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If anyone needs to travel along Forest Hill Rd there has been a serious accident at the junction with Dunstans Rd. Police have taped off the junction and traffic is very backed up in both directions and traffic is unable to cross from Any direction. Very sad to say it looks like a really bad motorbike accident.

Does anyone know what happened? I ask because it's such a dangerous section of road and wonder whether more complaints ought to be made to Southwark regarding the speed at which people hurtle down FHR.


I do hope everyone involved is okay.

Different accident. I live round the corner and only saw the police taped off area. I do hope all involved are okay.


I use this junction every day, mostly on bike but often in the car and personally don't find it any more precarious than others. Now that the crossing time for pedestrians seems to have been sorted its safer for them, traffic still travels in excess of the 20mph limit, perhaps more enforcement of that would be good. especially given the number of school children/park users that use it.

That junction used to be controlled by a pelian crossing that worked fine, then the bureaucrat know betters decided to install traffic lights, the result, long traffic delays and accidents. The sooner the lights are removed and the pelican crossing is re-instated the better.

dbboy Wrote:

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> That junction used to be controlled by a pelian

> crossing that worked fine, then the bureaucrat

> know betters decided to install traffic lights,

> the result, long traffic delays and accidents. The

> sooner the lights are removed and the pelican

> crossing is re-instated the better.


I agree. A big difference before the lights were put in was that the road seemed narrower at the junction (I think I remember it being zebra crossings) so a good proportion of drivers would naturally slow down and go through cautiously and carefully. With the introduction of lights people tend to speed up instead to try and catch the green. Also, like you said, it was only after the change that the dreadful daily queues began.

Kford is correct. I remember when they were installed, when there were water works going on. Why, if they were meant to be temporary, are they still there? I am sure someone with knowledge of bureaucracy knows which person to email. Can anyone help?
This was discussed a while back - I will try and find the references for you (I posted about it on here, but there were some formal communications too) - Southwark Council, supported by the councillors for the relevant ward, decided to keep the lights for safety reasons and because it wasn't accepted they significantly adversely impacted traffic (so the positive safety reasons - particularly for pedestrians - outweighed the said-to-be small impact on traffic).

Here you go. I can't find the actual decision where they decided to keep the lights (but re-phase them) on the Southwark site, but someone else may have better luck.


http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,727555


http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200431/street_improvements/2585/forest_hill_road

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