| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Connollys bus gate | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/21 12:20:00 |
| The point was simple but you appear to have missed it - this is not about drivers vs residents. A slightly longer journey will be an annoyance for some but a significant amount of traffic displaced onto the road where you live could have a potentially life-changing impact. The 'historic LTNs' as you insist on calling them or road closures as they will be known to the rest of us were presumably introduced by local authorities following lobbying by local residents, consulted upon, had their impact properly considered and modelled and it was ultimately decided that the benefits they brought outweighed the harms. Fishers Lane does not really follow this pattern. There was no significant demand from residents for it as far as I am aware, the number of residents who might be said to benefit from it are far outweighed by the ones having more traffic diverted past their homes and the queues back from Acton Lane clearly are creating more harm to the local environment than any benefits which appear at this stage to be a largely fictitious cycle route from Acton to Chiswick. (As someone who regularly cycles between the two areas benefit of the access restrictions in the underpass is more than outweighed by the harm of having to deal with static traffic on Acton Lane and South Parade more often than before). My idea for a technology solution is that council's share data with SatNav providers and in return have the ability to redesignate the designation of individual roads in realtime so the algorithm will divert traffic away from residential roads that seeing too much rat-running. |