Have your say on proposals for area where eight cyclists have been killed in recent years cycling
Camden Council has opened an “urgent” consultation on changes to the Holborn Gyratory, where eight cyclists have lost their lives in crashes involving lorries and coaches since 2008, the most recent being lawyer Shatha Ali, aged 39, who was killed there in March this year.
The video below, released by the council to coincide with the launch of the consultation, highlights some of the interventions already made in the area in recent years, such as banning the left turn for motor vehicles from Vernon Place onto Southampton Row, as well as outlining the new measures now being proposed.
In March 2019, Transport for London announced that Camden had successfully bid for funding of up to £9.48 million to make improvements for cyclists and pedestrians in the Holborn area, with match funding taking the total planned investment in the scheme to £12.6 million. The crisis caused TfL’s income from tube and bus fares to plummet and saw it having to rely on short-term government handouts, typically agreed following acrimonious negotiations and announced at the last minute.
Referring to Ms Ali’s death, he said that TfL was “working hard with Camden Council to try and restart the wider project to make all parts of the gyratory safer, but the ongoing short term funding deals from the Government make planning and delivering complex schemes such as this extremely difficult.”
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