| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Paul Campbell | |
| Date/Time: | 18/06/21 13:17:00 |
| I have engaged with many people in real life with lots of different opinions on transport and had sensible discussions about changes. The vast majority of people are not actually that interested, some don't want change but accept it has to happen, some have good suggestions on ways to make change work. Most people just want to understand what is happening and why. They want straightforward objective communication and are frustrated with both the Council who have been very poor comunnicators and the local Councillors who have been too partisan and entrenched in their confrontational stance on transport to pass on reliable information to them. There are only a few nerds like me who have read the detail and spent time absorbing the processes and procedures. The people you see me engage with on social media like this forum tend to be the more extreme car supremacists. As I said on another thread it a misonception that consensus is requied to drive change. These are people who will never be convinced that anything that negatively impacts cars to any degree whatsoever can possibly be acceptable. They will try to exploit any admission of weakness of a scheme to destroy everything and halt progress. And yes I freely admit that I am not polite to them and that I enjoy pointing out when they are making unsubstantiated claims or calling them out on their anti-cycling bigotry and ludicrous conspiracy theories. The worst of them like David Lesniak I just ignore entirely. Every area of London has its Lesniaks. All the Lesniaks have been engaged with directly by politicans, campaigners and transport professionals up to the point where nobody engages with them any longer because it is exhausting, pointless and unpleasant. They just get left behind. That is a fact of life in business, politics and society in general. It is where The OC is heading fast if they haven't already got there. They cause so much damage to their reputations that they exclude themselves entirely from any future debate on local matters. |