| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How to save the high street | |
| Posted by: | David Lesniak | |
| Date/Time: | 15/01/20 13:39:00 |
| "parliamentary committees" Paul, it's a bit odd you refer to these. I've mentioned repeatedly the Parliamentary Report on High Streets 2030 suggesting you give it a read. My guess is you have not. Had you, you would know easily accessible parking and, in some cases free parking, is cited as one necessary piece of business infrastructure to provide access to whatever amenity is on offer. It seems you want to use this very type of report to contradict what has been found. A bit like a litmus strip indicating acid but you're insisting it reads base. A report from LSE from 2017 indicates the majority of people access their local High Streets by foot. CS9 will undermine the quality of that access as well as the pedestrian experience forcing people on to cramped pavements to benefit a minority group of cyclists. Walking is just as beneficial and environmentally friendly as cycling if not more so. A more balanced, holistic solution is needed. Someone suggested an electric tram from Hammersmith through to Chiswick on a recent thread. Might have been Janice. That would be brilliant. Drop people off at hubs at either end, free up existing roads to be reconfigured to widen pavements and allow for local vehicular traffic and deliveries. Maybe the multiple, redundant buses are part of the problem. "As for how people get here: well in a couple of years there will be one more way to get here than there is now so that's good and is really just a moot point now" Now is the problem. Businesses don't have a couple years to wait. At that, we're talking a couple of years until completion of CS9. That does not mean the day its done the pendulum will swing wildly overnight. At least another few years before we know the impact. |