COVID-19 transport response update: 14 September 2020

Traffic counters and air quality monitoring

Last week we published our monitoring strategy for the Lewisham and Lee Green low traffic neighbourhood to provide you with further details around what we’re monitoring, where we’re monitoring and what our next steps will be after reviewing and publishing the data. Review the monitoring strategy here. It is not possible to monitor every street across the borough due to the cost of doing so, but the locations have been carefully selected to provide an indication of the impact on air quality across the area and on different types of street, for instance streets where a filter has been placed, other residential streets, as well as more strategic roads like the south circular.

As other schemes come forward they will be subject to similar monitoring and we will add further locations in the future as further schemes are brought forward, to determine a more comprehensive picture of air quality and traffic in the borough.

Update on TfL improvement works

TfL are due to implement a number of temporary measures along a 2km stretch on the A21 to improve public transport, cycling and walking routes. Over the past several weeks we have been discussing the final details with them to ensure any potential impacts on our residents and our network are mitigated. Once temporary measures have been introduced, TfL has agreed to monitor the impact of these changes over the coming months and they will respond to any further concerns.

On Wednesday 16 September TfL temporary works are due to begin on Molesworth Street.

You can find further details of the TfL improvement schemes on their website for A21 Lewisham – Catford.

Residents should send comments and feedback to streetspacelondon@tfl.gov.uk

Adult cycling confidence-building lessons to restart

We’re delighted to be able to offer one-to-one lessons to adults again to help build their confidence in cycling. We now offer free two-hour, bespoke sessions in cycling and route planning, which could particularly help people who have begun cycling during lockdown.

We’re able to restart the lessons following a new injection of funding for the scheme from Transport for London. You can find more information about our cycling lessons on our website.

School Streets

We currently have six schools streets in the borough and we’re looking to add several more over the coming weeks. So far schools include: Adamsrill, Deptford Green, Kelvin Grove, Prendergast Ladywell, Sir Francis Drake and Ashmead. Read more about our School Street programme on our website.

Responding to your feedback

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to provide us with feedback on the introduction of temporary measures. We are listening to your feedback and are doing our best to answer your questions.

We recognise that some of the measures we have introduced have raised issues which need to be addressed. We are listening to feedback and we know that there are some roads where traffic has increased. We will be making changes to try and reduce this and we will share more information about these changes in the coming weeks.

We’re also in the process of updating our FAQs on the Commonplace website to provide you with a more complete set of answers.

If would like to provide us with further feedback in the meantime please contribute to the Commonplace map.