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Shoreditch example rubs salt into Croydon wounds
To celebrate the end of the Shoreditch one-way gyratory, Shoreditch Town Hall Trust and the London Cycling Campaign in Hackney have invited Croydon residents to a Two-Way Day Tea Party on Sunday, 15th December.
Cakes in the shape of road signs will be cut to celebrate the end of the notorious 1960s Shoreditch one-way system, and return of two-way traffic around the Triangle. Phase 1 of the two-way traffic reforms are now almost complete, featuring bus-and-cycle priority measures, wider pavements, new crossings, and more direct journeys for everyone. An anti-clockwise group cycle ride round the Triangle, legal for the first time in 37 years, will start and finish at the Town Hall.
The new scheme seems likely to be a sore reminder to Croydon, and in particular Upper Norwood residents, of the improved two-way scheme they should have had. Such a scheme was originally proposed for the Upper Norwood Triangle by consultants Colin Buchanan & Partners; however it was eventually rejected by Croydon Council in favour of a disastrously unpopular and out-dated one-way alternative.
To read about the social, economic and environmental benefits that Hackney expects the two-way reform of its own one-way Triangle to bring, visit www.lookbothways.org.uk.
Trevor Parsons of LCC in Hackney added a personal invitation to the people of Croydon: "We'd be delighted if people cheesed off about the Upper Norwood Triangle muck-up would accept our invitation to attend Two-Way Day in Shoreditch. This will be a great opportunity to promote the removal of gyratories all over London, whether original '60s and '70s items or bizarre throwbacks like the Upper Norwood Triangle."
