CCC was consulted early in 2006 on TfL and Camden Council's scheme to make Judd Street one way.

If this scheme were to go ahead it would seriously undermine the safety of cyclists on the north-south route on Mabledon Place. That's quite apart from creating yet another gyratory, this time around the Town Hall.

On Friday 10th March the Ham and High has published an excellent article by Matt Eley: 'Cyclists warn against accident blackspot'.

Ham and High article

He notes that a spokeswoman from Camden Council says 55% of those consulted were in favour. So at this stage we felt there was definitely hope that we could help to defeat this outrageous proposal.

CCC asked members (and their friends) to write to the local press stating the popularity and usefulness of this cycle route and giving arguments as to why this scheme should not go ahead. Many letters were published.

CCC response to the original consultation

Judd St proposal sent back for further study

CCC took a deputation to the Executive Environment Committee on 21st March 2006 and with the help of Judd Street residents and local councillors, the proposal was sent back for further study. We expected a further consultation in September 2006.

CCC Report on Midland Road

CCC studied the report on Kings Cross Area Modelling (Buchanans Report for TfL, July 2005), which contained traffic perdictions for the junction of Midland Road/Judd Street/Euston road. This report stated that for teh jucntion to work, Judd St must be one-way and there should be a left turn from Mabledon place into Euston Road. We challenged this assumption in a report of our own: The Judd Street one-way scheme and Midland Road. Our report showed that if private vehicles were to be kept out of Midland Road, the junction would work with Judd Street vtwo-way and there could be room for contarflow cycling in Midland Road.

Judd St one-way scheme finally stopped

We think that our report may have been instrumental in TfL asking Buchanans to recalculate their figures fo vehicle movements in Midland Road. Even after that, we were threatened with a re-consultation in Sept 2006. However, CTRL, at a very late stage (13 Oct 2006) produced accurate figures for the number of taxis that would use Midland Road once St Pancras International Station opens. The revised figures result in a significant reduction in the predicted number of taxis. Colin Buchanan put these revised figures into the traffic model for the consented scheme and found that the revised taxi flows would result in the saturation of the junction reducing to a worst case of 94.6%. So the Judd one-way scheme is for the time being a thing of the past. But we need to do further work to get two-way cycling in Midland Road. This is being pursued in the context of Kings Cross Area Cycling. CCC campaign for cycling in the KX area