1. Promoting Walking in Bermondsey
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2. Town Centres & main roads
Encouraging trips on foot to local shops
Pleasant places to walk and to spend time

3. Road casualties in the Bermondsey CC area.
All Collisions- Each dot is a collision involving injury
Data Source – Southwark Road Safety Plan 2009: Data for the previous 3 years.
Key are:
TfL run Red Routes.
Long Lane, Grange Rd and Southwark Park Rd.

4. High casualties are a result of the major roads that pass through the places where people live, work and shop.
Multiple wide lanes allow fast flowing traffic.
Guard railing - produces the canyon effect allowing drivers to feel that it is safe to drive faster.
Jamaica Rd
Old Kent Rd

5. Crossing provision for pedestrians is very poor with inconvenient facilities that encourage risk taking.
St James’s Rd junction with Jamaica Rd
Inconvenient crossing for pedestrians –encourages risky crossing
No surface level crossings – no green man

6. Poor crossing provision throughout the length of Jamaica Rd – deters people from visiting local amenities on foot.
Jamaica Rd

7. On the main roads around our town/shopping centres we need:
Lower speeds – people survive collisions at 20mph or they simply do not happen
Safe convenient crossings.

8. Changes can be made and they really make a difference – Walworth Rd.
Before
After
Casualties fallen by 43%*
*Data Source –

9. Other issues to tackle - town centres need to be pleasant places to walk and spend time.
The Old Kent Road
Narrow pavements
Poor quality paving
Cluttered pavements

10. Contrast OKR with measures taken to improve area round The Blue and reduce casualties on Southwark Park Rd.

11. BUT…

12. People need to be and feel safe as they walk around – good lighting active frontages & living public spaces.

13.
Lower speeds - Tell TfL we need 20mph in our town centres
Safe convenient crossings
Wider pavements where people can shop and spend time
Remove guardrail
Decent lighting
Build to a human scale
Active and vibrant frontages.