Sydenham Town Forum

TFL's own analysis shows that there are many, many KSIs every year in London where the person walking across the road is not at fault. So not only is the statement pretty appalling victim blaming, it is also just fundamentally incorrect.

As far as Council Tax is concerned, you have been paying the same and getting less, because Central Government has consistently cut local government funding. So, if you want more, either the Government gives the council more or the council puts up council tax. At least Council Tax has a vague link t...

Good - Long overdue

Lawrie Park Rd shouldn't even be a thru route. Instead it is allowed to be a magnet for rat runners with no regard to those actually living in the surrounding streets. It wouldn't cost the boroughs any serious money to put a couple of bus sensitive bollards in halfway down. A Heretic writes...

You should look up and contact Tom Kearney @comadad - He may have the info you're looking for. If not he'll certainly have already tried and have been through all the arguments why it hasn't been released (spoiler alert: Abellio will be hiding behind DPA legislation).

Is there some common ground that we can find here? For example, do we agree that London has a problem with road safety? And do we agree that a major component of that problem is excessive speed? There is plenty of evidence to back up both of those positions. So if speed restrictions are not the answ...

A timely study of the 20mph zone introduced in Bristol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-43050841 There is a debate to be had about which streets and roads are appropriate as 20mph zones. And I'm definitely not in favour of a blanket approach. But on any street on which people live and w...

I'd be interested to see your evidence, John H

If you believe stuart should sell his house to solve the housing problems then you also believe that Nigel should head to Raqqa with a rifle to solve the ISIS problem.

I know the concept of Government's actually delivering services is terribly unfashionable these days but this thread

Would you settle for a sub-Utopian start in 2018 of, say, making Sydenham Road traffic free on Summer Sundays between 10 & 6pm? Or to be more neighbourly, alternate with Penge? Tables, food and drink spilling across the road? Sounds good to me. Give people a taste of what could be and maybe the...

Excellent. We all throw our rubbish over the fence into our neighbour's garden. To be honest Robin, I'm not being entirely serious about the impacts on FH. Obviously that would be very difficult and community objections would probably be enough to scupper any serious scheme in the real world. But i...

Forest Hill is where the traffic is. Sorry, I should re-word that. Forest Hill is where Sydenham's through traffic should be. Have you ever tried driving along London Road or Dartmouth Road during the rush hour? Yes, it's awful. There are too many people making short journeys by car. That's why thr...

Only the terminally lazy lose out. What's not to like? What's not to like is it remains a through road. Forest Hill is on the South Circular, that's where the traffic should be. Anything else is fiddling at the edges. There are only negative externalities for Sydenham from the through traffic, only...

My fundamental wish would be that Sydenham Road wasn't a TFL through route. Been saying this for years. No through road except buses, access and cycles from the Greyhound roundabout to Dartmouth Rd. And no on street parking on the High St except disabled and time limited loading. Orford Rd in Walth...

Yes, well said Stuart

There is inevitably going to be disruption when works are ongoing - But these changes are clearly for the better so people should try to be more patient.

A Russian or Chinese one.

£400K for a 1 bed flat in a middling town in Zone 3 borders

World's gone mad

It's also unbelievably naff. Café Nero's "offer" is like a coffee shop from the late 90s. Why would you want to welcome such mediocrity to the town?

I'm happy to go out on a limb and predict that the driver was at fault and further predict that he/she will not be charged and/or prosecuted. If I'm wrong I'll come back on here and apologise. How about "Man killed after car driven into him"? That at least brings the human involvement into...

Stop giving inanimate objects agency. It might help to de-normalise road violence. Language is important.