There is a creeping inevitability that all residential roads will become CPZ. The first area to be controlled - Dagmar to Vestry - occurred the same week the last staff moved from Southwark Town Hall (maybe no surprise they looked after their own first, although they do deny this, and say it was merely coincidence). This had the knock on effect that the roads east became gridlocked as Grove Lane and so on are experiencing now. This caused a vocal few who did not want the inconvenience of having to park off their own road to petition for CPZ. It doesn't take many to influence the results while there are low turn outs. Southwark can then say they are merely doing the will of the residents, whilst getting extra revenue. Every CPZ will cause extra inconvenience and gridlock in the surrounding areas and the pattern repeats itself until the whole borough is CPZ. Why they can't use this new revenue to sort out the bridge is beyond me....it looks as though they are trying to use the vocal few to postpone/cancel the reopening of Grove Bridge. Watch out ED - CPZ is coming for you!
