| Topic: | Re:Re:Bishopsgate Supreme Court ruling | |
| Posted by: | Paul Campbell | |
| Date/Time: | 30/06/22 10:08:00 |
| "the legal challenge made by One Chiswick did result in Hounslow Council making significant changes to Cycleway 9 to make it compliant with equalities legislation." Yes this is true. They are going to remove parking spaces from side roads on the next section to be upgraded between Chiswick Lane and Heathfield Terrace and replace them with taxi ranks to ensure that disabled people can get taxis to and from shops and restaurants now that kerb access is not available to taxis on the length of the cycle lane. An outcome universally supported by the members of OneChiswick, the Chiswick High Road Taskforce, local businesses and local residents I am sure. Bravo. The cabbies have to pay £730k in court costs in 14 days for the Bishopsgate case. OneChiswick's supporters got off very lightly as it turns out and the organisers should be applauded for quitting when they had only spent £50k cutting what would undoubtedly otherwise have turned out to be very substantial losses. Everybody I have seen arguing for the reopening of Fishers Lane has been opposed to the cycle lane and every other traffic management scheme proposed and implemented in the area so if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ....... another giveaway of a Onesie is their refusal to ever accept that they have lost and that the measures that have been made permanent are never going to be removed because they still believe the authorities will prioritise traffic flow over safer streets. Expert straw clutchers. I wonder what will cause the next Onesie tantrum? Probably the opening of the latest section of the cycle lane on 8th July and the realisation of the implications of the construction and light phasing for cyclists on the Hammersmith Gyratory. I look forward to the next bout of pearl clutching and claims of intolerable distress. |