Lewisham Council has been criticised by local Green Safer Streets spokesperson Clare Phipps for their lax attitude in addressing residents’ safety concerns over a road that has seen four major car accidents since March.
Local Green Clare Phipps calls for Lewisham Council to make good on the pledge the Labour Mayor was elected on, to give the borough a 20mph limit.
Residents in Stondon Park and Brockley Rise have started an online petition calling on Lewisham Council to make their roads safer.
Since March 2014 alone there have been four major car accidents on the Stondon Park Road in SE23, with an 18 year old cyclist taken to hospital with leg injuries as recently as June.
Campaigners have been told by the council that the engineers will not be considering any alterations to the route until the autumn, after which they will decide on how best to proceed.
Clare Phipps, Lewisham Green Party’s Safer Streets spokesperson, said,
“Residents of Stondon Park and Lewisham as a whole deserve to be able to walk to the shops, cycle to work and take their children to school without fearing their journey will end in hospital or worse.
“It’s great to see residents uniting on this issue. But it is very concerning to see the council’s laissez faire response, making poor excuses to avoid dealing with the issue with the urgency it requires. The Labour Mayor was elected on a pledge to give all borough roads a 20mph limit – now it’s time for him to ensure that they are enforced.”
You can sign the petition here: http://is.gd/ssppetition