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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Ivy Road floods

Feb

2016

The Ivy Road lake in SE4 - natural or man-made? @BrockleyCentral @thameswater pic.twitter.com/rDNGix8dxc— Philip Ratcliff (@Philip_Ratcliff) February 17, 2016

Digger little deeper

Feb

2016

Yet another vehicle snared by the Mantle Road fool trap.@BrockleyCentral Not looking good for trains or cars: someone misjudged the height of the digger/bridge on Mantle Rd pic.twitter.com/eIqZVWNO5b— Mike Hills (@mikewhills) February 13, 2016

Lewisham Way crossings live to fight another day

Feb

2016

Don't cross the people of Brockley. TfL have responded to the public consultation about the fate of traffic crossings on the A20 - the Algernon Road crossing at the foot of Loampit Hill will go but those on Lewisham Way will stay. They say:Last year we held a consultation on a number of changes to ...

TfL proposes changes to the A20 (Lewisham Way)

Oct

2015

Proposed changes to Lewisham WayTfL has launched a consultation about proposed changes to Lewisham Way, Loampit Hill and Loampit Vale. The proposals include a number of improvements, but also the world's most gratuitous "traffic smoothing" project. The key changes involve:Merging some of the existing pedestrian crossings along the A20 so crossings are more evenly spaced ...

Deathtrap Junction

Aug

2015

BC regular John is worried about the temporary road layout in the centre of Lewisham, fearing that the arrangements made to enable the Lewisham Gateway works have created a dangerous situation in which pedestrians find themselves marooned in the road. He writes:As I passed through on Saturday I saw three separate buggies finding themselves next ...

Crossy Road

Aug

2015

A copy of the stakeholder consultation document. Thanks to We Are SE3.TfL trying again to remove pedestrian crossings from Lewisham Way. Having withdrawn a bid to remove one crossing in 2011, it's now launched a consultation on the removal of two on the route between New Cross and Lewisham, to speed up car journey times. We ...

Lewisham Roundabout gone for good

Jan

2015

Lewisham Roundabout - an efficient way to process traffic and separate Lewisham shopping centre from its main transport interchange is gone foreverThis weekend, a new road layout came into effect in central Lewisham, replacing the main roundabout with something more complicated:The new system will allow work on the Gateway project to continue and will remain ...

TfL launches Ultra Low Emissions Zone consultation

Jan

2015

TfL has launched a public consultation on its plans to create an Ultra Low Emission Zone in central London. Air pollution is a major killer in London and the capital has regularly failed to meet European air quality standards, so drastic action is required. A ULEZ would be similar similar to the Congestion Charge zone, requiring ...

Lewisham floods as Ravensbourne bursts its banks

Nov

2014

Heavy rain has caused flooding at Lewisham roundabout today. Lewisham's river system is being jiggered about as part of the Gateway development and the waters of the Ravensbourne have burst their banks, causing chaos on the roads.Thanks to Fred, who reckons this hasn't happened since 1968, for the video from Loampit Vale.

Of River Crossings and eco-magic in Oxleas Wood

Nov

2014

New roads crossing the river Thames, by bridge or tunnel, are back on the agenda nearly twenty years after the Government's major road building programme of the 1990s fizzled out amidst sustained opposition to its environmental impact. In South East London, the most advanced plan is for the Silvertown tunnel from the Greenwich peninsula to ...