We need some joined up thinking on these roadworks and traffic lights
Thursday, 7th December 2023
• I TRAVEL from Winchmore Hill to Kentish Town by car every month to play and rehearse with my band at a studio in Regis Road.
This is not a journey I can do via public transport due to the equipment I bring with me. Recently I encountered roadworks at the junction with Kentish Town station and the Assembly Rooms, connected with works on the bridge which may be going on for some time.
An article in your newspaper explained that this may also result in a ban on buses and taxis using the main road through Kentish Town or possible road closures.
Meanwhile I have sat in traffic coming from the direction of Highgate Road and would like to know why the temporary traffic lights at the junction with Leighton Road are on completely the wrong sequence.
It is almost impossible during the day to get across the junction into Regis Road in under
30 minutes because when the lights go green the ones by the junction with Fortess Road are still red and don’t change for several minutes; by which time the Leighton Road lights are back on red.
Coming out of Regis Road you end up passing massive queues heading in the opposite direction. Is this something that Transport for London or camden Council or the contractors should be sorting out? It doesn’t say much for reducing pollution to have so much standing traffic.
NEIL LITTMAN, N21