please empty your brain below
Wish they'd spend some money on the London Loop. It's looking rather delapidated.

dg writes: The section on 'Leisure walking routes' (page 102) is woefully non-specific.

Tom | 20.07.18 - 7:41 a.m. | #

What would help get people out walking is pointing out that there aren't paedos, murders, rapists & terrorists on every street corner.

Since the "War on terror" the government has been doing their upmost to persuade us that our lives are under constant threat. A little bit of perspective would help enormously.

dg writes: According to page 28, "Twenty per cent of Londoners feel worried about personal security while walking", making it the third most popular reason given for not walking.

Jon Jones | 20.07.18 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Inner London has a greater density of shops and railway stations, and also more people, in the suburbs the density is less, how far from the stations at places like Bexleyheath, Harrow, Harold Hill or Kingston would you be willing to walk on a regular basis?, especially if your ticket includes bus travel anyway.

As to primary schools - great if you get into your local one, not so great if you end up on the other side of the borough.

Still Anon | 20.07.18 - 8:42 a.m. | #

With respect to Countdown Crossings, all those that I b=have seen in London have the countdown numbers at high level on the opposite side of the crossing with the red / green man adjacent, also athigh level on the opposite side of the raod, facing the waiting pedestrians.

In Dacorum these lights with these "traditional" posistions are being completely beplaced (new poles, new light clusters and new buttons) with much smaller pedetrsian signs at low level, facing across the crossing; some also now have a similar pedestrian sign at a higher level, also facing across the crossing. (Both sets of signs are visible to approaching motorists.)

Does anyone know why we now have different "standards"?

dg writes: The new type of crossing is called a puffin, not a pelican, and they've been introduced across many parts of the country in recent years [see here for 2015 in Bow]

strawbrick | 20.07.18 - 8:47 a.m. | #

Does anyone experienced the same problem as me: with some of the new 'green/red man' signs its very difficult to see the status unless you're looking very directly at the sign. The status seems to be invisible from the slightest side-on view. The flashing indicators themselves seem to be smaller if I'm not mistaken.

My eye-sight isn't very good as I have problems with peripheral vision - s o I wondered if this is a problem specific to me or a design issue.

new still anon | 20.07.18 - 8:58 a.m. | #

Lovely. Now? How about a Knife and Other Violent Crime Strategy?

David | 20.07.18 - 9:02 a.m. | #

...walking?! wow that is a great idea. how about we reduce the pollution too. plant some more trees. disinfect and sweep the pavements a bit more...some are caked in grime, filth and crap. truth matter is that with a future increase of 1 million in London's population in the next decade, the more people off the roads/transport system and walking the less likely it be for gridlock.

Grumpy Anon | 20.07.18 - 9:24 a.m. | #

Seeing as "I'm lazy" isn't top of the reasons given on p28, we can take it with a pinch of salt.

Steve | 20.07.18 - 10:54 a.m. | #

I guess their information comes from the surveys that I and other people who signed up to my survey panel get sent every month or so. They are really boring and ask the same thing in 5-10 different ways so I don't know how reliable their data actually is.

John | 20.07.18 - 12:53 p.m. | #

School children should walk or bus to school. Not be ferried round by their parents so increasing the traffic and parking chaos.

Tones | 20.07.18 - 2:49 p.m. | #

As a vehicle user one of the worst things here these days are traffic light crossings with a countdown and/or an arbitrary pedestrian phase with a countdown (very often both).

They seemed to make so much sense when they were first introduced, typically with a countdown of about 5 secs. These days, they can be 15 seconds or more, very often with an all-red (Nobody move!) phase before and after.

You watch the waiting pedestrians come and go as soon as the light for them turns green, and then look at the timer to count the seconds ticking down.

It's not just time that's being wasted: if TfL were actually genuine about wanting to improve the quality of London's air, creating a situation where whole queues of traffic are belching out fumes without going anywhere seems a real contradictory way of going about it.

RogerW | 20.07.18 - 4:54 p.m. | #

I can never understand why the TfL countdown timers work the opposite way round to those in most other countries: TfL show you how long you have to complete your crossing, whereas elsewhere they tell you how long you have to wait for the green man to appear.

To me the latter seems far more useful because there's no point in risking life and limb when the green man is only a few seconds away.

It must be very confusing for overseas visitors.

Gerry | 20.07.18 - 5:01 p.m. | #

One of the "green by default" crossings seems to be the one at London Bridge bus station which is treated as green by most people anyway as there's little traffic and a long delay after pressing the button. In practice there will be no real difference, but the Mayor will try to claim credit for making things better for pedestrians.

Andrew S | 20.07.18 - 10:31 p.m. | #

Are TfL's streets department, by any chance, in that building in The International Quarter? That'll speed up their journey from the station!

martin | 22.07.18 - 10:13 a.m. | #











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