I have re-read this thread and there are many issues and potential solutions. Where traffic management is concerned, there seems to be a lack of ambition and imagination to make changes that could benefit lives and lead to a flourishing town centre.

Lack of money/resources is usually given as the reason for not being able to make significant changes to infrastructure. Earlier in the thread it was pointed out that Forest Hill Pool is very near the (usually empty) Perry Vale car park, but that a bridge would be required to make usage of the car park attractive and feasible. I wonder has anyone at the council or the GLA/TFL investigated and costed this?

Similarly, I think the design of roads bearing heavy traffic needs a total re-think. Why are there so few road tunnels? The Rotherhithe tunnel was completed in 1908, the Blackwall tunnel was built in 1897 (widened in 1967), the Kingsway Tram Underpass was completed in 1906. The Limehouse Link Tunnel completed in 1993 seems to be one of the few major London road tunnel projects undertaken within living memory.

Clearly we have not become less capable engineers over the past 100 years, because we have built the Channel Tunnel, and Crossrail is a major project. The expertise is there but where is the political ambition to make serious significant changes to the infrastructure that would benefit so many lives? Is it because those with power live in roads with No Through Traffic - the traffic having been quietly re-directed to someone else's road?

This post was last modified: 06-04-2016 08:17 AM by Devonish Forester.