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Hey Eldo, what a tale to tell your grandkids someday, eh?! So glad to hear you're going to be OK!
I'm too new to start a new thread, either, so will use this space to ask you and other readers to please help with a campaign to fix an intersection just down Cavendish Road where another cyclist wasn't so lucky last month.
Following the death of cyclist Johannah Bailey on 31 July, a meeting with TfL officials has been arranged to press for improved safety measures for cyclists in the area of Cycle Route 5 where she died. The meeting is scheduled for 12 September.
TfL officials say their work is “data led” -- essentially, not enough people have died or had life-changing injuries for them to take action. Having secured a meeting with them nonetheless, it is crucial that we present as much evidence as possible to show why changes here are essential. The police also have asked for copies of correspondence into safety issues here, which they will include in their collision investigation report. Police reports can mandate changes to areas deemed unsafe.
We need to collect as much evidence as possible to strengthen our case. Have you – whether as a cyclist, driver or pedestrian -- seen or experienced near misses in this area? Have you had or witnessed an accident which went unreported?
The area under discussion is the South Circular from the junction of Rudloe and Poynders Road SW4 through to the turnoff from Cavendish Road into Klea Avenue. It includes all the entry and exit points to the area: Cavendish, Hazelbourne, Englewood and Abbeville Roads, and Klea Ave as well as the housing estate entrance. (A map of the area, together with witnesses' accounts of the accident, can be found here. The route is an old one, rather than one of the new "super highways". Incredibly, there is a safe - though somewhat inconvenient - route through the junction, but the cycle route signs ignore it
If you have information on road and cyclist safety issues in this area, please email it to TootingCyclist@gmail.com. Be sure to include your full name, postal address and email address or contact phone number in the body of the message both for verification and so that you can be contacted if further details are required. Your contact details will be used only for the purposes of this campaign. You will not hear from us again unless you request follow up information
If you have information to contribute, we hope to hear from you by 10 September. NOTE: Please use the email address above rather than simply replying here; I'm posting this request on too many blogs and websites to be able to monitor them all.
Those meeting with TFL officials on 12 September include Lambeth Councillor Christine Barratt, who has been instrumental in arranging the meeting, another local cyclist and myself and a formal representative from the London Cycling Campaign. I will try to ensure that the blue route crossing Cavendish Road, where Eldo had a lucky escape, is discussed as well.
Please forward this message to anyone else who might be interested and able to contribute relevant information.
If my tinkering here hasn't cleared the HTML code, I'd be very grateful if someone else would do so for me.