TfL "taken to task" over Brixton roadworks
January 24, 2009 11:10 AM
Caroline Pidgeon AM met with other Lib Dem campaigners and senior TfL officials in Brixton
Improvement works in Brixton town centre are causing chaos for commuters, according to Vauxhall Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner Caroline Pidgeon AM.
Ms Pidgeon met with senior officials from Transport for London (TfL) in Brixton on Monday at rush hour to see for themselves the mess left by contractors on the site. In an hour-long briefing also attended by local Liberal Democrat Councillors Ashley Lumsden and Roger Giess and Streatham's Parliamentary Spokesman, Chris Nicholson, officers were taken to task over ongoing traffic congestion, health and safety risks from misplaced barriers around the works, and piles of debris left in mounds near street lights and bus stops.
Commenting, Caroline Pidgeon said:
"These works have been going on for months, yet when we visited not a single contractor was on site getting on with the job.
"Instead, the works have been left unfinished for months on end, with some serious trip hazards in places. We have asked Transport for London to learn lessons from these works so that when they start on Brixton Square they limit the nuisance to local residents and passengers from the wider area."
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