• Introducing BRAG 
  Welcome by Nicky Coates: BRAG Chair
   
• How Camden Council forgot about residents
  Why the Tavistock Place trial is a failure
   
• Is there a more equitable scheme?
  Why not other options: BRAG's alternative plan

• A flawed consultation process
  How to respond to the form
   
• Q & A
  Open session for residents to share views and considerations

Meeting wrap-up 9.00 pm

From the BRAG website:

For BRAG to be able to represent residents’ views in this consultation process, we must hold a public meeting. If you can attend for all or just part please come. Residents Matter!

 
Here’s a reminder of the key issues:

• Changes to traffic flow at Torrington and Tavistock Place have caused traffic chaos and increased pollution in surrounding streets.

• Removing a westbound route is pushing traffic onto routes round stations and hospitals, impeding emergency services and creating a security risk.

• There was no contact with any resident or small business east of Gordon Square when the West End Project went out to consultation in 2014 (despite this being intrinsically linked to the Tavistock Place / Torrington Place scheme).

• An Experimental Traffic Order was used to impose the scheme for 12 (up to 18) months. This was a legal but useful way to avoid public consultation, which could have made its implementation more difficult.

• The current "consultation" process is seriously flawed. It appears to be a token exercise based on the intention by Camden for the scheme to be made permanent. 

• Permanent residents of central London, who are voters and tax payers, are being consistently ignored in favour of those passing through the area (commuting cyclists) or who are relatively transient (students).

• We are not anti-cycling but feel that Camden should be proposing an equitable scheme for all road users. We walk, we cycle and support sustainable means of transport.  But many residents are infirm or housebound and need to use a motor vehicle. Residents need to get around by car if necessary.  Residents need tradesmen. Local businesses need deliveries.

• We are particularly annoyed that Camden has made the consultation a binary choice: we must either support the new scheme or it’s back to the old one.  There are other options that should be explored.  We have worked on an alternative plan, a summary of which is on our website. http://www.brag.org.uk

Camden's consultation on the Tavistock Place trial scheme is now running until 21st October.  The survey is on line. click here