Road Safety Campaign
Speeding is putting Canning Town South at risk
Since being elected as your councillor for Canning Town South, road safety is the issue I hear about most. Three locations come up again and again — Peto Street North, Silvertown Way, and Minnie Baldock Street — roads that were never designed for the volume of people who now live, walk, and cycle around them, but which still carry traffic moving far too fast for a residential neighbourhood.
I've written to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, the Deputy Mayor for Transport, and Newham Council about this, and joined a police patrol to see the problem first hand. Now I'm asking residents to add their voice too.
The problem
Three streets, one pattern
Each of these locations has a different layout and a different fix, but the underlying story is the same: infrastructure that hasn't caught up with the fact that this is now a residential area.
Peto Street North
Long, uninterrupted stretches with little to physically slow traffic down. Residents describe vehicles moving at speeds distinctly at odds with a quiet residential street.
The ask — Newham Council: An engineering solution from Newham Council — such as speed humps, chicanes, or road narrowing.
Read the full story →Silvertown Way
A busy arterial road (the A1011) built for the docks and factories it once served, now running straight through a residential neighbourhood. Residents describe near-misses and a persistent sense of unease crossing or walking alongside the carriageway.
The ask — Met Police & TfL: Speed enforcement cameras, installed by the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London.
Read the full story →Minnie Baldock Street
A low-speed, pedestrian-oriented street inside the Hallsville Quarter being used as a cut-through from Barking Road — a manoeuvre that forces vehicles across a cycle lane. There have also been incidents of speeding through the Quarter at night.
The ask — Newham Council: An ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera at the Barking Road crossing point, from Newham Council.
Read the full story →What we're asking for
Three practical, achievable actions
- The Metropolitan Police and Transport for London to install speed cameras onSilvertown Way.
- Newham Council to install an ANPR camera on Minnie Baldock Street, at the point where vehicles cross the cycle lane on Barking Road.
- Newham Council to deliver an engineering solution — such as speed humps, chicanes, or road narrowing — on Peto Street North.
None of these are radical asks. They're the kind of measures Vision Zero, the Mayor of London's plan to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on London's roads by 2041 (fully endorsed by Newham Council), already commits us to. What's needed now is for the Met, TfL, and the Council to actually deliver them.
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Add your voice
If you live, work, or travel through Canning Town South, please sign the petition below. The more people who add their name, the harder it is for the Met, TfL and Newham Council to leave these roads as they are.