Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Will Chiswick Councillors help Elmwood Road residents or kick their problem into the long grass? | |
Posted by: | Dan Murphy | |
Date/Time: | 28/01/15 10:04:00 |
Thomas, for the hundredth time. "...you're essentially upset that people who don't live here can't have free parking..." No I'm not. I couldn't care less about CPZ one way or the other. I am not trying to put the argument for or against CPZ. I am not in favour or against commuter parking. Or non-residents parking in our roads. My only argument is that the process should be democratic. Whether for CPZ, Wheelie bins, CCTV or anything else. The Traffic Officers, supported by a few Councillors have simply rigged the entire process from the start. Votes and consultations have been blatantly rigged. Those who object have been ignored. People who respond the wrong way to consultation have had their responses thrown in the bin. We have been lied to. The Council are trying to get an area wide CPZ in by stealth, by-passing what should be a transparent local consultation process, owned and controlled by our elected CAF. Our local CAF voted unanimously against CPZ in 2011, that should have been the end of it. But a few influential local residents with unusual access to the lead Member at that time (who had conflicts of interest coming out of his ears) were able to persuade him to bypass the entire democratic process and make up a load of nonsense about "massive displacement" and effectively force a CPZ into an area that was, and remains, overwhelmingly against it. That's what annoys me so much, and why I spend so much time on here explaining it. If 93% of local residents were in favour of a CPZ I would say fantastic, let's have a CPZ. But 93% of residents are against it. So we shouldn't have it. Please stop painting me as a "pro Commuter, pro outsiders, anti CPZ campaigner". I am not. I just want the process to be transparent and democratic. And it is anything but. |