Letter - world's most expensive road?

The new road must be one of the worlds most expensive, another RBKC first.

The grey granite blocks stain easily and according to a council report the new road must have a 20mph speed limit due to poor skid resistance.

Traffic capacity on this important link has been cut by 63% The new £8m carriageway running between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore has no markings at all on the west side to show where the road ends.

This is dangerous for both pedestrians and drivers as the former can walk into the road without knowing. Indeed they are encouraged to do so as the council has installed many of their own signs telling drivers to 'Give Way to Pedestrians'

There is no light controlled crossing so that the blind and other disadvantaged groups including the elderly who need one for their safety will needlessly be placed at risk when crossing the road.

So much for all RBKC's hype that there will be access for all. Better design would have enabled at least £10m to have been saved. Enough to build the new lifts at South

Kensington Station needed for wheelchair users to enable them to access Exhibition Road.

Further waste of taxpayers money lies in the new tall lamp standards which cost £29,000 each.


Dr G Taylor
West London Residents Association