| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:CHISWICK ..OPEN UP ALL OUR ROADS HOUNSLOW COUNCIL | |
| Posted by: | Colin Potter | |
| Date/Time: | 20/09/21 16:03:00 |
| Most of my mileage around London has been in vans and lorries, the bigger the lorry, the more of London is restricted. Generally it was because of the physical limitations of the roads, rather than they don’t want you to drive that way that the roads were restricted. In recent decades there have been more and more width restrictions and overnight bans to force lorries away from residential areas, unless you include businesses closing or moving because of the road changes, they have never created traffic evaporation, just longer journeys. Car drivers are now experiencing what lorry drivers have had to deal with for decades, partly because of the increase in small vans doing deliveries forcing the need to adapt the road network again. I notice that you picked two of the five restrictions that I thought were primarily to reduce traffic on those roads. There are more than a few that benefit from lower traffic, but that wasn’t the primary reason for the changes. With the exception of Paxton Road and Chiswick Road all of the one ways could be turned the other way without increasing or decreasing the traffic, which is a clue that they help not hinder drivers. The view on all the closures along the A4, depends on whether you live in Chiswick or just drive through Chiswick on the A4. If you live near the A4 clearly if your closest access point is closed it is a disadvantage, but I’d say that even the most recent closure at Harvard Hill is an advantage to drivers. I don’t know how you would do it, but I would guess that if you added up all the time lost diverting to Sutton Court Road and all the time gained on the A4 as it doesn’t slow down for cars trying to join, the total amount of time people are in their cars is going to be less. So us locals lose out, but everyone that drives through gains. |