Fwd: Richmond Road update
Roz Mortimer
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From: "Richmond Road Enquiries (Shared Mailbox)" <richmondroa...@hackney.gov.uk>
Date: 21 August 2020 at 18:29:18 CEST
To: "Richmond Road Enquiries (Shared Mailbox)" <richmondroa...@hackney.gov.uk>
Subject: Richmond Road update
Dear All,
We are writing to provide you with an update regarding Richmond Road, following workshops in 2018 and 2019 where residents discussed issues and ideas for improving the area for walking and cycling, and reducing traffic on the road.
The first workshop report can be downloaded here and the second workshop report here.
As you are aware, we had committed to holding a third workshop to present our final ideas, which had been informed by the contributions of participants at the previous two workshops and modelling we had done for potential schemes in the area. The intention of the third workshop was to hear your feedback on our ideas, before a concept design was drawn up by Streetscene officers for public consultation. This workshop was unfortunately cancelled on 16th March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Given the urgent need to support people to walk and cycle, maintain social distancing and protect them from increased traffic as lockdown eases, we are implementing these ideas temporarily using an experimental traffic order, and provide local residents and businesses with an opportunity to have their say while the measures are in place.
The measures will be in place for a maximum of 18 months, and the Council will take the views of local residents and businesses into account before deciding whether or not to make them permanent. This process is in line with specific guidance from Transport for London, and the Department for Transport, whose guidance states that: 'authorities should monitor and evaluate any temporary measures they install, with a view to making them permanent, and embedding a long-term shift to active travel as we move from restart to recovery’.
At the workshops, residents told us that they were concerned about fast vehicle speeds, rat-running from non-local traffic, pollution on Richmond Road, and unsafe conditions for walking and cycling. At the second workshop, most residents expressed support for strategic closures to limit rat-running traffic including a bus gate on Richmond Road.
These measures have been informed by this feedback. They will help to reduce through-traffic in the area, help people to maintain social distancing, and improve conditions for walking and cycling as people use public transport less.
The measures include two bus gates on Richmond Road, where only buses and cyclists could pass through, and a type of road closure, known as a traffic filter on Wilton Way, where traffic is banned from passing through the filter, but allowing residents to access their homes from either side of the filter. These measures will be implemented at the following locations:
A bus gate on Richmond Road at its junction with Eleanor Road, where only buses and cyclists could pass though
A bus gate on Richmond Road at its junction with Greenwood Road, where only buses and cyclists could pass though
A traffic filter on Wilton Way at its junction with Greenwood Road
These measures will be introduced using planters and will be enforced by cameras. The measures will allow exemptions for cyclists, local buses, emergency vehicles and selected service vehicles.
To support these measures, a banned ‘right turn’ from Greenwood Road into Graham Road will also be introduced.
The existing banned left turn from Mare Street into Richmond Road will remain in the first instance. However, it will be removed once the traffic flow in the area has reduced to an acceptable level as a result of the new measures.
The measures are are also designed to complement additional experimental filters at Pritchards Road (near the Cat and Mutton bridge), and Forest Road, Richmond Road, Middleton Road/Haggerston Road, Dunston Street and Lee Street to the east of the A10 in Haggerston, which were approved by the Council’s Cabinet in June. More information can be found at: news.hackney.gov.uk/rebuilding-greener-london-fields.
Implementation will start from 7 September, and will take about two weeks to implement. You can have your say at rebuildingagreenerhackney.commonplace.is for up until six months after measures have been implemented - with letters sent to all residents in the local area prior to implementation, outlining how they can have their say.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Cunningham
Head of Streetscene
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Felix Mottram
> On 21 Aug 2020, at 18:31, Roz Mortimer <R...@wonder-dog.co.uk> wrote:
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> For info...
> New traffic measures including bus gate at junction of Richmond Rd and Eleanor Rd...
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>> From: "Richmond Road Enquiries (Shared Mailbox)" <richmondroa...@hackney.gov.uk>
>> Date: 21 August 2020 at 18:29:18 CEST
>> To: "Richmond Road Enquiries (Shared Mailbox)" <richmondroa...@hackney.gov.uk>
>> Subject: Richmond Road update
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>> Dear All,
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Felix Mottram
> On 21 Aug 2020, at 18:44, Roz Mortimer <R...@wonder-dog.co.uk> wrote:
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> I’m not sure whether it will mean traffic will divert down Horton/Eleanor? Might be more traffic for us?
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Felix Mottram
On 21 Aug 2020, at 18:44, Roz Mortimer <R...@wonder-dog.co.uk> wrote:
I’m not sure whether it will mean traffic will divert down Horton/Eleanor? Might be more traffic for us?On 21 Aug 2020, at 19:34, Felix Mottram <fe...@felixmottram.com> wrote:
Interesting result to the consultation with residents. We’ll almost be a gated community!