Petition to save the South London Line

claphamtownlabour — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:12:31 +0000

South London needs more trains.
Even if you haven’t heard of our South London Line (SLL) you may well have used it. It runs between Victoria and London Bridge via Battersea Park, Wandsworth Rd, Clapham High Street, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Queens Rd Peckham and South Bermondsey. It makes a neat U shape through the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, City of Westminster, Wandsworth and the City of London. It is a vital radial and orbital public transport link for these boroughs and we particularly value it because, unlike long distance services, its possible to find space to get on at our inner London stations and moreover, it serves 3 of London’s most important hospitals – Kings and the Maudsley at Denmark Hill and Guys at London Bridge.

Mayor Boris Johnson (Chair of Transport for London) has agreed to cuts this vital transport line for South London and has ditched all plans to improve services.

If this goes ahead hundreds of local residents, patients and staff at the hospitals who had used the South London Line service to get to Victoria or London Bridge will have been robbed without consultation or warning. Journeys will be complicated by hitherto unnecessary changes en route.

South London badly needs more public transport services, Camberwell in particular. And has anyone mentioned climate change in all this ? Fewer cars should mean more trains!

We have until 2012 to fight off the loss of the South London Line so lets show Mayor Johnson, Transport for London, the Rail Industry and our Transport Ministers that we are not going to be robbed!

Please sign the petition to Mayor Boris Johnson as Chair of Transport for London

Farmers Market on Venn Street

Christopher Wellbelove — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:40:19 +0000

Please find below notification of the temporary closure of Venn Street on the weekend of 25th / 26th October for a speacial farmers market to take place. This follows an earlier trial of a French Market which was very succesful.

TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF VENN STREET

FOR A SPECIAL EVENT (FARMERS’ MARKET)

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that to enable a special event (a Farmers’ Market) to take place in Venn Street, the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth, subject to the agreement of Transport for London, intend to make an Order the effect of which would be to temporarily ban vehicles from entering or waiting in that length of Venn Street which lies between Clapham High Street and Bromell’s Road on 24^th, 25^th and 26^th October 2008.

2 The bans referred to above would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of the appropriate traffic signs on the dates specified above.

3. An alternative route would be available for affected vehicles via Clapham High Street, Stonhouse Street and Bromell’s Road.

4. Whenever the bans referred to in paragraph 1 above apply the Order that imposes the one-way working in Venn Street between its junction with Clapham High Street and its junction with Bromell’s Road in a direction other than from south-east to north-west would be suspended.

Clapham Town Councillors » transport for london

Petition to save the South London Line

Farmers Market on Venn Street