tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771394491125181985.post1154967935033517419..comments2023-08-16T10:37:05.489+01:00Comments on SE11 Action Team: VNEB Community ForumSE11 Labourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00893882003784286791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771394491125181985.post-21191094998266731722011-05-19T20:42:21.230+01:002011-05-19T20:42:21.230+01:00An excellent post has been made (not by me) on Vau...An excellent post has been made (not by me) on Vauxhall Cross at http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/83626-vauxhall-cross/page__pid__1669430#entry1669430<br />- I copy part below:<br /><br />"Vauxhall Cross has always been a bit of a mess, and it's got worse in recent years.<br /><br />A rational, if eccentric layout was changed to a preposterous gyratory system at the same time as Shoreditch went from gyratory to 'high street'. Some bright spark came up with the idea of a bus station which involves buses doing up to three 180 degree turns to make their way across the junction, and, having placed this in the centre of the new gyratory/racetrack, they then completed the modal segregation by putting (unused) cycle lanes around the gyratory. Grimshaw probably thought that Christmas had come early. <br /><br />This has left us with the kind of place that is perfect for S+M fetish clubs (seriously) but lacks any kind of conviviality. It is a traffic scheme, and only a traffic scheme; if you wanted to make the case that traffic 'engineers' are the very last people one would want to design a junction, then this is the bunny.<br /><br />Ten years on, and TfL have revisited it. They commissioned a report from Burns and Nice who came up with about seven alternatives - link here, http://urbandesign.tfl.gov.uk/Content/VNEB-PR-HM-Study-Final-Report__Final-V4.aspx but please bear in mind that this is a 78Mb pdf. The first four options were for two way streets. Ah-ha! I hear you say! Wonderful stuff! Making a street do what streets are supposed to do. Sadly, Burns and Nice neglected the obvious and didn't consider selling off the bus station for development, which would, by my not entirely inexpert calculations, have paid for any of the seven options. <br /><br />Be that as it may - TfL ignored three of the four options that involved two-way streets and are, apparently about to plump for one of the three options that keep the gyratory (and the bus station) in place. http://urbandesign.tfl.gov.uk/Content/Copy-of-LBL-Members-presentation---Gyratory. aspx Not good news."Charlie Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02907483153757193008noreply@blogger.com