Location Manager: Sam Breckman
Location: Junction of Cremer St and Hackney Road E2
Even on a Sunday Hackney Road has 1200 vehicles/hour passing
through as well as 12 buses scheduled in each direction/hour.
The location also straddles the border between two boroughs,
Hackney and Tower Hamlets and is close to the Columbia Road
Flower market.
Before a road closure could be granted the above factors
needed to be addressed. In addition to notices in the local
Gazette required by law other measures were taken to ensure
the success of the shoot.
Two diversions around Hackney Road able to carry the
volume of traffic were worked out.
London Buses agreed to divert bus routes as, at the suggestion
of the FiLM Office, the production offered to run shuttle
buses along Hackney Road taking passengers to where regular
buses could pick them up.
Large advance warning notices were posted along Hackney
Road and on all approaches prior to the Sunday before
the shoot to advise market traffic of the road closure.
15,000 residents in the immediate area were informed
of the closure so that they could plan to avoid the closed
section.
In terms of satisfying the logistics of the locality the
shoot was deemed as success. As for the film, judge for yourself
from the pictures.
