With no advance notice at all, something has happened in the streets around our home. Something that has usually mute, and disinterested London dwellers chatting in the street.
The drive to our house has become almost impossible, our neighbours journeys likewise disrupted. We are people united over vehicular rights of way.
New road changes combined with HS2 shenanigans have really irritated an entire neighbourhood. One evening last week I had to detour almost to the west end. I had driven up, down, around, I reversed, u-turned and cursed through my neighbouring streets unable to get home. On a walk today I witnessed multitudes of drivers doing the same. I smiled, tutted and rolled my eyes, I after all am in the know now.
Many roads have been made one way, some no motor vehicles, some have become dead ends. Not all of these road use changes have been sign posted. You may not be aware that a street is now a dead end until you meet the giant planters used to block it’s junction. Others have been sign posted determinedly, the signs in the middle of the road. The planners plans for one of these signs may not have worked as expected, although it did indeed get its message across. Please see the attached image of an actual incident.
I wonder if Camden council’s, road traffic planning division, enlisted the help of Henry Wise and George London. This would have needed the aid of a spirit medium, but I’m sure the Devil would have given the gentlemen day release to further torment humanity with their signature garden amusements.
Frustration, desperation and panic.
Let’s be clear everyone, mazes are not fun, I know it, Stanley Kubrick knew it and Cedric Digby knows it.
It’s time Camden knew it too.
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