Dulwich Village Junction

[smooch]

the calton/court lane junction now looks even more horrendous - there are around 10 x no car/no bike signs attached to all the barricades and any available spot. It looks utterly awful and I dread to think how much that lot cost.

I have to say I am fed up with the complete lack of understanding of how that space is meant to work (the council have not really been helpful in addressing this) - bikes whizzing all over the place with no idea of which side of the road (in the car free area) they are meant to be. I cycle thru there several times a week and the school times are a shocker. Dads on cargo bikes jumping the lights, kids and toddlers wandering around the car free area but with bikes still gunning thru, bikes swerving about on pavements - the lack of cars has created some sort of cycle anarchy.

grumpy old cyclist....

[Nigello]

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[apbremer]

Absolute shambles For some extraordinary reason the electorate voted back the half wits who devised at huge cost the whole crazed scenario. I despair.

[mrwb]

LTNs have silent majority support it seems from the elections. Probably because lots of people get quieter streets and the people getting fined, are the ones who don't know the area and therefore probably don't live and can't vote here..!

[Penguin68]

LTNs have silent majority support it seems from the elections. Probably because lots of people get quieter streets and the people getting fined, are the ones who don't know the area and therefore probably don't live and can't vote here..!

I thinks that's complete rubbish - the election was fought and won far more on the grounds of national politics in general as well as disgust with some of the antics at No 10 and views about prices, tax and so on. This area has ben solidly Labour for some time; the little local difficulty with LTNs notwithstanding most people ignored that with an opportunity, mid-term, to wave a warning flag at the Tories. Nobody was so stupid as to believe that LTNs in Dulwich would be sufficient to topple the Labour apparat in Southwark or to change a damn thing locally.

[Bic Basher]

Same in Lewisham where an equally controversial LTN scheme led to Labour being a one party council yet again.

[borderpaul]

I do think the Labour party plays a much better game in the local elections. In my local ward, they got three seats with 52% of the vote leaving the other 48% who voted unrepresented.

The Greens got 23% split amongst 3 candidates. I'd say their vote would have stayed the same if they had just one candidate and they would have got that one candidate elected as they would have beaten the lowest labour candidate who got 15%.

I would agree it is complete rubbish that it was an election on LTNs or make assumptions about the quiet people who may not live on quiet streets.

grumpy old cyclist No.2 .........

[Boddle]

I cycle that route on the school run daily and agree its a total mess. Pedestrians (including small children) wandering into the road, no clear directions for cyclists coming from different directions, delivery vans parking right across the road. The lights for the crossing have been covered for months so no-one walking knew if it was a green light for bikes- consequently I've met a lot of people asking if the bike signals are working, given the state of it all. Feels like only a matter of time before there's an accident.

[Nigello]

The lawlessness continues past the junction up to the park entrance near the Gallery - the pavement from the corner cemetery to the park gate is often used by cyclists of the “nice” kind who obviously think that because they’re upper-middle class and are cycling on expensive bikes with tots and/or pooches it’s magically legal to ride on the pavement.

[ianr]

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