth. Shame.

nunhead_man - Just boring in the way that 2 hour meetings about traffic planning tend to be... And not being entirely serious. They are a lovely bunch and we even got free beer and pizza! Lilaclou - Thank for the info, that tallies with what we talked about on Wednesday. I'll try to keep an eye on it through Southwark Cyclists and report back here. Once it gets to consultation stage it's important that we throw as much weight behind it as possible. Segregated tracks down Peckham Rye East would be transformational but will be fiercely resisted.