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TfL have announced that they plan to introduce three pedestrian crossings at the junction where ^^^ a pedestrian was killed recently. It seems that they don't plan to introduce a crossing on the Chelsea Embankment arm of the junction, and as usual they plan to ban at least one turn at the junction to 'enable' this (my guess is that there will eventually two banned turns, but I hope I'm wrong). Banned turns are always a bad idea and are only implemented by designers because of motor traffic capacity concerns.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/battersea-bridge-safety-changes-jack-ryan-death-tfl-b920550.html
I'm sure the death reminded TfL of this junction, and it's really quite amazing that it's still in the state it has been in for decades. As said in the article, it should have been modernised a long time ago. While the proposed scheme sounds like an improvement, based on these few details, they should definitely install crossings on all four arms.