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Speaker 1

It’s almost like it was designed by road management as a symbol to tell you that a zebra crossing might be coming up because it’s immediately recognisable. It’s so simple.

Speaker 2

People always go through the red light, you know, trying to get that last chance to get through as well. So that takes away the 10 seconds that you have to dash across the road because someone’s coming through. It’s really the worst place that I’ve ever crossed the road.

Ian Rathbone

I wrote to TFL naively thinking that they would do something because it is obviously dangerous when you stand and look at it. They said they couldn’t do anything. Their reasons were that there have been no fatalities here. So it has to be that somebody dies before you actually do anything about investing in the crossing.

Speaker 1

It’s completely a method of re-claiming the streets. It’s very simple. You’re not hurting anyone.

Speaker 3

To residents who are really frustrated about the lack of crossing, what would you suggest?

Ian Rathbone

All they can do is to wait now.

Speaker 1

I was really thinking about this zebra crossing and I thought it was quite easy to make your own zebra crossing.

Ian Rathbone

They say this is a major road out of London. And as I said to them, is it that cars come first? And they said, would you want to stop the buses? My answer to that is people come before things.

Speaker 1

You just kind of reclaim things. I think that’s really important, especially when people’s voices aren’t heard. If we just painted a zebra crossing, nobody would really think twice about it. But nobody would consider, like, the fact that there is, like, a real whole network of people that have really been actively trying to get that situation fixed. The weapons, the weapons of mass construction. So stand behind me. Hide this. Yeah. Closer.

Speaker 4

Lovely. That’s a zebra crossing.

Speaker 1

What do you think? That was the police?

Speaker 5

Pig. Pig. Stop him. Say something in your defence.

[SIREN]

Speaker 6

Amazing. The kids are like, oh, that’s cool. I mean, [INAUDIBLE] zebra crossing. Oh, it’s brilliant. I hope it worked.

Speaker 7

That’s really cool.

Speaker 8

I love them. I like the wildlife on television, see?

Speaker 9

That’s really neat – this is a brilliant idea, actually.

Speaker 8

That’s a very, very, bad crossing. So it’s badly needed.

Speaker 10

Zebras? Lovely.

Speaker 11

They seem nice.

Speaker 12

I like the zebras. Brighten up the rainy day.