| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Boris releases schematic of the Hammersmith fly-under | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 09/02/15 17:09:00 |
| "Which will eventually only take the traffic back to its former level." *examines latest Travel In London Report 7* When is this supposed to happen? TiL7 covers this in some depth, comparing the same cohorts from 1991 through 2001 to 2011 and while it does indeed show that older drivers drive more this is mainly because they drove more when they were younger and as you get older you drive less, not unsurprisingly. Demand for driving amongst older people doesn't appear to be related to the amount of roadspace available. From p.59 of TiL7: 'Figure 2.36 shows car driver trip rates for an average weekday by age and gender, comparing 1991 and 2011. The relationship between age and car driver trip rates takes the form of an inverted U-shaped curve for both men and women. In 1991, both genders show peak car driver trip rates in their 40s, which is also the case for women in 2011. However in 2011, car driver trip rates for men peak at 60-64. The figure demonstrates a general lag effect, where the highest car driver trip rates are drifting towards older age groups.' "it can free up space above street level to build homes, shops and businesses etc." Where? The flyover is mostly built over other roads, so unless you remove them as well there's no space to build anything (there's a tiny bit just south of the church that's not over much, to be fair, but it's miniscule). Most of the land shown as buildable on the feasibility studies is actually covered by access roads to the A4 and buildings they want to demolish, including part of the Hop Poles pub. "And insofar as it may re-unite Hammersmith with the removal of the flyover, then that should be a bonus." As a mental exercise, find a map of Hammersmith and rub out the flyover. You find you've still got a massive amount of surface roads separating the centre from the river and indeed the centre from other bits of the centre. |