By Toby Porter
Green women traffic lights have been installed at 12 factors in South and West London to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women to London on International Women’s Day.
Kirsty Sherwood (left) and Felicity Luckett
Londoners can see the specifically designed symbols at pedestrian crossings on excessive streets in Tooting, Clapham, Brixton and Lewisham in addition to, Hyde Park, the Southbank and alongside Exhibition Road in South Kensington.
The designs are impressed by the theme for International Women’s Day this yr to problem norms.
They depict a various vary of women and problem the frequent picture of a lady in a costume to signify gender.
Felicity Luckett, TfL’s Asset Operations Performance Manager stated: “We are excited to have created a set of recent various inexperienced girl pedestrian crossings to mark International Women’s Day.
“It is necessary we commemorate the laborious work, contributions and success of women throughout London every single day and much more so on International Women’s Day.
“We hope that by growing the visibility of women with these indicators in public and shared areas, Londoners might be reminded of the large contributions of women.”
The lights could be discovered at:
- Junction of London Road and Sydenham Rise, London Borough of Lewisham
- Molesworth Street, London Borough of Lewisham
- Junction of Bermondsey Street, Crucifix Lane and St Thomas Street, London Borough of Southwark
- Jamaica Road by Cathay Street, London Borough of Southwark
- Exhibition Road, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Earls Court Road, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- York Road by Mepham Street, London Borough of Lambeth
- Brixton Road by Brixton Tube station, London Borough of Lambeth
- Clapham High Street by Stonhouse Street, London Borough of Lambeth
- Streatham High Road by Woodbourne Avenue, London Borough of Lambeth
- Tooting High Street by Coverton Road, London Borough of Wandsworth
- Hyde Park Corner by Constitution Hill, City of Westminster
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