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Permalink Reply by David Graves (your Alderman) on May 10, 2013 at 0:54

I appreciate the difficulty and sympathise with what you say - this is a point others have raised before. One of the problems is that the west side of Goswell Road lies in Islington rather than the City - so any solution involves the City and Islington co-ordinating. Such an idea ought not to be unthinkable - indeed it is nothing less than perfectly sensible. 

Elected Members (like me) have some clout in these matters, but there is nothing like genuine grass roots pressure to add momentum - Officers look to the overall case and demand for change rather than just following an elected Member who has a bee in his bonnet about something. 

I can certainly ask Officers what the "test" is to justify adding a zebra crossing - there ought to be some objective criteria - and if there is a case bolstered by community support for the idea, and we can get Islington on board, we may be able to make something happen here. However, I know this has been looked into in the past, and the answer was not at that time encouraging.

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Permalink Reply by Lubellule on May 10, 2013 at 10:36

Well I can tell you that I have already verified that they are in discussion with Islington over this as I have been lobbying for this.  I gave them empirical data I gathered myself as well.  I have a feeling this is going to happen but I put it to people to call in to support this since there is power in numbers.

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Permalink Reply by Lubellule on May 11, 2013 at 12:31

Thanks Christine!  I have now signed it.  

I will circulate this around as well.

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Permalink Reply by JM on May 14, 2013 at 16:19

Signed. ;-)

Christine Clifford said:

Sign he petition
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/city-of-london-corporation-an...

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