The exceptionally busy Camden Excessive Avenue might grow to be rather more nice to stroll alongside, as Camden Council plans to pedestrianise it.
The pedestrianisation could be for an 18-month trial and could be from Camden City station’s entrance as much as simply earlier than the canal. Though it might be a pedestrian house, emergency autos and providers would nonetheless have entry, and northbound biking would even be retained. Supply areas could be created on close by Buck Avenue.
In the meantime, the diverted street site visitors would go alongside Kentish City Highway and rejoin Camden Excessive Avenue by way of Hawley Crescent. As well as, they plan to make Jamestown Highway a method westbound for motor site visitors, creating extra space for outside seating for the various cafes and eating places that line the street.
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time that Camden Council has proposed pedestrianising Camden Excessive Avenue. Plans have been first proven off in 2019 however by no means applied.
If accredited, the proposed Camden Excessive Avenue adjustments could be applied as a trial, utilizing short-term supplies, below an Experimental Visitors Order (ETO) for a most of 18 months. After that, a full public session on whether or not or to not make these adjustments everlasting could be carried out a couple of 12 months into the pedestrianisation trial, giving them time to resolve whether or not to retain it as a everlasting pedestrianised street or scrap it.
There will likely be a pop-up stand to indicate off the plans outdoors Buck Avenue Market subsequent Tuesday (sixteenth July) from 9am to 5pm.
Responses to the session to start out the Camden Excessive Avenue trial pedestrianisation might be despatched right here.
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