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Category Archives: Bad Gyrations KX Campaign
Danger map
Thanks so much to everyone for contributing your experiences of being a road user on the infamous King’s Cross gyratory system. We have started documenting each issue you have raised in a new google map (bear with us, it’s a slow process!). We aim … Continue reading
Road Safety – political reaction update – Lib Dem questions to Mayor
I wrote on Saturday about the bits of political reaction I had picked up so far on the Kings Cross road safety issue, including work from Islington Labour and the Greens. The Lib Dems have got in touch with some … Continue reading
Road safety – Political reaction
There’s been a strong cross party reaction to the tragic death of a young cyclist on the dangerous roads of Kings Cross. We try not to get into divisive party politics here on this site (our readers tell us they … Continue reading
‘Bad Gyrations’ – tell us your story to help sort out deadly Kings Cross streets
The roads that make up TfL's Kings Cross gyratory system are a disgrace. The vast high speed roundabout of one way roads is proven to be deadly. Plainly unfit for a decade or more, condemnded in TfL's own report three … Continue reading
BBC London features Kings Cross road safety campaign
Resident Sophie Talbot braved the Kings Cross gyratory on her bike for a BBC London news piece today on London's deadly road junctions with some hair raising bike cam footage. Tom Edwards the transport correspondent does a good job summing … Continue reading
Kings Cross dangerous roads – letter to police investigating fatality
The police road traffic unit based in Wembley are investigating the fatal accident at the junction of York Way and the Euston Road that I wrote about on Friday. In yesterday's update I said I would find and write to … Continue reading
Kings Cross cyclist and pedestrian deaths and injuries – corporate manslaughter by TfL?
Local residents have long campaigned for improvement of the dangerous junctions at the York Way, Pentonville, Grays Inn Road intersection. In February 2008 a number of us took part in a walkabout with TfL-commissioned contractors TRL limited and Living Streets … Continue reading
Clean air in London
Modern air pollution isn't as visible as the old pea-soupers, but it is just as insidious. In areas like Kings Cross with insane road traffic levels, constrcution trafffic, long taxi ranks, bus stands and plenty of diesel trains air pollution … Continue reading