Can anyone tell me why the traffic calming measures are being put in place. I used to live on Kilmorie Road. I was planning on moving out of London before the traffic calming measures within the area bounded by Stanstead Road, Perry Vale, Woolston Road and Catford Hill were muted so it wasn't a major effect on me. I know that the council were getting money from Europe to action the changes, but having lived on the road for 20 years, I had not heard of any accidents on the enclosed streets other than Sunderland Road, Chuch Rise and Westbourne Road (which had already been humped).

Surely that area would heve been better served by rerouting the roads to stop them being used as rat runs. If people do not get an advantage from leaving the main roads on their commutes would reduce the traffic on the more residential roads. Forcing people to park on their yards rather than the street would meen that pedestrians seeing moving cars and drivers seeing pedestrians would be improved considerably. Just taking parked cars off the roads would make them safer.

The introduction of humps and crossing safety bollard areas on Woolstone Road and the introduction of the islands on Perry Vale seemed to increase accidents rather than reduce them.

Does anyone know how the measures have affected Lewishams average speed through the borough? I vaguely recall around the late 90's they were aiming for an average speed of 9mph according to the Mercury.