Rye lane walk & cycle only from 6/7

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2020/jul/rye-lane-temporary-closure

Rye Lane is being made walking and cycling only from Monday 6 July, with buses diverted and trolleys to help shops with loading. Seeing how busy the footways have been, this seems months overdue, so better late than never for social distancing. The change may last longer than COVID as it will help the works around Peckham Rye station.

This change will increase motor traffic on Bellenden Road and Camberwell Grove however, as happened during the closure for gas works. Camberwell Grove forms part of cycleway 17, the same route Carlton Avenue is on. Clearly the council will need to take urgent measures to filter rat-running through this area too.

I wasn?t aware of this, but it sounds good.

I wonder whether they?ll do anything along Lordship Lane or North cross Road.

so does this mean getting to the station is going to be more difficult? then they wonder why people don't use public transport!!!

what about the customers of Rye Lane - many of which use buses to get there? I am beginning to think Southwark wants to shut us all down?

P13 diverted

https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/status/?input=P13&lineIds=p13&&direction=outbound

rollflick Wrote:

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> https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2020/jul/rye-lan

> e-temporary-closure

>

> Rye Lane is being made walking and cycling only

> from Monday 6 July, with buses diverted and

> trolleys to help shops with loading. Seeing how

> busy the footways have been, this seems months

> overdue, so better late than never for social

> distancing. The change may last longer than COVID

> as it will help the works around Peckham Rye

> station.

>

> This change will increase motor traffic on

> Bellenden Road and Camberwell Grove however, as

> happened during the closure for gas works.

> Camberwell Grove forms part of cycleway 17, the

> same route Carlton Avenue is on. Clearly the

> council will need to take urgent measures to

> filter rat-running through this area too.

What a terrible decision and one that was made during the Covid situation! Many vulnerable people i.e. people that cannot walk or cycle to local destinations are now finding bus routes etc. suddenly stopped.

Mrs D the buses stop at Nigel Road ( other side to the Tesco Express ) and then divert down Copeland Road which is more or less parallel to Rye Lane .

They do not stop near the station ,you need to walk down from the Nigel Road stop .It's the same route used during the works last year when they dug up the road in Rye Lane .

went to Peckham today and the cyclists are swerving all over the road instead of riding in a straight line. looks like some are deliberately trying to be a pain.

I.still use the traffic lights to cross otherwise it's like a game of dodge the cyclist.

If roads are being made vehicle free to facilitate social distancing then pedestrians must have priority on the roads. Perhaps cyclists should be forced to dismount and walk through areas like this.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Yep cyclists are happy to let you know it?s

> ?their? road now, only the pavement bit is for

> pedestrians as far as they are concerned ! Not a

> sense of shared space.

there's 'should be' and 'whats actually practical'.

No one is going to police it.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> there's 'should be' and 'whats actually

> practical'.

> No one is going to police it.

Until someone rings one of these no win no fee lawyers you see on TV all day (could be cyclist or walker or both).

Mind I prefer the lawyer adverts to the ones about "my funeral"

Blah Blah just because you don't observe something others have experienced, doesn't delete their point, nor does it mean hysteria is automatically about to start (although hysteria on EDF is all but guaranteed on most threads!).

I'm sure the other cyclists present when the above observations by walkers were made also thought everything was fine, too.

I've been on Rye Lane before and since - experiencing both fair-shared space and what seem like aggressive 'my patch' cyclists.

It obviously won't be one OR the other for the entirety of every second of every day. You know this already.

But news of a shared space to enable distancing, then experiencing belligerence from others when trying to make use of it to feel safe, will inevitably bother some people when made to feel unsafe.

When it does happen, it's exactly 'jogger mentality'; I've got the momentum, I'm going at speed, it's a pain for me to have to slow down for you, I am taking priority here, just get out of my way, don't use my road, I'm on my way somewhere here while you're only walking, move.

It doesn't mean all cyclists at every time.