| Topic: | Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | John Kettlekey | |
| Date/Time: | 02/09/20 00:39:00 |
| "So, residents of Dover House Road and surrounding roads will not be able to enter or exit DHR on either end ever?" No, that's not what it is at all. I don't know where you get "either end" from at all. Maybe you can explain what you think is happening and we'll see if that fits with reality. Give an example of a current journey that you don't think will be possible after the changes. There's no consequences for disabled or elderly residents apart from spending an extra minute or two navigating the necessary diversion. You can't turn into DHR from Parkstead Road or vice versa. That's it (for DHR at least). If you live at the end of Huntingfield Road (or Putney Park Lane) just North of the junction with Parkstead Road you'll need to go North and round to come down Pleasance Road, once you've used to that to get to Parkstead Road then you can continue South on any of the roads (including Dover House Road). If you want to go from URR to Putney Heath you can go:- Dover House Road, The Pleasance, Pleasance Road, Parkstead Road, Dover House Road, Putney Heath. or:- Dover House Road, The Pleasance, Pleasance Road, Sunnymead Road / Dover Park Drive, Putney Heath. You can still get through both ways, just not straight down Dover House Road as you could before. Yes there are signs at each end of DHR to say there's no access to the other end, but that's not entirely true is it? You can't still work around it, as the locals will know. But those who rat-run through the area will be put off by those signs and the "road closed" or "dead end" signs they come across if they try and ignore it. The whole point of this is to make the journey that too many people use as a rat-run less attractive. Locals will get to know how to get around it. Non-locals will find their Sat Nav doesn't help, and will either ignore the signs (and get caught, be fined, which helps keep your council tax down) and/or be strongly discouraged from trying to rat-run through the same area. No-one is being cut off. People are being mildly inconvenienced which is a small price to pay for hopefully a better situation for the residents. I'm sorry I even mentioned Erphingham Road, seems it was too much for people to see the parallels in what the council is attempting to achieve. |