Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Car free day throughout the Chiswick High Rd area? | |
Posted by: | Mat Smith | |
Date/Time: | 14/07/18 19:08:00 |
Sarah, don't make me get technical with you. Oh... go on then. Lunatic is defined in my Oxford English Dictionary as: 1. an insane person 2. someone foolish or eccentric I was going with option 2, anyway even if I set-aside your virtue-signalling, the other points you made are pretty foolish as well. >> "We all are familiar with what happens if Chiswick High Road is congested for even half an hour, a whole day even at the weekend, would result in stationary traffic spewing out fumes in residential areas" CHR is a residential road. I live on it. We regularly suffer from serious congestion, as do the surrounding roads. Closing part of the road may or may not increase traffic in the surrounding roads. This happens all the time in London for reasons of e.g. emergency water / gas / electrics work. London still runs, people can still get around. So if you live on a surrounding road, then my message to you is this: it's 364 days per year of those fumes you mentioned for me, and 1 day for you. >> "There may be too many vehicles on Chiswick High Road but it is designed to carry a relatively high level of traffic" Chiswick High Road with its wide pavements wasn't "designed" at a point in time, it evolved from a route into London (16th Century) into a tree and house-lined road (1890s) and I'm very surprised you are arguing that it was designed for a high level of vehicular traffic. >> "What exactly would be the point?" To experiment. TfL are experts at traffic modelling but not even they are able to predict what people will do when certain routes are closed. Oh, and to have one day to show traders that their footfall might actually increase if the rat run is closed down completely. Actually there are so many other reasons for a car free day, but again - it comes down to imagination. |