| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Connollys bus gate | |
| Posted by: | Paul Campbell | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/21 11:22:00 |
| I disagree with your comments about the cycle way link and also the definition being arcane. But let's see what Ealing decides. Actually the question of whose right will be prioritised is not a notion or a false dichotomy made up by me. It is fundamental to the decision-making of the politicians and how they weigh up the responses they get in consultations. This is precisely how the decision was arrived at for Stile Hall and Wellesley for example. If Hounslow weighed all interests equally those closures would not have happened as drivers who want to use the roads outnumber the residents. Ealing and Hounslow have both decided that their moral priority is to residents who want quiet and safe streets rather than to the drivers who want free access to drive through them. They believe that this has positive consequences for climate and active travel as well. But they are taking a balanced view and not just pivoting entirely one way. Other boroughs such as Wandsworth have taken the opposite view and prioritised the drivers. There are streets where residents have a consensus that they want it closed to through-traffic but their Council refuses to countenance that. Some of our local Conservative Councillors also make that same moral choice and it is very clear that they believe it to be the right one. I have my views on which of these I consider to be right but it is a genuine choice that politicians are making when determining national and local transport policies. Given your concerns about the policy of diverting traffic from residential roads to distributor roads would you advocate for the removal of all of the historic LTNs in Chiswick that do precisely this? Which one should we start with to test the notion that I have invented a false dichotomy? What is your idea for a technology solution to all of this? We've had one suggestion to nationalise the Sat Nav technology sector and create a state-owned monopoly that drivers would be forced to use which I don't think is realistic personally. |