New Greenwich Driving Restrictions Applied from Today

AFKABartram

https://www.onegreenwich.org/greenwich-council-sets-start-date-for-new-low-traffic-neighbourhood-scheme?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0--HdLDK0iPx8aWzi2IgOOlWrrPy8SIydPmF26zsbj0H3cKbJ8xBegLy4_aem__SHPA0oMurAUzP7YW2wPHA

Must be honest, I don’t understand this. Fined for ‘crossing zones’. Can anyone explain clearly what you can’t do, drive from and to. 

Up to 7pm, this will effect people for midweek games who drive from the Greeenwich side 

O-Randy-Hunt

A certain party love a low traffic neighbourhood. Just be thankful I guess that it's not 24/7 like many of the other boroughs around London.

Best explanation is you can only stick to the big roads to get from one side to the other rather than using the quickest way which some will call a 'rat run'

ForeverAddickted

Car users really are hated these days arent they

red10

So glad I don't live in London now. Try to fine and tax the bollox off all and sundry for a huge swathe of rules and regs that are barely understood just coz you have a car.

InspectorSands

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2024/11/27/greenwichs-ltn-warnings-before-fines-as-low-traffic-scheme-starts/

SporadicAddick

79% of residents and businesses that responded objected to the scheme.

This is a great read

https://www.onegreenwich.org/council-told-to-reconsider-west-east-greenwich-ltns-at-scrutiny-meeting

O-Randy-Hunt

Pretty sure a poster on here lived within the zone and rejected it along with most other residents when they ran the trial from another thread.

robinofottershaw

Barmy. If you are a visitor driving through the area for the first time is it likely you are going to be aware of and/or understand the rules around this?

O-Randy-Hunt

robinofottershaw said:

Barmy. If you are a visitor driving through the area for the first time is it likely you are going to be aware of and/or understand the rules around this?

You would just look for the no motor vehicle sign which if ignored will result in a fine.

valleynick66

It’s  clearly nothing to do with raising money and purely to manage congestion 🤔

What it means I think is you are for forced to drive on the ‘main’ roads to get anywhere. Surely increases congestion there but not on the local roads. Not sure it helps anyone much. 

carly burn

ForeverAddickted said:

Car users really are hated these days arent they

Yep. The main reason being that the road infrastructure is dwindling and disintegrating in our towns and cities whilst the car population queuing up to use it is rising at an exponential rate.
 Successive Governments and councils haven't got the first f*****g clue on how to sort the catastrophic infrastructure problem. so they're using the driving deterrent method.
Mainly in hope that when we realise we are spending large swathes of our lives sitting in stationary traffic for hours on end we'll finally get fed up and throw our cars and vans in the bin!

twiggyaddick

They tried something similar in Streatham and it ended up being a disaster and removed after about 4 months

BigRedEvil

Read the article and it seems very confusing. Then I looked at the diagrams and now I'm lost

sam3110

The war against the car in South East London rumbles on, and yet they can never find the resources to give us better public transport infrastructure

ken from bexley

This seems a real pain in the arse, not only for  getting to the Valley, but going to Greenwich park  with the Grandkids, which we do most holiday times, as we did at half term?.
Hopefully, we will be able to go out of the 'rush hour', Greenwich Park is a fabulous venue, and one of the gems of SE London.
The Hills are a bit of an issue these days for me, and I have been put of by visiting around Greenwich market for a couple of years because of the parking.
I do hope the signs are clear!
 I used to drive through Greenwich, and Woolwich most days when I worked at Morgan Grampian  in Calderwood street. Greenwich Council have always had an issue with car  drivers, I remember in the early 60's there were several wardens in Woolwich, we used to use the bus as we had no car.
I guess I will have to use my pensioner  bus pass?   
 

JohnBoyUK

I got done by one of these near Tower Bridge on the night of the Queen's funeral.
Didn't even see the bloody sign, got a £120 fine 2-3 weeks later, reduced to £60 if paid within a certain time but I'm still sore from that.

Charlton_Charlie

I live in the zone. Overwhelmingly rejected by the majority of us...imposed anyway...traffic already now using/clogging up the streets it was meant to keep them off of...and in the meantime, I can't (if I needed to) drive to, say the shops at Blackheath Std (or anywhere south of me) from my house near the bottom of Vanburgh Hill without travelling to the a2, up to sun in the sands, then back along old dover road etc etc...adding miles and emissions to the journey... (note: I do try to walk most places locally, as it's good exercise, but that's not always practical)..

seth plum

ken from bexley said:

This seems a real pain in the arse, not only for  getting to the Valley, but going to Greenwich park  with the Grandkids, which we do most holiday times, as we did at half term?.
Hopefully, we will be able to go out of the 'rush hour', Greenwich Park is a fabulous venue, and one of the gems of SE London.
The Hills are a bit of an issue these days for me, and I have been put of by visiting around Greenwich market for a couple of years because of the parking.
I do hope the signs are clear!
 I used to drive through Greenwich, and Woolwich most days when I worked at Morgan Grampian  in Calderwood street. Greenwich Council have always had an issue with car  drivers, I remember in the early 60's there were several wardens in Woolwich, we used to use the bus as we had no car.
I guess I will have to use my pensioner  bus pass?   
 

I love my bus pass, and Mrs P and I either walk to Greenwich Park (about 25 minutes) or get a five minute bus ride to Blackheath Village and walk across the heath to Greenwich Park about four times a week.
In my view you are completely right about Greenwich Park being an absolute gem, but not only of the People’s Republic of South East London, but of London itself, maybe the whole of the UK. Which London park is better than Greenwich Park?

JohnBoyUK

Charlton_Charlie said:

I live in the zone. Overwhelmingly rejected by the majority of us...imposed anyway...traffic already now using/clogging up the streets it was meant to keep them off of...and in the meantime, I can't (if I needed to) drive to, say the shops at Blackheath Std (or anywhere south of me) from my house near the bottom of Vanburgh Hill without travelling to the a2, up to sun in the sands, then back along old dover road etc etc...adding miles and emissions to the journey... (note: I do try to walk most places locally, as it's good exercise, but that's not always practical)..

thats where we need a dislike button!