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Serena is absolutely right, that junction is dangerous, but Southwark messed up the positioning of the pedestrian crossing just up from that junction and the Townley Rd/EDG junction caused an uplift in idling and polluting traffic as soon as it was put in. They need a new planner.

This is something Southwark Council needs to be congratulated for..... more trees please 🌳

You still have to drive down EDG to get to the LTNs, so the traffic will increase on EDG.

Go out to buy essentials ... otherwise stay at home. We are all bored of it, we all want to have fun, we all want to eat nice tasty pork buns, but the selfish and thoughtless actions of some people will cost lives. Yes, this Government is useless and yes the message has been confused and mixed, but we all know what we should be doing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/10/london-hospital-trust-cancels-urgent-cancer-surgery-covid-barts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Government has defunded mental health services over the past 10 years. There has been an extreme shortage of acute and emergency ?beds? for children and adults in London for years. I have been campaigning for these services to be increased so young people in London are not transferred 100 of miles for an emergency bed, but....the current issue is there will be NO emergency beds for anyone ...acute or chronic in 14 days time. So yes, I do worry about mental health issues, I worry about my burnt out colleagues at King?s, GSTT, Barts, Georges, Imperial...I worry about my friends with risk factors who haven?t seen anyone for a year. But it is about access to care. Don?t break a leg, don?t have a stroke and don?t get diagnosed with cancer.......

There is no baseline data, but also the dangerous particulates that are caused by vehicles (including electric cars) have never been measured by Southwark council. These particulates have now been implicated by research healthcare scientists, as causal factors for cancers, heart disease and developmental lung disorders due to inflammatory processes. So I plan to move from EDG as soon as I can, as Southwark appears to not give a flying shit about the health of residents living outside of the nice, cosy LTNs.

I chatted on line with my partner Trust Education leads last week...all working in Cardiology, we ?joked? that we were going to be careful when cooking, running, cycling etc.why? Because if you break a leg, cut your hand or are in an RTA, treatment or surgery will be delayed, even as an emergency to save a limb as there are NO recovery ITU beds available in London... and if you have children...be warned, paediatric ITUs are now Covid wards. So please stay home, wear a mask and DO NOT SOCIALISE outside of your household group.

Dear James, Has the pollution and traffic increase of the new mega-nursery on East Dulwich Grove been assessed? How will the increased risk to health from NO2 and particulates caused by increased traffic be mitigated and will any compensation be provided to residents of EDG for the increase in pollution and noise be given.

Great ...more traffic on EDG! Every one deserves clean air. Even those of us not living in a LTN.

My colleagues in the NHS are at breaking point. My best friend was called on NYEve to call around his team to ask for volunteers for the intensive care unit .... to help prone patients and act as assistants to the ITU team as they were so short handed. I?m so glad that people had access to a nice pork bun! Seriously 😑 I don?t blame the guys selling food on the stall...it must be hard if that is their only income. The Government should pay people to stay at home, if you can?t pay your rent or mortgage you can end up homeless...which won?t help the NHS as it increases morbidity and pressure on health services. But.....Southwark need to work within the crap parameters that this incompetent Government have given us. I think making masks mandatory if people want to run stalls and shop in the market is a good compromise.

Dreadful traffic on East Dulwich Grove right now, standing traffic from LL up to the lights, horrid for cyclists, horrid for anyone walking, horrid and dangerous to residents, must be due to road works, Christmas tree sale, it being Friday...um....

My reality is across 35 years of living in the same street and flat. There was a noticeable difference in traffic on EDG after the LTNs. All I am asking is for Southwark to monitor the air quality on this road and other roads that now have more traffic, which regularly idles during the school run. It is not about being disgruntled about car access to roads as I walk or use public transport, it about not subjecting vulnerable residents to elevated and illegal pollution. The hypocrisy of people who own more than one car, who live in a LTN, but call someone like me to be pro-car and not caring about the environment is astounding. Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, who?s daughter Ella died of asthma is an activist and campaigner for cleaner air for Londoners - she believes that LTNs push traffic onto resedential roads with higher density housing and all the issues that accompany such housing. Southwark needs to start measuring and monitoring car exhaust pollution..no excuses.

A cat?

