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Warwick Gardens at night
On 31 Jul 2005 09:59:07 -0700, "Paul Weaver"
wrote: Of course on Thursday night the H&C bridge had closed Wood Lane, so I had to go south to Shepherds Bush. I decided that I'd drop down Holland Park towards Earls Court. I was surprised when I couldn't go straight across out of Addison Road, and had to take a right past Olympia, as there were barriers accross the entrance to Warwick Gardens. Should have gone left as the signs all say (they change when the barriers come down). Then turn right at the Odeon Kensington. Exactly the same distance, just the other two sides of the same rectangle. The lights at the Odeon appear to follow a different pattern at night to accomodate the extra right-turners there at this time. If you really really want to drive down it, just do as the residents do and turn left towards High St Ken and make an immediate U-turn, the road you are talking about is not barried off from traffic heading West towards Hammersmith. But since the alternate route is fine it's really only people that live in the actual street that need to do this. My map (2003) doesn't show that this is a restricted road. What time do the barriers get lowered? They lower at 22:30, occasionally I've been passing when they do so, on a slightly long red phase. The current barriers are new, but there's been an automatic barrier there, closing at 22:30 for decades. It doesn't need to be on a map, the alternative route is perfectly good enough. I think tomorrow night I'll continue round and drive through some residential streets in W14 if the mayor and his cronies insist on closing major thoroughfares. What nonsense. The road you're talking about IS entirely residential and I expect that is why it closes to straight-on traffic at night. I would expect that the barriers were put in when they made that whole Warwick Avenue one way thing happen, as part of winning the residents over to the idea. |
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