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According to Transport for London the roadworks are listed to end on Sunday. 🤞
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News update - Police are investigating stabbing of a 15-year-old boy. thekingstonecho.substack.com/p/news-updat...
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It's now all open again - just some Thames Water work taking place on a side road. (In other travel news, the right-hand turn from the A3 to Kingston Hill is closed)
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That makes sense, thanks. Now wondering why they didn't have them before.
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Agreed, though half term was probably difficult to avoid - it lasted about three weeks because different schools did different dates, so there wasn't one 'official' half term week.
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The hope in the next trial phase is that blocking the righthand turn down Crescent Road (but with resident exemptions) will cut 'rat-run' traffic, unless they all then turn off Kingston Hill along Queens Road and down New Road. The meeting to discuss the trial and next steps is on 10 December.
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Looks like the traffic survey data during the trial was collected during the quieter half term period (the previous data showing a much bigger rise in traffic on New Road etc was disregarded by highways staff because it was said to be distorted by roadworks)
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The highways figures suggest there's been a sharp drop in average speed on Kings Road from 18mph to 13mph, which would be good, though counter-intuitive if the problem was jams beforehand, and if it's now a smooth operating one-way road?
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This trial was always likely to be controversial, but not helped by council highways errors - speed humps installed on Kings Road were illegally high for the first six months + and failure to warn New Road residents their narrow road was about to become a part of a one way system
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Final thought - there are loads of brilliant primary/secondary schools in and around the borough. Pretty much all rated as good/outstanding by Ofsted. Falling school rolls are having a bigger impact in lots of other areas. And history suggests that what goes down, will come back up again.
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According to the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education the proposed 920 place school is scheduled to open in September 2027, subject to planning permission.
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The planning application for that secondary school was submitted just over a year ago. It is listed as 'pending consideration' - there've been tweaks to the application following concerns about an 'exceptional population' of slow worms, plus others from Sports England and Transport for London.