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Danger by the station
• IF the health and safety brigade at Camden Council want something to investigate I suggest they look at the very dangerous chaos outside Gospel Oak overground station each weekday from 7.30am to 8.45am.
The North London and Barking lines have now been closed for a week and will continue to be so for several months for engineering work. Many primary and secondary schoolchildren pass through this area in the mornings and afternoons and there is a large primary school right next to the station.
At times there are six or seven rail replacement buses parked in the area with regular buses having to pick up passengers in the middle of the road. In some cases buses are parked on the zebra-crossing approach with their engines running polluting the area.
Mansfield Road is even more heavily clogged than usual with traffic and it is extremely dangerous for cars trying to get out of Oak Village.
Schoolchildren and residents have difficulty in trying to cross the road as hordes of rail passengers rush to get on the replacement buses.
The eastern section of the North London line, which is still operational, now has only two trains instead of four per hour, thus increasing the numbers of people per train who have to get off at Gospel Oak.
I wrote to Transport for London and it took several reminders before I got a bland response.
I asked for a copy of the risk assessment but was refused.
I would urge the council to investigate the very real dangers. Perhaps they could do a risk assessment and force TfL to address the dangers.
MICK FARRANT
Oak Village, NW5
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