The East Dulwich councillors have been campaigning for our streets to be safer. Many residents have contacted us about speeding vehicles. We’ve provided the local Police with a state of art speed gun and display. But on some streets the speed limit is excessive.

Just before the summer holidays traffic and speed counters were installed for a fortnight on 22 of the 65 streets in East Dulwich. On some streets several were installed.

The governments rules to make a street 20mph is that the mean average speed must be lower than 24mph. The results of the counters are below. The next step is for officers to meet the police and other emeregency services and agreed that their happy for these streets to be made 20mph in principle. Local residents are then formally consulted. Then we have to by law advertise this in the local papers (now you know why lots of council tax money on publicity goes), then the signs go up and we should see an average speed reduction due to the signs of 1-3mph. Then local Police can enforce such reasonable speeds on wholly residential roads in East Dulwich.

Street                         Mean Average/mph

Ashbourne Grove             18.9

Bassano Street              14.0

Blackwater Street           15.1

Chesterfield Grove          18.4

Crystal Palace Road       13.8->16.8

Cyrena Road                  14.8

Derwent Grove                18.4

Elsie Road                     18.1

Goodrich Road               16.6->21.4

Heber Road                   15.5->19.3

Jennings Road               19.3

Landcroft Road               18.5->19.3

Matham Grove               18.4

Melbourne Grove            18.1->19.2

Pellatt Road                   15.9->19.9

Rodwell Road                 18.9

Silvester Road                18.7->21.6

Tell Grove                      13.3

Thompson Road             17.5

Tintagel Crescent            13.1

Zenoria Street                 15.6

(where a range has been shown several counters deployed)

We’re now thinking about the next batch of East Dulwich streets – Whateley, Nutfield have been highlighted to us by residents.

Does your street have speeding vehicles that need to be calmed?