So today...I?m gaslighted by Christmas trees... see how it goes..Oh the traffic is heavier.its because of Christmas trees... New Year...oh it?s the fireworks...look it?s busy on EDG... Easter Bunny...oh now it?s Summer Solstice..look at all those pagans running amok around LL...always a reason..never the LTNs. Can you honestly not see how completely ridiculous this is..it would be laughable if it wasn?t endangering lives. I?m not being overly dramatic, coroners case right now due to the death of an asthmatic child.

I like the walk to Flock and Herd, I always feel I have earned my bacon sandwich by the hour and a half round stroll. 😋

I do love the way people tell me I am incorrect in saying the traffic on EDG is worse than before the LTNs went in, despite the fact I have lived in the same house and same road for 30 years. I?m told it is ?roadworks, when it?s lockdown I?m told it?s ?lockdown? when it?s Friday I?m told it?s because it?s a ?Friday?, when it?s Saturday, I?m told it?s because it?s a ?Saturday?, when it?s the school run I?m told it?s the ?school run?, or I?m told it will ?bed in? or that there are just ?too many cars on the road? so I will just have to put up with car users from Calton Ave, Melbourne etc driving on my road... but that?s ok because who cares about EDG residents, or the schools, or the nurseries. I?m sure residents on LL feel like they are also being constantly gaslighted. One friend on Twitter with children was told by one person, she should move from EDG and if she didn?t she was a selfish mother. LTNs work in a overall plan of traffic reduction, with public transport and cycling/walking infrastructure... LTNs in isolation create more traffic on roads outside the LTNs if this infrastructure is not in place - a bonus for a few residents with increased pollution and health inequality for others.

I love this picture...you should defo do the cheese shops and the fishmongers. 😋

Hopefully, the current court case about pollution on a residential main road, being part of the cause of a child?s death, will concentrate the mind of Southwark Council. They should be measuring the pollution on residential ?main? roads, where traffic from historically lower traffic roads has been diverted and now idles twice a day during the times children and parents walk their children to school.

East Dulwich Grove - 3 schools. Calton Ave - zero schools. LTN in Calton, traffic diverted to EDG.

mmmmhh putting your rubbish..even leaves into a brown bin that one hasn?t paid for is pretty much an invite for neighbours falling out I have found. Also my neighbours on my strip do not have brown bins as they don?t have gardens or have very small ones. As I say, if Southwark provides me with 4 bags over autumn I will happily sweep my patch.

I used to sweep the leaves and put in my brown bin, but as I haven?t got one or any free bags I can?t sweep up leaves from the street trees. I love those trees, so maybe if the council provide us with the big bags we can at least sweep our front gardens/drives and a little bit of the pavement.

Long tailed tits.... a whole little gang of them 😁

The thing is James, I live on EDG and I witness the terrible idling traffic every morning at school rush hour. I witness cycles using the pavement and young children walking past idling cars at the level of car exhausts breathing in high levels of particulates, NO2 and other poisons. I also know how these reduce lung growth in children and exacerbate asthma. We can all moan about who is rude, who is inappropriate etc. The fact is that as my councillor you are not standing up for my health or of anyone who lives on EDG, as it does not fit the narrative of a ?lobby? funded by Southwark council. By all means reduce traffic and pollution across the borough, but shame on all Labour councillors for ignoring the neighbourhoods with the highest percentage of inequality in the borough.

It is possible to be pro-cycling, a cyclists, a green campaigner and be against the pollution and increased traffic caused by poorly planned LTNs....there are complexities that have not been addressed by Southwark?s intransigence, either due to abject wilfulness or just plain stupidity.

I think Firstmate reflects my thoughts. I?m not ?against? LTNs I?m against increases in traffic and pollution on other residential, school roads caused by poor planning of LTNs. When I look on Twitter I see photos from the ?lobby? of almost exclusively middle class white children in areas of a million+ housing, playing and cycling in car free roads. If the ?lobby? was honest and also reflected and posted photos of LL and EDG during times of idling traffic pumping out fumes, during the school run it would be a realistic view of the current state of play. To witness small children walking and in pushchairs breathing in car fumes on EDG during these times of increased pedestrian travel is heartbreaking and probably illegal in terms of pollution levels. It?s a question of inequality that has been caused by a Labour council, I?m ashamed I voted for them.