The best way to make Dartmouth Road pleasant for pedestrians would be to make sure traffic flows through efficiently. Having a lovely public space beside a honking, rumbling, particulate-emitting traffic jam will not make people want to use the space. Widening the footpaths and narrowing the carriageway will make the environment less pleasant, not more.

Lewisham claim there is no problem with illegal parking. Every one here knows there is. If Lewisham don't think there is a problem, they are not going to be doing effective enforcement within the new scheme. Saying the carriageway is wide enough for two buses to pass and therefore wide enough for this stretch of road seems simplistic to me. I sincerely hope to be proved wrong, but I think this may make things worse.

The first of the objective above should be to INCREASE traffic speeds to a potential 20 mph. Speeding traffic is not a problem. Standing traffic is.