The Royal Parks Movement Strategy (consultation open)

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spinnnout

Started with this..

The Royal Parks is embarking on an exciting and ambitious journey to
develop a Movement Strategy that will influence movement and
transportation throughout our parks and London

Our park roads are not intended to be commuter through-routes for
motor vehicles

..and ended with re-opening a rat run.

Perhaps the trial could fail in such a way that they would have to extend the trial to test closing the rat run but I bet they'd rather declare the closed sections a failure and just go back to status quo.

I'd be interested to see all of these in map form if anyone comes across any.
Edit: here is Richmond Park..
https://twitter.com/RichmondCycling/status/1293107659940466688

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Scrabble in reply to @spinnnout

Hmmm, it seems odd to open a rat run that has a perfectly good road as an alternative (Richmond Road from Ktown to Richmond).

I've got conflicts of interest everywhere as I live just off the Richmond Road. The benefit to me, is that road may be slightly quieter if people can go through the park instead. Crossing it with kids is rarely relaxing and maybe thats been worse post lock-down due to RP remaining closed plus no one getting the bus.

Also, why is Ham gate open to cars? Almost no cars use it anyway, and acessing the park from there has no real benefit. Would be sensible to close it so people can freely enjoy whizzing down that hill, although having the gates open at the bottom will be nice.

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