It helps though, and they've brought in wands down by the side of Brockwell park, once you get down to Brixton you can use a Bus lane all the way up to Oval and get on the Cycle super highways there.
Bus lanes you mean?
I just don't get this. I am by no means a hardened cyclist but I cycled the length of Railton every day - more often than not with a child on board. Yes it can be luxuriously empty now (of bikes and cars) but it was also rarely the hell track I hear described on here. There were random speeders before and there are random speeders still. Buses still floor it. People still overtake just to cut you up at junctions from time to time. Occasionally drivers even try to push past me in the new gates, which is hairy. I still cycle almost daily between Brixton to Herne Hill and usually choose to cycle on the Dulwich road because it is so very slightly shorter than via Railton and also does not feel dangerous.
By whom? I can believe it was too expensive in the past but I don't imagine that the main tech is all that different from what is now being used to monitor the gates (which three months on they still have not fitted in St Matthews Road). But I don't know.
It's been done before. No resistance. BIR zone.
Sounds like you have encapsulated the entire issue in three sentences.
That’s a great response thanks for being honest. That’s all we are saying, allow some flexibility in the decision taken. Don’t just steam ahead at all costs if right across London communities are flagging up the same issues. Find a flexibility, pause and consult the parts of the communities who are telling you they are struggling and LAMBETH don’t call residents in Shakespeare Rd who set up www.onerailton.co.uk website ‘members of the BNP with shady funding’!!! (Yep! that’s what they are saying!!) just because we disagreed with you and think traffic evaporation is a ‘myth’!! Lizzie Berrington ( that’s my ‘not shady’ Equity Union
Yup, that sounds about right, it's a major rat run. In fact Lambeth identified the ward as the one with the second highest traffic problems in the borough (after Oval). Still waiting for an LTN though....
And you might be conveniently overestimating how "hardened" I am because it fits your narrative. My post was comparing experiences of two everyday local London cyclists on a specific road which we both know. Of course I might look "hardened" to you as you rarely ride bikes. My three year old on his balance bike is probably indistinguishable from Kyle Evans from where you are googling. Nevertheless, your own reluctance to travel on two wheels does not make me a hardened cyclist.
CHL has been a lot busier recently. I obviously don't like it because I live on the street and am going to suffer from the increased pollution. I'd like to have what those lucky people on Railton Road have got please!
I have lived here 30 years I walk, tube and use the car about twice a week next year with ULEZ that will go. I think their must be flexibility, the current roll out of LTN’s without addressing issues on RMR’s isn’t fair. I don’t have answers it’s not my job I’m hearing things here and there. But after this experience certainly will be learning more I I realise to only take the stance of No, no, no!’ is useless. So ppl opposing the LTN in its current form are not all metal heads we are just saying that businesses are struggling, what other measures are there to mitigate their difficulties because there is real distress which will fester. Why let that happen? I’ve got work to do so probably won’t post much more! L
That’s the theory again but unfortunately the hard evidence isn’t there. I’m not persuaded by the ‘disappearing traffic’ argument at all. This is really what everything hangs on!
Where is your hard evidence that it doesn't exist?
