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Traffic light timings at the Plough junction are causing long tail backs down Lordship - yesterday was awful - it increases both noise and air pollution for residents on Lordship Lane (of which I am one), as well as making it unpleasent for anyone walking by. I have emailed TFL, but the phone line I can find is for emergencies only - does anyone have any thoughts?
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Magpie, only to say that I have noticed this too over the last couple of weeks - it seems as if the lights going from Lordship Lane towards Forest Hill have been rephased so that there are two different phases of green light - a "normal" phase on green which lets about 5-6 cars through, and then the next phase on green is very short (only 2 cars can get through). All of the phases coming the other ways (both from Forest Hill towards Lordship Lane and going from Barry Road to Dulwich Village and vice versa) seem to be operating the way they always did.


Maybe try contacting James Barber - he has recently posted about the phasing of traffic lights in ED.

We live on Lordship Lane, near The Plough and have endured this for the last few weeks. It's really unpleasant. Yesterday we 'phoned Southwark Council; the guy answering was helpful and took down an account of the problem. We got the feeling that it is a TFL thing; odd because it will be affecting their buses. Anyway, he did request the Council get back to us on this, once and if action was taken. We'll see what happens.
I have also contacted James Barber on this - and spoke to Southwark Council, who said it was TFL, and then TFL said its Southwark! I believe James reported it on Friday, but it was still a problem yesterday, and this morning. I watched the lights for about 5 minutes yesterday - it goes green for a literally a matter of seconds to let a couple of cars through, then for every few cycles it will stay green longer and clear some of the backlog.

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