Think Van Gogh Walk is a good example how spaces can be used with low traffic & Shakespere Rd is even quiter as Van Gogh Walk still allows all vehicles through part of it.
That's if they don't just cover their plates as the skip lorries have been doing several times a day (until the road was closed for repairs).
What’s the alternative though?
People drive motorbikes through the park to avoid the Hurst Street one
Take photo evidence - like others do. If you have a branded skip truck driving through it is pretty easy to identify.
would be a lot more expensive to administer - but yeah that’s probably the only solution
Automatic sniper rifles that shoot the cunts.
Physical barrier that cannot be driven through. Locked bollard or gate for emergency service access.
I think blue badge access would stop gates being added. Don’t forget taxis are exempt (not Uber) too. Cctv cameras as well as a anpr would probably make it easier to identify serial abusers.
Have you tried sending photos to the council?
Yeah. They know about it but I think it’s a case of catching him in the act. Technically, covering your number plate is one for the cops
Is JD still "all over this" since the election?
Interesting that they originally put two sets of barriers in on St Matthews Road with a pedestrian area in between opposite the tenants hall. Almost immediately they removed one of the gates because the pedestrian area was taking up too much parking space (according to the LTN team). Now that they are making it permanent, they are putting back the two gate scheme rather than the one they tested. From the drawing it looks like a much larger pedestrian area. Whichever proposal anyone "feels" is best - it looks like they are going with the one which they decided was a bad idea and did not test.
Blaming people driving through on someone who painted over a handful of signs is a hopeful distraction from reality. The fault is poor implementation and lack of enforcement. If you try to engage with Lambeth about it it the responses are at best unhelpful or at worst obstructive. (Surely?) we know there is always going to be a core of people who will try to get away with things simply because they know that consequences are extremely unlikely. Brixton has always been so. Shrugging shoulders at it or blaming it on a bogeyman undermines the whole scheme.
Not sure what you need to test. Think the church weren’t keen about the lack of parking outside, and was an easy change, but not really their call. Makes sense to pedestrianise outside the church and community centre in my view.
Implementation is not limited to the physical gate design. Like you say - illegal use of the Shakespeare one is rife. People have sent in numerous photos and videos which clearly identify culprits including names on vehicles and number plates and photos of individuals. For months. Lambeth does not know what to do about it. So they obstruct enquiries and shrug. In the end they will probably park a CCTV car covered in warning signs by the gate and when no one drives through that day they'll say that there is no problem.
I don't see people driving through the St Matthews one all that often anymore.
isn't the issue likely to be that the motorbikes in the park (and the covered number plates) are a police matter so, like speeding, it comes down to police resources?
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Bizarre comments that completely miss the point.Predictably, this article about SUVs has turned into an irresistible magnet for comments from the utterly obsessed anti LTN brigade.
Climate change activists let down the tyres of luxury SUV vehicles in Dulwich
Climate activists The Last Gasp deflated the tyres of environmentally unfriendly SUV vehicles around Dulwich last night. They told Brixton Buzz:
Someone has compared the activists to the Taliban now.
It is really crazy. I’m obviously a big supporter but if there is any valid arguments against LTNs it gets drowned out by the vast number of nutters and no one (including chowce5382) calls them out.
Think OneLambeth’s Ian Armstrong posting it to his weird Nextdoor group explains the comments.
