Road closures in east dulwich

[tedfudge]

• Glengarry Road (East Dulwich): Thames Water road closure, Aug 4-Nov 3
• Thornecombe Road (East Dulwich): Thames Water road closure, Aug 4-Nov 3
• Hillsboro Road (East Dulwich): Thames Water road closure, Aug 4-Sept 18
• Desefans Road (East Dulwich): Southwark Council road closure, Aug 16
• Spurling Road (East Dulwich): TfL road closure, Jul 28-Aug 24
• Playfield Crescent (East Dulwich): Southern Gas Networks road closure, Jul 25-Aug 25

[ianr]

Can you give us a link to your information source please?

[Penguin68]

I'm guessing it's an edit of the two news stories about Southwark roadworks overall I posted on another thread. Just picking up helpfully the ED roads. 

Edited July 28 by Penguin68

[tedfudge]

10 hours ago, ianr said:

Can you give us a link to your information source please?

Its on the southwark news website 

https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/community/drivers-face-a-total-of-30-road-closures-over-the-summer-when-driving-through-southwark/ 

[spider69]

Another road closed this morning. Chadwick Road/Grove Park closed. From the amount of barriers looks like being for a long time.

Forgot to add no entry through to Camberwell Grove SE5

[spider69]

The closure and works will take approx 3 months we have been informed.

Can Southwark explain where residents are expected to park with all the parking restrictions in place. Parking is already full in other streets quite some way from Chadwick Road.

It means many people with disabilities will find life very very difficult. 

 

[Rockets]

What's going on with the roadworks on Townley Road at the junction of EDG?

[Pugwash]

Also going t o be road works in Etherow Street for 2 weeks mid August subject to TFL agreeing to move (temporary) the 40 bus stand. Also parking restrictions for residents.

[tedfudge]

Getting out of hand with all these road closures and road works around dulwich area... like some of you have already mentioned that parking is getting worse as certain roads closed etc... 

[Katherty]

On 29/07/2025 at 14:14, Rockets said:

What's going on with the roadworks on Townley Road at the junction of EDG?

i tried to take an alternative route in an Uber to get to Denmark Hill - to avoid goose green - but then got stuck in these instead! Have these appeared recently? 

[Rockets]

Does anyone know what those Calton ones are for? They have installed a four-way traffic signal set-up - they appear to be doing something along the pavement on Townley as it was all coned off yesterday.

[Penguin68]

First thing this morning (8.00am) traffic lights were installed at the junction of Wood Vale and Langton Rise - and switched on.  A section of road in Wood Vale was coned off. So far (13.30) there has not been any sign of any workmen doing anything. By all means install the lights in advance, if that works best for you, but don't switch them on, or cone off a section of road, until workmen arrive. Unless you really really couldn't care less for the taxpayers who are paying your wages - oh, but of course, you don't - Southwark or Lewisham (the works are on the border) apparat, do you?

[malumbu]

I understand that this work is being done by workers who do not identify as men.

[Penguin68]

Really, and if these people do ever turn up are you going to see them to confirm that? And can I watch? 

[malumbu]

You will be pleased that there  were workers there yesterday, I didn't confirm their gender but to be safe, apart from reference to the subpostmasters's scandal where the term applies to both genders, I use gender neutral words for professions.  There were no long queues of traffic, so nothing really to go on about.  In fact I'm not sure why I am posting.

Edited, inspected and a really nice repair to the road, well down Conway, I may send them a nice email.  It's good to have some positivity!

Edited August 3 by malumbu

[tedfudge]

Temporary 4 way traffic lights at junction of Crystal palace road and east dulwich road again , water main burst again.. passed through this morning and lights stuck on red.

[tedfudge]

Lights are still stuck on red and there was nobody there doing any work 

[alice]

On 02/08/2025 at 09:16, malumbu said:

You will be pleased that there  were workers there yesterday, I didn't confirm their gender but to be safe, apart from reference to the subpostmasters's scandal where the term applies to both genders, I use gender neutral words for professions.  There were no long queues of traffic, so nothing really to go on about.  In fact I'm not sure why I am posting.

Edited, inspected and a really nice repair to the road, well down Conway, I may send them a nice email.  It's good to have some positivity!

Can you stop using the word gender when you mean sex. 

[malumbu]

I think gender is appropriate:

(AI view): Sex and gender are distinct concepts, though they are often confused. Sex generally refers to biological characteristics like chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs, while gender encompasses a person's internal sense of self as male, female, or non-binary, and the social and cultural roles associated with each.

OED says similar.  A lounge conversation,

[HeadNun]

I'm glad it was easy to establish, with a simple glance, that the workmen's sex aligned with their internal sense of self as male, female or non binary. 

Thank God for AI. It's been such a grey area for millennia but now the issue's crystal clear. 

 

[jazzer]

Traffic lights, (3 - way) Junction of Woodvale with Melford Road this morning, 06/08/25

On 29/07/2025 at 09:57, spider69 said:

Another road closed this morning. Chadwick Road/Grove Park closed. From the amount of barriers looks like being for a long time.

Forgot to add no entry through to Camberwell Grove SE5

Any idea wht the impact re-routing will be for P13?

[Penguin68]

16 minutes ago, jazzer said:

Any idea wht the impact re-routing will be for P13?

No impact, the P13 doesn't use the Underhill to Woodvale stretch of Melford. However that stretch of road is used by the 363 (both ways), but traffic is flowing relatively freely at the moment, but the work that the lights are for is on the south bound Woodvale just north of the roundabout there. When it starts. That will slightly hold up the 363 as it routes to Crystal Palace.

More serious is the A205 (South Circular) entirely blocked just west of Alleyn Park Road for a block - I'm guessing emergency water works but I couldn't get close enough to confirm.

[exdulwicher]

30 minutes ago, Penguin68 said:

More serious is the A205 (South Circular) entirely blocked just west of Alleyn Park Road for a block - I'm guessing emergency water works but I couldn't get close enough to confirm.

Thames Water indeed.

Closed til 9pm today (6th Aug) it reckons.

[malumbu]

Yes, I cycled up to Tootling and back, massive crater on the South Circ, then further lights up before Tulse Hill - may be connected, and as for Streatham High Road....  Clearly Lambeth and Southwark have it in for motorists.  They should coordinate their road works with Thames Water's catastrophic failures of the water mains.

Edited August 7 by malumbu