Category Archives: Road Safety in Kings Cross

KX road safety reduced to the toss of a weighted coin

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

In 2008 consultants working for Transport for London (the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory and Living Streets) completed a report into road safety around King’s Cross. It was a detailed document describing the individual danger points throughout the area and giving recommendations for each. It warned … Continue reading →

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Central St Martins begin online petition

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sean Murray

There are many strands to the community’s re-action to the continual failure of TfL to manage our space in a sensible and safe way. Here’s another good example. A message from Central St Martins / University of Arts London: lobby … Continue reading →

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The Trib reports on Deep Lee award

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

Extract from the Islington Tribune 11 November 2011: “CENTRAL St Martin’s College is to set up a special award in memory of an “exceptional” young student following her death last month. A proposal for a series of lasting tributes was … Continue reading →

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Deep in life

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Clare Hill

Around 70 friends, fellow students and teachers paid tribute to Deep Lee in an emotional memorial event at Central St Martins on Thursday evening. The fashion student died after a collision with a lorry on the King’s Cross gyratory exactly … Continue reading →

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Excellent Camden New Journal road safety article

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

This week’s Camden New Journal, sister paper of the Islington Tribune includes a strong article about the possible corporate manslaughter charge being brought against Transport for London following the tragically avoidable death of 24 year old student Deep Lee (Min … Continue reading →

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King’s Cross Square: the plans submitted for approval

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Robert Milne

King’s Cross Square is the main topic at the next meeting of the King’s Cross Development Forum. There will be presentations from Network Rail (partly for London Underground) and the architects, Stanton Williams. You should come to the meeting if … Continue reading →

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Camden Council wants you to tell them about road safety

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

Camden’s culture and environment scrutiny committee is calling on cyclists to provide written submissions of their experiences on roads across the borough, particularly on main roads which are managed by Transport for London, which includes the notorious King’s Cross Gyratory … Continue reading →

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Living Streets 20mph campaign

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Sophie Talbot

The excellent Living Streets is campaigning for a 20mph speed limit right across London. Here Camden Community radio interviews Caroline Russell from Living Streets and Sophie Talbot from King’s Cross Community Projects about road safety (starting at 10.44 in), particularly … Continue reading →

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