| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Devonshire Road Speed Limit | |
| Posted by: | Ed Saper | |
| Date/Time: | 27/07/21 15:27:00 |
| I'll agree with one thing you said - boycotting is not the right thing to do - most of the businesses are just caught in the middle of a dispute and are trying to make a living for themselves and their families. But I'll disagree with almost everything else! The main failure of the survey was not asking the businesses about the existing access restrictions. You told me on this forum that the current arrangements could not continue for "various reasons". Even if it wasn't feasible to keep the current arrangements (and it probably was), you can still ask stakeholders what they think of them. Instead, you offered one option to reverse the changes completely and another 5 options of further pedestrianisation. That's 1:5 - and when you presented the results the pro pedestrianisation group were not grouped together, but split over multiple options which allowed you to misrepresent it as a strong majority in favour of reversing all the changes when it probably showed the opposite. Not just that - it created real confusion about what people were "voting" for - many assumed the pedestrianisation was what we had right now. Can I ask who Charlotte Daly is? Her name is on the report as the author, she's a freelance market research consultant and a member of One Chiswick who is vocally anti-LTNs on social media. Is Charlotte the independent market research professional who you say independently analysed the data and made the survey "compliant" with the Market Research Society guidelines? Don't you think there's an issue with a survey designed and hand delivered by someone who is strongly against the Streetspace experiments and the data is then analysed and published by someone who is a member of a group set up for the sole purpose of lobbying against the same? |