Option 1
West Greenwich Option A
This creates four mini-LTNs (plus one-way access to Lindsell St and Plumbridge St). It is similar to the 2020 scheme, except more restrictive for residents and liable to create longer boundary detours.
Pink zone drivers must enter and exit from the Crooms Hill (Stockwell Street) or Royal Hill junctions with Greenwich High Road. Any need for door-step parking or delivery on the Royal Hill section from James Woolf School to Royal Place will require a three-point turn. To access any other part of the area, pink zone necessitates driving around one to two sides of the boundary. To access East Greenwich (southside or yellow zone), drivers must travel along GSS, turn left into the A2 at Blackheath Hill, continue beyond the Sun and Sands to Shooters Hill Road, turn left into Old Dover Road, and head towards the Standard Gyratory. Alternatively, the northern sector of East Greenwich is accessible from Trafalgar Rd/Woolwich Road.
Red Zone can be accessed via narrow ‘Little Royal Hill’ or Blissett Street, and turning achieved by driving around Brand St and Prior St.
As before, Blue Zone has access to the A2 with no right turn at the Hyde Vale exit and a dangerous uncontrolled right turn at the top of Crooms Hill.
This creates four mini-LTNs (plus one-way access to Lindsell St and Plumbridge St). It is similar to the 2020 scheme, except more restrictive for residents and liable to create longer boundary detours.
Pink zone drivers must enter and exit from the Crooms Hill (Stockwell Street) or Royal Hill junctions with Greenwich High Road. Any need for door-step parking or delivery on the Royal Hill section from James Woolf School to Royal Place will require a three-point turn. To access any other part of the area, pink zone necessitates driving around one to two sides of the boundary. To access East Greenwich (southside or yellow zone), drivers must travel along GSS, turn left into the A2 at Blackheath Hill, continue beyond the Sun and Sands to Shooters Hill Road, turn left into Old Dover Road, and head towards the Standard Gyratory. Alternatively, the northern sector of East Greenwich is accessible from Trafalgar Rd/Woolwich Road.
Red Zone can be accessed via narrow ‘Little Royal Hill’ or Blissett Street, and turning achieved by driving around Brand St and Prior St.
As before, Blue Zone has access to the A2 with no right turn at the Hyde Vale exit and a dangerous uncontrolled right turn at the top of Crooms Hill.
Option 2
Option B cuts all access from the A2 (unless using a Blue Badge or black cab), and creates inbound access to the entire area via the northern end of Crooms Hill from Greenwich High Road. Two other main conduits for entry are Little Royal Hill and Blissett Street. This means that an east-west run through the area will be created between Greenwich High Road and the south end of GSS.
The focus on Blissett Street as the second entrance/exit for the entire area will put pressure on its uncontrolled junction with GSS and on the dangerous BHH and GSS junction. It is likely to replicate queues witnessed during the last LTN but will create far worse queuing because of the extent of access from the south of the area. Last time round, the Royal Hill 'barrier' meant that the enormous south side had access to the A2.
The focus on Blissett Street as the second entrance/exit for the entire area will put pressure on its uncontrolled junction with GSS and on the dangerous BHH and GSS junction. It is likely to replicate queues witnessed during the last LTN but will create far worse queuing because of the extent of access from the south of the area. Last time round, the Royal Hill 'barrier' meant that the enormous south side had access to the A2.
Option 3
Option C If the Transport Department had set out to create ‘rat-runs’ through the area, they could not have done better than to invent this Option, which will
• take right-turning traffic off the A2, allow a left turn into King George Street, a left turn on Point Hill and a right turn on Winforton Street and a left turn into Blissett Street exiting at the A2 end of GSS
• one ways from Greenwich High Road from Burney Street, to one way Royal Hill and into Blissett Street will also neatly avoid the A206; while a similar route could provide a route from Greenwich High Road to the A2 via Maidenstone Hill, thanks to the entry permitted at the junction with Point Hill.
• take right-turning traffic off the A2, allow a left turn into King George Street, a left turn on Point Hill and a right turn on Winforton Street and a left turn into Blissett Street exiting at the A2 end of GSS
• one ways from Greenwich High Road from Burney Street, to one way Royal Hill and into Blissett Street will also neatly avoid the A206; while a similar route could provide a route from Greenwich High Road to the A2 via Maidenstone Hill, thanks to the entry permitted at the junction with Point Hill.
