More on the Albert Square traffic calming - have your say

The utter pig's ear of a consultation over the Oval Neighbourhood Enhancement Programme rumbles on, to mix some metaphors.

In a move to provide some much needed (and long overdue) clarity, the council has put together a clearer description of the Albert Square traffic calming options currently on the table. If you live in the area you should have received one though your letterbox but it is easily overlooked amidst the pizza leaflets so I reproduce it below for your convenience. If you live in Albert Square, Aldebert Terrace, St Stephen's Terrace, Walberswick Street, Dorset Road or Tradescant Road I recommend you read it and respond.

I confess that I hadn't got these proposals straight in my mind as in the previously purloined map figures 1 and 2 below appeared on top of each other.

But it transpires that in the first two options Albert Square would effectively become one-way (one way or the other).

Some of these proposals have consequences further afield, for example by making it even more difficult for drivers living in the Lansdowne Gardens conservation area to get home from the Clapham Road. But then they have the benefit of practically no through traffic - a situation those living in Albert Square, Aldebert Terrace and Tradescant can only dream of.

I change my mind about it every day, but today this is what I think:

• The introduction of one-way systems will have unintended consequences
• I'd rather see traffic deterred and slowed by the introduction of build-outs and chicanes
• Re: introduction of speed limits: might as well, although as there's no-one around to enforce them, their effect is likely to be negligible.

Anyway, there goes yet another morning of my life. If you have found this useful you can thank me by signing up to Flowers for the Weekend.