Morning:
3°c
Camden High Street is to get a radical overhaul to make visitors and residents safer.
In a £1.5million project, the street, which is a huge draw for shoppers and tourists, will be transformed with signs taken away, road markings removed and pavements widened.
Similar schemes in Holland have shown that they lead drivers to slow down and take greater care. The project also aims to encourage more people out of their cars. Chris Knight, Camden council's environment spokesman said: "This pioneering scheme aims to upgrade the high street and make it even more attractive, pleasant and safe."
It has been developed and jointly funded by the council and Camden Town Unlimited, the local business improvement district. The work should be completed by March. Simon Pitkeathley, chief executive of Camden Town Unlimited, said: "It's great that the public and private sectors can work together to deliver projects like this."
The scheme comes after new plans for Camden Market, which burned down in February last year, were revealed.
The site at the north end of the High Street will have a new covered market alongside the Regent's Canal in buildings with distinctive rooftop pavilions linked by walkways. There will also be 130 new homes.
Reader views (3)
What is going on? Would it be better to closed the road at weekends? That would make it alot more safer. Then they could spend the moneny on something worth while.
- James Clarke, London
They only need one sign in Camden - "Other Places - Less Than 1 mile away".
- Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one
What is going on ,a road with no hump, whatever next.
- Mr S.Port, London
