Topic: | Re:We're all Brendan's neighbours | |
Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
Date/Time: | 29/01/15 16:24:00 |
"Newer arrivals to the area, again only anecdotally, appear to favour much larger cars and have more of them" That's at odds with London wide trends, which suggest that new arrivals are less likely to drive. When 'anecdotally' contradicts 'well known demographic trends' it's time to be a bit more rigorous. "One reason for both of us is that we would be likely to lose 8 car lengths per street to double yellow lines" Why? Presumably because the area's so stuffed with cars that they're blocking sight lines and junctions. Again, not a great advert for free parking. "I still say that we should be exploring constructive solutions based on facts, rather than the bludgeoning, one-size-hurts-all, approach of a CPZ" Well, I've been suggesting for years that we'd be better off encouraging modal shift, cycling, walking, non-car centric development, subsidised fares, a re-extended congestion charge, no free parking near shops, heavily taxing gas guzzlers, shooting people who believe that shopping is only ever done by car* and generally divorcing ourselves from using stupidly large, obtrusive and costly lumps of metal for urban transportation might be a good idea, but it tends to attract hysteria. Obviously if you want to go down that route the outcome is going to be a CPZ. Hands up who wants the M4 bus lane back? More constructively, how about some car club spaces? Lots of room on Staveley and Park Rds. * OK, perhaps a bit harsh. Breaking the legs of, then. |