You may well be right but tfl were originally planning on taking the bars away without any changes to the junction. I'm not sure that I have that much faith in them doing the right thing.

I just came back across that junction and looked at the tiny strip whilst a huge pantechnicon swung around the corner.

The whole junction needs to be looked at and made far more pedestrian friendly and as someone said above maybe an Oxford Circus style crossing phase.

And maybe I'm being pessimistic but I wonder if they'll put traffic flow on the south circular ahead of improving the street scene of Forest Hill.