The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how communities in Camden live, travel and work. We want to transform our streets so they have more safe space for everyone to walk and cycle, for children to get to and from school safely, for you to be breathing cleaner air, to reduce carbon emissions from road transport and for businesses to flourish. We want to ensure that our streets support recovery from the pandemic and provide a lasting legacy of greener, safer, healthier travel, helping us to deliver our wider Transport Strategy objectives.
To help we have been making changes across Camden in our Safe and Healthy Streets Programme. This included making trial changes on Prince of Wales Road in July 2020 and adding a new cycle lane to make getting around by bike easier.
Camden Council is now consulting on making the trial (eastbound) cycle lane permanent, and creating a safer and healthier Street, by introducing a number of additional changes. Following the feedback we've received over the past 12 months, the proposed changes are intended to improve conditions for walking and cycling as well as contributing towards improved road safety and air quality.
You can find further information on the proposals in the Information Sheet in the Related Information section below. Here you can also view the scheme drawings and see some example images of some of the proposed measures.
The proposals include:
Below you can view visualisations of the proposed changes to the scheme currently under consultation. These visualisations will automatically change while you watch.
They will show you what the area looked like before the scheme, what it looks like now and what the consultation proposals would look like.
You can also find out more about the scheme at one of our drop in sessions. To keep you and our staff safe, these sessions will be socially distanced with hand sanitiser available. Masks will be required unless exempt due to health reasons and if the sessions are busy you may be asked to wait outside until space is available.
Session 1: 23 September 2021 (Thursday) from 16:00 to 19:00
Session 2: 30 September 2021 (Thursday) from 16:00 to 19:00
Location: Castlehaven Community Centre, 23 Castlehaven Rd, London NW1 8RU
As 69% of households in the area do not own a car and public transport patronage levels remain lower than before then the pandemic, we know that safe and easy walking, cycling and scooting routes are more important than ever. Supporting and encouraging those who are able to walk and cycle, by creating safer streets will ensure that there is more space available on public transport and on our roads for those who need it the most.
After the consultation, a decision report will be produced and published online via our website. Local residents and stakeholders will be notified of the outcome. The report will consider a broad range of information including consultation responses, feedback received during the trial period, relevant policies and other data/information including monitoring information collected during the trial period.
All of this information will be considered in making a recommendation in the report about whether, at the end of the trial period, the experimental scheme should be made permanent, modified or allowed to lapse.
As the consultation is now closed. Your views, and those of everyone who contributes to this consultation, will be analysed and considered, alongside relevant data available on the scheme and in light of how the scheme aligns with our current policy objectives, in order to put forward recommendations on whether to proceed with the proposals.
If you have any other ideas for improvements to make travel safer and healthier in this area, please go to Safe Travel Camden Map to make some suggestions.
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