Opinions

Thank you for giving so much coverage and feedback to LTNs. Since June 29, 2020, with just a few days notice, roads were closed in the chosen area, Lee Green ward, Lewisham.

I wrote to the six Lambeth councillors on July 13, 2020 (three from each of the two wards), asking for a barrier to stop children and adults running out of Brockwell Park and into Norwood Road, Pictured.

I thought that the Government’s handling of Covid-19 could not get any worse, but the only thing ‘world beating’ is their arrogance and dismissal of the need to fix the track and trace system which currently is not able to track or trace.

In September, we joined 22 of the UK’s major retailers and associations in publishing an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for more effective legal protection for our colleagues from an ever-rising tide of abuse, threats and violence.

Above is an interesting photo, showing recent additions (benches) to planters placed at the Brixton end of Railton Road, within a few metres of gridlocked traffic in Coldharbour Lane. Not exactly a good location.
Brian Willey by email

If the slow tsunami of redundancies wasn’t daunting enough, this month’s unemployment figures were another ominous reminder of the UK jobs crisis.

Open Letter to the Mayor of Lewisham – Dear Mayor Egan Why would you allow such foolish, damaging and potentially dangerous traffic schemes to be implemented in our borough? I have seen so many ambulances stuck in traffic, patients’ lives literally at stake, delayed getting to hospital or getting paramedic treatment on time.

I would love to be reunited with an old friend of mine who worked with me at New Cross on the Permanent Way Railway in 1970s. His name was Stephen Butler, his address in 1977 was 13 Kennington Park Place. At the time I lived in Deptford.

Hi councillors and council officers

See below a comment on Peckham Vision’s Facebook page. It is fully backed up by my own observations.

It is not surprising that we are now faced with more draconian measures to stop the Covid-19 transmission.

I have lived in Peckham for 12 years and I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the proposed developments of the Aylesham Centre by Tiger Developments.

I took part in the online consultation in August 2020 and found it incredibly lacking and one-sided.