Unnamed street confusion

Published: 5 May, 2011

• THERE is a new version, dated 2010, of the Local Area Map on bus stop shelters in Camden Town, based on the Ordnance Survey which has much to commend it.  

However, more important is an omission – especially as next year the world descends on our capital for the Olympic Games – is that Transport for London shows two important streets, both bus routes, but does not name them at all. 

This has led to both Agar Grove and Eversholt Street not being listed in the index of street names.  

The northern part of Royal College Street, between Camden Road and Kentish Town Road, is also not named and that is a cause for confusion for visitors, who thus reasonably assume that Royal College Street runs only from the Royal Veterinary College to the railway station. 

My own street is incorrectly laid out on the map, but this is probably a mistake by OS, albeit one that has proliferated uncorrected for nearly 30 years.  

Barker Drive is also marked, but not named, so it’s no wonder that people have difficulty finding Elm Village.

Both visitors and locals alike deserve better cartography from TfL than this.

LESTER MAY
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