Thursday 17 May 2018

White Hart Lane level crossing

Afterthought:
there is a call for names to stick on the bridge, or to call it if anyone ever wants to call to a bridge.
Vegetable Bridge would be a good name, because it is in a vegetable patch. Commuters see the veg patch out of their train window. School pupils see it on the walk to school.



So many people meet each other at the White Hart Lane level crossing, that I feel I am interfering in what some lobbied-for, which is a no-left-turn with traffic cameras, but people from other postcodes use the roads too, and that's why the idea of consulting little groups of "local people" is not a good idea. People from other postcodes matter too.

People should turn left over the white heart lane level crossing from Worple Way

The other flawed idea is that cars should not turn left over the crossing. You do not have to visit to guess that railways have relatively few road crossings, and so a chance to use on it a useful thing. It's useful to the motorist and to people who use other crossings, otherwise more congested.
If you do go to the area you will see some old NHS buildings, being re-built. It isn't obvious, but there is still an NHS clinic on the site with 700 outpatients, mainly older people with brain impairments and younger people with learning difficulties. There are only two out of the hoped-for three psychiatrists there at the moment, with none of the activities they would like to encourage on site, and I am not quite sure what the office staff there do, but the point is that a lot of people with bad concentration bob in and out of the place by car, some of them diagnosed with dementia, and the last thing they need is a traffic fine. My mum, in that position, got two.
There are builders bobbing in and out nowadays as well, and the more they are chanelled onto one particular route, the more congestion they cause.

What I understand of the other agument

I understand that primary school children for the school over the tracks, prams, patients, mums, and anyone waiting for the crossing gates to open can in theory be squashed if a long vehicle turns left and cuts the corner where they are standing.
I understand that a bollard or a post with some tyres round it would prevent the problem, as would a bigger cut out of Railtrack's land that I hope they would grant for the safety of people waiting. All it takes is the moving of a fence.
I think that is the end of the other agument, but unfortunatly I can't meet the councillor consulting at 4.30 today - I am not in the area - so have posted this. I am happy to meet any of the people who lobby the other way so that the councillor can watch us disagree politely, rather than being caught in the middle. Or maybe there could be a boxing match to settle the issue.

J Robertson
2 Avenue Gds, London SW14 8BP - about 200 or 300 meters from the gates on foot and slightly further by car, son of a patient of the hospital 50 meters away from the gates.



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