I was asked on Twitter this week when the “Billy Fury traffic lights” (nice name, I guessed it meant the pelican crossing by the West Hampstead Overground station near Billy Fury Way) would be switched on again now that the combined works by Thames Water and the National Grid on West End Lane had finished.
I’ve been checking it out with the Camden officers who are valiantly trying to coordinate all the work and the news isn’t great for those of us looking forward to normal service being resumed in West End Lane.
First of all, Thames Water are going to be carrying out works in West End Lane to lay on new supplies to the Post Office next week (week commencing 27 September) – work that should take one week.
But following that, Camden will be closing Iverson Road as from 4 October for six weeks as part of the “streetscape” project there to tie in with the new Thameslink station being built on Iverson Road and the associated work being done by Network Rail.
That’s not great news for people who want to drive in and out of Iverson Road, but it does mean that the notoriously dangerous West End Lane/Iverson Road junction will be easier to cross for the duration, and we can look forward to permanent improvements when Iverson Road reopens.
But the temporary Iverson Road closure also means that the traffic lights in that part of West End Lane will have to be “thrown dead” as the techies say, and temporary traffic lights installed once again.
We’ll all benefit from this work in the end but the continuing disruption is hard to live with. So it’s a relief to hear that Camden have listened to our pleas to take pity on the long-suffering users of West End Lane and have decided to delay the West End Lane part of the “streetscape” project until after Christmas to give us a break from constant roadworks.
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