Jill, Alan and Hamish recently took up local residents’ concerns about the considerable difficulties still being encountered in crossing the roads at the “Windsor Castle” junction on the A232 Red Route. This is of course where Park Hill, Carshalton Road, Pound Street and Beynon Road all meet, and we received the following message from the Council’s Highways Officer who has liaisd with Transport for London on this topic for us:-
- The Windsor Castle, Carshalton
“I can confirm that both the A232 and traffic signals (within London), are the responsibility of Transport for London (TfL). However, I refer to the 2 March 2011, when I received the following response from TfL, relating to a similar enquiry….. “The possibility of adding a pedestrian facility to this junction has been explored in the past but we have not been able to introduce this due to the impact on the capacity of the junction”. I have therefore cc’ed TfL into my response, so that they may confirm to you whether or not the situation has changed.”
Hamish handed in a petition at the Council about 20 years ago during a previous stint as ward councillor for Carshalton Central and was given more or less the same response! In those days the road was under the Council’s control until the Greater London Authority Act (c. 1998/9, we think it was) transferred the responsibility of the road junction and the A232 to Transport for London.