Thought i'd write on here as I know the Forest Hill Society seems to do a lot when it comes to writing to the council regarding planning permissions, so I thought maybe they might be able to do something with regards to congestion every evening which could possibly be alleviated by some simple parking restrictions applied.

Almost every evening there is a huge traffic build up down Honor Oak Park in the direction of the cross roads with Stondon Park/Brockley Rise. It is my estimate that about 70% of traffic approaching the traffic lights at this crossroads want to turn left onto Stondon Park, and the lights work in favour of these cars by having a left green filter light come on and staying on for quite a while until the full green light comes on for all trafic exiting Honor Oak Park. When the full green light comes on, sometimes it is on for a matter of seconds and then turns back to red stopping all traffic.

I have noticed that as the traffic builds up behind the red light for cars wanting to turn right or to go straight ahead (the middle lane in the road) there are only a limited amount of cars that can access the left hand lane of those wanting to turn left until they are blocked by doing so by parked cars where the double yellow lines stop on the left hand side of the road and the traffic wanting to go right or straight on. The green left hand filter light comes on, the cars that are able to flow through but those that may want to turn left, and can see the green left hand light and can also see empty road ahead are left frustrated by the parked cars blocking their entrance to the empty left hand lane.

Does that make sense? Do you follow?

Now what I reckon is that if the double yellow lines are painted all the way up to the zebra crossing (or at least extended by a further 30-40 meters) it will stop this blockage and help the main parade flow a lot better in the evenings

I appreciate there are houses which use those parking spaces but it would be a hell of a lot better for congestion purposes and would help many a frustrated driver sat in their cars.

What do you reckon?