| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Was it any better before? | |
| Posted by: | Paul Campbell | |
| Date/Time: | 24/11/23 07:17:00 |
| The facts are that LTNs in general reduce total car journeys and pollution, make the streets safer for walking and cycling and vastly improve the lives of everybody living inside them and most living near them. Grove Park is a shining example of this. The Staveley Rd barrier has created a street that is just great for walking and cycling.you see it every day. What legacy have you left Chiswick after all your years as a Councillor. I’m glad you acknowledge that no car is prevented from entering the Grove Park area. Ludicrously short car journeys like Esmond Rd to the High Road do serve to highlight how unsympathetic the objectors to schemes long made permanent are. What makes you think the wheels are coming off the bandwagon? Our LTNs are permanent. The cycle lane is a great success and being extended through Brentford. More LTNs are being introduced and made permanent across London as their benefits become more apparent with time. Ealing is coming to the party again soon. The Hounslow Conservatives have proposed a motion to the Council asking them to use taxpayer money to subsidise cargo bikes for businesses, to reallocate car parking spaces to cargo bike parking and to plan for future cycle lanes to accommodate them. There are people who don’t get it but they are those like you clinging to an outdated notion of the unchallenged supremacy of the car in London. And they will suffer many more defeats before they wake up. |