Re Healthy Route Rosendale Road SE24 / SE21 (Nee Quietway 7) plans whose consultation finished 29th February 2020. Going south bound on Rosendale Road, on reaching Thurlow Park Road junction Lambeth’s planned to ban left and right turns on to Thurlow Park Road. Please tell me: a)Why did you or and Lambeth considered is necessary to ban the left turn? b)Why did you or and Lambeth considered it necessary to ban the right turn? c)What consideration was made during the planning to keep the current two south bound lanes of traffic (thereby keeping the current right turn lane) by narrowing the traffic lanes just like you did and have implemented on Rosendale Road at the junction with Norwood Road under this same scheme?

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TfL Ref: FOI-1746-2021

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 1 December 2020, asking for information about Rosendale Road and Thurlow Park Road junction.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations and our information access policy.  I can confirm that we hold the information you require. You asked:

a)Why did you or and Lambeth considered is necessary to ban the left turn?

This was necessary to incorporate the operation of the bidirectional cycle track (with no conflicting traffic movements) and maintain a 3 stage method of control to ensure bus journey times were not adversely affected.

b)Why did you or and Lambeth considered it necessary to ban the right turn?

With the addition of the bidirectional track on the east side of the junction, there was no longer space for 2 southbound traffic lanes. Therefore any vehicles turning right would have to sit in the middle of the junction waiting for a gap to turn. Any traffic wishing to go straight ahead would then be blocked. This would have an adverse effect on bus journey times. The only way to get around this would be to add a 4^th stage to the method of control, which as mentioned above would delay buses.

c)What consideration was made during the planning to keep the current two south bound lanes of traffic (thereby keeping the current right turn lane) by narrowing the traffic lanes just like you did and have implemented on Rosendale Road at the junction with Norwood Road under this same scheme?

Provision of a bidirectional cycle track, including separator island containing signal infrastructure, resulted in there being insufficient carriageway width to retain two southbound traffic lanes on Rosendale Road (north arm).

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