Safe walking routes in King's Cross

You may remember that Living Streets carried out an audit into 'walkability' around the station earlier this year. Many members of our community participated, taking time out of busy lives to assist Living Streets to assess local walking routes. This was for a major report commissioned by Transport for London (TfL). Months have passed and no report has emerged, so what has happened to it? Living Streets said today:

"The reports were commissioned by TfL but I understand that they have not yet been passed to Network Rail. The report has been circulated to the King’s Cross Interchange Steering Group for comment. This group includes representatives from across the TfL directorates covering different modes, as well as representatives from Camden Borough Council.

"Peter McBride (head of cycling, walking and accessibility at TfL) was due to meet with the GLA’s Transport Environment Committee in May to present the findings of this project but unfortunately this meeting was cancelled due to the election and has not since been rescheduled. The audit reports have gone to the GLA, via Becky Upfold in the Transport Team, and have been passed to the Green party GLA members (who originally requested the project), as well as members of the Transport Environment Committee. The report is not yet a publicly available document and was produced in response to the Green party request and as such, TfL have asked us to point out that the report is to be used to provide a better understanding of the pedestrian environment around London's mainline stations and to enable better planning when improving the stations."

Strange then that vital information about walking routes around the station is not being made available either to the public or to Network Rail. King's Cross is being redeveloped right now. Network Rail is removing a key walking route and not replacing it with anything. Surely TfL and the Greater London Assembly must see the urgency of releasing the report's findings as they relate to King's Cross?

If you have contacts at TfL or the GLA, please ask them to raise this and press for the Living Streets report to be released as a priority.

Comments

[william perrin]

i have put in an FOI request, which might help things along a bit

see

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/please_supply_copy_of_kings_cros

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I think that it is a great mistake to argue for a cyclist facility on such a bridge. The fact is, unfortunately, that cyclists and pedestrians do not mix.
Proof of this is provided daily on our canal towpath. You take your life in your hands as a pedestrian in the early morning. One gets overtaken at great speed by cyclists who give no warning of their approach and seem to take a pride in missing you by millimetres. Those who do signal their approach obviously do so in the expectation that you will promptly get out of their way. Likewise those who approach you head-on. I generalise, but the feeling seems generally to be one of their great superiority to mere pedestrians and of irritation about our presence. I am amazed that no-one has yet ended up in the canal.
Do we really want such a scenario on our bridge (in the unlikely event of one being built for us) ? I wonder if arguing for cyclist use might perhaps reduce the likelihood of a positive outcome to our campaign
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