"blinkered Thatcherite vision..."
Not me. I want to see investment in roads including better cycling facilities (cycle super highways fail to go beyond the Elephant in the room), I want to see better pedestrian crossings, I want to see reduced pollution from traffic jams in our town centres, and I want to see safer roads for all users. That is what a good proportion of the schemes are about.

I would also like to see improvements to the existing bottlenecks in South London like Catford, the bridge at Southend Lane, Crystal Palace, Greenwich town centre, Rotherhithe tunnel.

"is the transport here already better?"
Well let's judge by the accident rates in 2013 (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy...s10014.xls)

Lewisham has the 9th worst accident rate of the 33 London Boroughs. 14% of reported accidents take place in South East London (Southwark and eastwards).

TfL's response is for 1 out of 49 of the schemes (2%) to be in South East London. And I probably wouldn't be complaining if there was evidence of greater investment in buses, trains, tubes, bike hire, or other schemes. We are left behind in all of these time and time again.