Sunday, November 11, 2007
CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMPROVEMENT OF HERNE HILL
Campaign against the junction seriously flawed and misleading
The atached comments on our article of 5th November .
Good to hear the HHF is independent and no doubt run by honest enthusiasts, which is more than can be said for the so-called "Friends" of Brockwell Park.
I can forgive you for putting across a seemingly one-sided view on the Herne Hill Junction scheme. As witnessed yesterday (Saturday 10th) at the park gates, the so called "Friends" simply misrepresent the appalling lack of road safety at the Herne Hill Junction. They make unfounded and incorrect statements to all the passers-by who are being duped into signing petitions etc.. Not only that, but any attempt to engage in intelligent discussion or email correspondence with FoBP is met with zero response.
I admit the TFL / Lambeth scheme for the Herne Hill Junction is not quite perfect but it seems to me (I have lived in the area for 35 years) to be the best way to get an improvement in safety. Safety is paramount.
FoBP will never win with their alternative plan (inasmuch as it has any clarity or consistency to be called a plan). In the meantime we all have to put up with more months of
* congestion and pollution at the junction
* anger and road rage, car horns at all times of the night
* countless dangerous illegal right hand turns
* very difficult crossing for pedestrians and danger for cyclists
* a horrible toilet block and 'rest area' in the park itself
* the knock on effect on the local traders
All because "Friends" stand in the way of progress in the name of a bit of grass. I hope one day the Friends will turn their energies back to the amenities in the park. Herne Hill is otherwise a great place to live. Brockwell is a very fine park. It deserves better.
I can forgive you for putting across a seemingly one-sided view on the Herne Hill Junction scheme. As witnessed yesterday (Saturday 10th) at the park gates, the so called "Friends" simply misrepresent the appalling lack of road safety at the Herne Hill Junction. They make unfounded and incorrect statements to all the passers-by who are being duped into signing petitions etc.. Not only that, but any attempt to engage in intelligent discussion or email correspondence with FoBP is met with zero response.
I admit the TFL / Lambeth scheme for the Herne Hill Junction is not quite perfect but it seems to me (I have lived in the area for 35 years) to be the best way to get an improvement in safety. Safety is paramount.
FoBP will never win with their alternative plan (inasmuch as it has any clarity or consistency to be called a plan). In the meantime we all have to put up with more months of
* congestion and pollution at the junction
* anger and road rage, car horns at all times of the night
* countless dangerous illegal right hand turns
* very difficult crossing for pedestrians and danger for cyclists
* a horrible toilet block and 'rest area' in the park itself
* the knock on effect on the local traders
All because "Friends" stand in the way of progress in the name of a bit of grass. I hope one day the Friends will turn their energies back to the amenities in the park. Herne Hill is otherwise a great place to live. Brockwell is a very fine park. It deserves better.
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