Work started in July 2016 as part of the Rediscover Mitcham Project, to convert the pedestrianised street, between the Kings Arms and white Lion pubs, to a ‘bus street’. This appeared to have been completed in January 2017.
Then it was dug up again to lay gas mains, and this is ongoing in July 2017, one year after the work started.

Photo taken 3rd July 2017. See www.sgn.co.uk for details.
You really couldn’t make this up if you tried. Talk about a fiasco a Bus Lane that no one wanted in the first place.
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