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Request reference number: MGLA201020-7803
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Summary of request
You have decided to make road closures in the Southgate area and other surrounding roads making them into T roads only accessible for the select few with remote or key access without local or wider public consultation.And to you Mayor of London you have allowed this to happen Borough wide. I understand the same problem is happening in Hackney. Being a very high rate tax payer over 40% I am extremely disappointed that you have used money without regard to the public or their opinion and made a decision to impose misery upon people. The decision to close these roads not only affects those local to them but the wider public at large that have reason to travel through them.
The other effects are:
- a 5 minute journey now takes 25 minutes which equate to more pollution petrol/electrical used clearly not good
- concentrated levels of pollution in shopping areas where people are walking Southgate and Palmers Green because of the terrible flow of traffic and engines running because it is congested
- making it difficult to breath in those areas
- Southgate roundabout has now become more of a nightmare than what it was
- devalued house prices and increased others
- cars are parked either side of these roads; it does not act as a deterrent for motor vehicles.
- affects journey to work longer car journey by re-routing
Attached is a picture taken a brief snapshot of what your decisions have created.
What a poor service our council is providing to its local people. Whilst i am on this topic of roads. you have also in your good wisdom decided to restrict traffic in bus lanes at all times. There is no logical reason for doing this. Again, you have increased traffic at times when it usually flows through and resolves itself.
What a shambolic service our local council is providing its residents.
Please provide me with the following:
- the minutes of the meetings
- when the decisions affecting the roads were made
- provide the lawful basis upon which the decision was made.
- confirm whether you consulted any of the residents of these roads and if so what percentage responded.
Related documents
MGLA201020-7803 - FOI response