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Well..... EDG this morning...an utter disaster. Idling traffic from LL all the way up. If you are waiting for the 42 or 37 bus...live in hope. All pumping out fumes as they sit in traffic and children walk past to school.

Well I do understand science, because I am a scientist, a specialist in cardio respiratory health. Hence I support anything that reduces asthma in children, especially children from poorer homes living on polluted roads in London. Rosamund is against LTNs for this exact reason https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/mother-of-a-nine-year-old-ella-who-died-from-fatal-asthma-attack-hopes-inquest-will-save-future-lives/. Her daughter died of asthma and she lived on a polluted road. Anyway .... Back to cycling - I think in London separate cycle lanes are the only scheme that will make me feel really safe. There are just too many bad car drivers out there. Do you remember in the first lockdown, less cars, but people were speeding and there was some terrible driving. Sometimes even when just walking the driving scares me, when I cycle I?m scared all the time!

Calton road, no schools, houses 2-3 million, lower than the national average of BAME residents. A car park for the wealthy. I imagine those Chelsea Tractors, Mercs, BMWs drive down EDG...

East Dulwich Grove, schools, high density housing, higher percentage of BAME residents than the national average

Thanks for voicing my concerns, it is unbelievable that a Labour Council is putting in schemes that benefit the wealthy streets with fewer schools to the detriment of the poorest streets with the most schools.

LTNs don?t work, I see that during the school run and cyclists are on the pavement down EDG, also the pavements are a disgrace. The polluted road also means walking is unpleasant. Protected cycle lanes, secure cycle parking and wider pavements are the answer. When I go in to the Uni, I walk and then get a train and walk again, but if there was safe cycle lanes I would cycle all the way. If EDG and LL had protected cycle lanes and secure cycle parking, I think far more people would cycle. All that the LTN does is put me off cycling along my own road. I know of one cyclist who has left her cycling group as she was getting harassed and bullied for being against her local LTN. In reality many people against LTNs are in fact pro-cycling and want less cars on ALL roads.

Time for a socially distanced demo?

Tier 2 is so confusing.... in terms of virology and modes of infection it makes very little sense to me. I like the EDT and the Nuns Head.

https://twitter.com/cleanairdulwich/status/1321404894675423233?s=21

Serena if you stand as a councillor in ED covering EDG I will vote for you....

Oh Rob is great. Love this, thanks Rahrahrah

A sensible take is from the cofounder of the Ella foundation http://ellaroberta.org/ a mum who does actually campaign for more cycle lanes, less car use and more walking. Her daughter died of asthma. The family lived on a busy, polluted road. She is against LTNs as she recognises that LTNs push traffic from roads that have high car ownership onto roads with higher levels of deprivation. As someone said - making sideroads carparks for gated residents to drive their cars on roads less affluent than their own.

LTN pollution is no solution, just moves traffic onto already polluted roads.... love this video!

I do... I have just contacted him and made him aware of your post.

P?t? is a gateway to the harder stuff...rillettes

I walk as a preference, the amount of leaves, dog 💩, rubbish, uncollected Southwark bags, wheelie bins, poor paving makes walking a little more difficult. It is about time Southwark haves is positive reasons to walk rather than polluting high density, low income, poorer areas of the borough.

Thanks Dougie and fairTgirl, as someone whose does live on EDG and cycles and walks for over 90% of my journeys I would like less traffic across Dulwich, but this poorly thought out plan just pushes traffic to dangerous levels on already disenfranchised streets, that really need to be paid more attention by the Council. I can only imagine this is about politics. The areas that traffic has been pushed onto are natural Labour voting areas - I voted Labour in both Council and Parliamentary elections, so are they assuming we will not change our vote, but they are worried about the more affluent areas not voting Labour if the gated community road blocks are removed? By the way 7:00am I witnessed an emergency ambulance perform a U turn on EDG as they could not gain direct access via the gated side streets this morning and had to take a diversion.

Excellent presentation from Dougie, covered all the points. EDG needs an RA...is there anyone with time to set up?

Exactly Rockets...my street is nice because I don?t take a dump in my street. Instead I go to your street and take a big sh*t in you street... see low sh*t neighbourhoods ... sorted. Your street is now full of human poo 💩 but that?s ok that you have more 💩 than normal, because my street has less 💩

Describes the LL portion of EDG, ?It can no longer be acceptable for any transport schemes to be developed which cause increases in traffic volumes on other roads, particularly where there are vulnerable populations like schools and hospitals, and when we know those living in poverty, BAME populations and residents in areas of existing poor air quality are least able to cope with the effects of diseases like COVID-19? So time to rethink the gated community barriers and consider some positive changes for all - protected cycle lanes, easy to use cycle stores, public hire bikes, better wider paving, better more accessible local public transport, cleaner larger bus shelters.

Thank you both

I?m not biased, I?m very much for positive actions to decrease road traffic and pollution. Extra protected cycle lanes and better pedestrian access. More charge points for electric cars and investment into public transport. The point is that in the 30 years of living in ED roads have had incidents that have caused traffic to be diverted, but with LTNs poorly planned an incident can cause more chaos and pollution as there are less ?escape? routes. Calling people biased or labelling them as car loving etc. does not actually move the conversation on. By the way..... I passed at least 10 adult cyclists using the pavement instead of EDG this morning on my walk, one nearly hit a mum with her two kids walking to school...dangerous, noisy and polluting.

The rationale for a lockdown is so our local intensive care units do not fill up with Covid patients. If they do then non-Covid illness, trauma or post-surgical cases will not have access to that high level of medical support. For example, if all ITU beds full and your partner, parent or child has an accident causing trauma that requires intensive care post treatment, they will not have access to a bed and will therefore have an increased risk of a bad outcome. An ITU bed, by the way, isn?t just a ?bed? when we talk about a bed we mean the 2 nurses, the 0.2 WTE medical staff, the 0.2 physiotherapists and the 0.2 Healthcare Scientists required to ?run? a bed for a 24 hr period. This is also why the Nightingale units were a vanity project... no staff to run the beds at this level, so can never be used as intensive services. They were built as places for people to die with large morgues attached. All of us in the know in the NHS at a senior level know what needs to happen. Test and trace needs to be run by the NHS and local health units/councils not SERCO or Tory donor private companies and lock down would be a breathing space for T and T to be set up properly before the extra Winter pressures. Also there is not enough Flu Vaccine, so we are buggered.