Kingston Council Fails To Notify All Residents About Olympic Bike Race
By OFadero | Sunday, August 14, 2011, 11:58
Last night I was kept awake by a lorry dumping cars on my road.
Unfortunately it seems yet again that Kingston council cannot be bothered to tell flat dwellers when they are going suffer due to events causing road closures in the area. This time it was the London-Surrey Cycle Classic Olympic Road Race.
I'm aware they bothered leafleting houses as some of my friends in the area have told me that the London-Surrey Cycle Classic Olympic Road Race was coming this way a couple of months ago, yet oddly neither myself or my neighbours received the same leaflet and we are on an adjacent road to one that has been closed.
When Thames Water closed the road due to water main repairs a couple of years ago neither they nor Kingston council bothered to inform flat dwellers in the area, until I put a complaint in.
Kingston Upon Thames being a London borough will have a lot of flat dwellers and not bothering to inform them in the same way they inform houses that there are road closures adds to traffic congestion and chaos.
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Completely agree with CEOKCC. The event was advertised for MONTHS and all the details were made abundantly clear. If people are regular (or even occasional) users of the route, they would have been aware of it. For those coming from outside the area, it's unrealistic to expect the council to make all of London take note.
While I'm not a fan of Kingston Council at the best of times, they are not at fault on this occasion. Perhaps the public should accept responsibility for their lack of planning/awareness rather than passing the buck and looking for others to blame. In addition, members of the public were being both rude and aggressive to (helpful) marshals. In fact one marshal was driven into by someone in a huff about the road closure.
By jay_l27 at 12:19 on 16/08/11
ReportMy complaint is actually that Kingston Council purposely refuses to engage with and inform those who live in flats in the borough but engage and inform with those who live in houses- they have done this over a few other issues not just this one.
In this case while I knew there would be disruption in Kingston I didn't know that my road and the roads immediately adjacent to me would be directly involved. I am also not the only one who has complained of how much of South West London was effected by this race.
Additionally the cars that where dumped onto my road have now got parking tickets. Kingston Council will probably try and use the fact that they leafleted those residents, when they very likely didn't, as an excuse to try and force them to pay the parking tickets.
By OFadero at 11:29 on 16/08/11
ReportYou'd have to have been asleep for the past 3 months not to have known about the surrey classic, leaflet or no leaflet!
I live in a house on the route and got nothing either but that didn't worry me, and that was elmbridge council.
By CEOKCC at 11:08 on 16/08/11
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