| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Write in support | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 07/07/23 08:26:00 |
| A survey done in Berlin may be useful in a local context but you can't use it as a basis for a claim that all traders across the world including those in Chiswick consistently overestimate the importance of customers who come by car. Like most of the other surveys that have come to this conclusion, it has to be questioned whether the result was predetermined. One of the authors works for Active Travel Melbourne and his job is literally to promote active travel. The available research seems largely to have been commissioned when a council wants to develop a car park site or put up charges. I'd therefore be disinclined to prejudge what the impact on reducing car parking space is likely to be and give more credence to what local business people say. You have quoted bus data before but sadly it remains inaccessible to the layman so it is hard to verify your claims. What we do know is that there have been factors at play in traffic patterns locally far more impactful than C9 so trying to make a case about its effect in isolation is difficult. What I can say for sure that observing static traffic in the centre of Chiswick was a relative rare event prior to 2020 and usually indicated a specific problem such as an accident on the A4. Now it endemic. While your figures on bus travel times require further explanation they don't negate what is a very evident observable increase of congestion on the High Road. |