| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Boris releases schematic of the Hammersmith fly-under | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 09/02/15 13:11:00 |
| I like what I'm reading, keep going. I'll just say that the Hammersmith image is one of the West London Link ones, which if you visit their website is supported by Halcrow, who make money from civil engineering. They're now known as CH2M Hill and did the feasibility studies for LBHF as well, which close reading of indicates that they don't actually work. By curious coincidence TfL's now former Director of Planning Michelle Dix (who apparently is behind this) used to work for Halcrow in the 1980s when they were working on the Tories' plans for massive roadbuilding in Hammersmith and Chiswick. They don't appear to have got the message yet. That one released image is old and drawn wrong, you can't put the portal that far west as you have to leave enough space to go under the four-track Underground line, which is by the Ark. When I mapped the short route based on the feasibility study the eastern portal was straddling Gliddon Road and the west one was outside Hammersmith Town Hall. Incidentally I don't think the Chalkers Corner idea (which is presumably demolishing the buildings on the south to create a massive underpass for the A316 to deconflict it from the South Circular) would be floated if they didn't have plans for the bit between there and Hammersmith, otherwise all you'd do is create a big jam by Chiswick School. You'd have thought they'd also have spotted that speeding up the A205 doesn't exactly help when you've got the whole Kew section as a rather bigger pinchpoint. Basically it's another shiny shiny bad idea that someone's inserted into Boris's endlessly receptive mug's brain. This is why he shouldn't be allowed power, he's too easy to sell crap to. |