Roadworks

Lambeth

Date: 11.11.2002
Ref: 1439
Press contact: Isolda McNeill
Tel: 020 7926 2841
Email: imcneill@lambeth.gov.uk

Press Release

Roadworks not down to us, says Lambeth

Lambeth council is erecting signs placing responsibility for the congestion at London's biggest roadworks squarely where it belongs-on the shoulders of Transport for London. Transport for London answers to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.

The signs will go up around Vauxhall Cross, scene of the capital's most notorious roadworks. The council is acting because officers are getting hundreds of phone calls each week from irate motorists who believe the council is to blame for the traffic chaos called by the TfL scheme.

"Lambeth is getting a bad name through TfL mismanagment and through its failure to install courtesy boards informing people who is responsible and how they can complain, " said Councillor Andrew Sawdon, Lambeth council executive member for transport.

"The work at Vauxhall Cross is being undertaken by Transport for London, which is responsible to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Lambeth council is not involved. If yo want to raise any issues about these works please ring Transport for London on 0207 941 2010 or the Greater London Authority on 0207 983 4000, " the signs say.

PHOTO CALL WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 8.30am
Councillor Sawdon will put up the signs at Vauxhall cross at 8.30am on Wednesday November 13. You are invited to send a photographer to xxx. Please notify the Communication Centre on the number above if you would like to attend.

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