Petition: re-open Rye Lane to buses

[fottos]

Hidden away in Southwark's document is their estimate that the cost of re-opening Rye lane is ?200,000 !!!

The could have saved that by not closing it in the first place.

Similarly , 2 years ago they re-worked the Dulwich Village / Calton Avenue junction at a cost of ?500,000 only to close it completely after 6 months because of LTN.

Similarly the re-worked the EDG/Townley Rd junction at a cost of ?400,00 only to close it a year later becaus of LTN.

Needless to say there are other such blatant examples of wasted money within the Borough.

This Council is seriously INEPT and a good clean out is required next May.

https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s100450/Report%20Reopening%20Rye%20Lane.pdf

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> https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryH

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[Nigello]

HOw can it possibly cost anything to simply reverse a decision? I can see that it may take a bit of cash to remove lines on the road, but what else? I am staggered.

[richard tudor]

fottos Wrote:

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> Hidden away in Southwark's document is their

> estimate that the cost of re-opening Rye lane is

> ?200,000 !!!

>

> The could have saved that by not closing it inn=

> the first place.

> Similarly , 2 years ago they re-worked the Dulwich

> Village / Calton Avenue junction at a cost of

> ?500,000 only to close it completely after 6

> months because of LTN.

> Similarly the re-worked the EDG/Townley Rd

> junction at a cost of ?400,00 only to close it a

> year later becaus of LTN.

>

> Needless to say there are other such blatant

> examples of wasted money within the Borough.

>

> This Council is seriously INEPT and a good clean

> out is required next May.

>

>

> >

> >

> https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryH

>

> > ome.aspx?IId=50026987

Perhaps you might be interested in these figure for the brown bins when they started to charge and people did not want them anymore.

With regard to leaf picking up by residents perhaps you might be interested in the following, it took 6 months for the figures to be released.

Perhaps they should should consider how they waste money.

Dear Mr Tudor,

Please excuse the delay in replying to you regarding the brown bin subscription scheme. I can provide the following answer to your questions

1. How many people took up the offer to pay in the first year- 11902

2. How many people had their brown bins collected as they no longer wanted them - number of brown bins removed was 13,727 bins

3. Please see the table below which sets out the areas of one off expenditure and final costs for the initial roll-out of the service in 2019/20.

Description

Cost

Communications

?37,418

Container removal

?40,812

Container Purchase

?89,599

Container delivery

?57,190

Container repair

?10,190

Consultancy

?10,052

IT configuration

?9,524

Total

?254,785

The initial roll-out costs include a number of one-off expenditure items that are unique to the set up of the new service. Therefore, total expenditure is relatively high in the first year compared to the anticipated level of expenditure in following years.

The estimated level of expenditure to maintain the service from year two onwards is actually ?50k.

I hope this information is useful.

Best wishes,

[BrandNewGuy]

I'm not cynical by nature, but 'follow the money' is a useful rule of thumb. Notice how keen the Council is on any measure for which funds have been promised from central government (bicycle lanes, re-worked junction at EDG/Townley Road, emergency COVID measures, LTNs etc etc..). I appreciate that they're hard up these days, but they jump at the chance of funding before the issue has been properly thought out or consulted on.

But again without being cynical, government seems to enjoy providing funds to local government for projects that might prove unpopular, thus diverting attention from the government's own failings.