CAMDEN CAMPAIGNERS Calling For Temporary Wider Pavements To Accommodate Pedestrians And Cyclists During Coronavirus Lockdown To Be Made Permanent. (There’s a surprise)

Pavements in Camden High Street and the Kilburn High Road have been extended with Transport for London (TfL) installing barriers which are fencing off parts of the street which are normally traffic lanes.

Agnes Peyser, from the Life in Kilburn community group, said: “With the lockdown, people should be a bit more ambitious. 

Is she advising people break the lockdown rules en masse and all charge down to the High Road???

Traffic is given priority over pedestrians and it is time that should change.” She says. 

She has urged TfL and local authorities to do more, adding: “Any improvement is welcome and we are getting there except they are not doing it along the whole road – it is not going to work. 

The measures cover Willesden Lane and West End Lane but ignores the top and the bottom of Kilburn High Road which leaves challenges.”

People are still required to keep a two-metre gap from others, even if lockdown measures are eased.

Taxi Leaks: In Our Opinion!

The solution is very simple.

All the council needs to do is make the pavement, one way. 

Let’s say going north up Kilburn High Road... northbound on the right, and southbound on the left. 

That way TfL and local councils Brent and Camden don’t have to spend money with a third party, hiring in temporary fencing and traffic cones..... 

Wonder if any of these campaigners have any financial links with the company who rents out traffic logistics???

(Just as the councillors behind the pedal me bike schemes in Camden were alleged to be). 

On Twitter yesterday...

Green Party activist and GLA Member Caroline Russel said:

Following the confusing message from the PM last night, it is urgent that the ULEZ and C Charge are now reinstated to prevent pollution and gridlock.

If even a fraction of the people who normally travel by tube were to get in their cars we would have gridlock preventing emergency services getting round and during a respiratory pandemic its not a great idea to increase air pollution either.

Leader of the GLA Susan Hall came back with:

Caroline now is not the time for people to  start on motorists. 

Londoners will want to get to work as safely as possible and if that means by car so be it. 

Not everyone can ride a bike and many disabled can neither walk or ride a bike. 

This is not one size fits all and I am concerned that narrowing roads will cause even more difficulties for motorists. 

Let’s just remind ourselves what Camden’s improved cycle lane system has actually done to traffic in the Midland Road and Fitzrovia area.....

TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :

Ms Peyser said that the inside lane should be fenced off for use by pedestrians and cyclist!!!!

So in her opinion, it’s ok for sweaty Lycra clad midlife crisis snowflakes to cycle passed pedestrians and brake social distancing rules. 

A better solution for cyclists surely would be to use alternative quiet streets???

If the one way system were to be introduced, apart from the financial savings it would bring, cyclists should stick to using the road, or they could actually dismount and use the pavement walking two meters behind the pedestrians.

So, who wrote the article for the Camden Journal ????

Surely not 👀!!!!