| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Was it any better before? | |
| Posted by: | Sam Hearn | |
| Date/Time: | 24/11/23 11:25:00 |
| 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. PAUL - THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE AND YOU KNOW THAT IT IS NOT TRUE. LTNSs SIMPLY MOVES THE AIR POLLUTION AROUND FROM ONE STREET TO A NEIGHBOURING STREET. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT WHERE LTNs HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED THAT THESE STREETS WERE NOT ALREADY SAFE TO WALK AND CYCLE. THERE WAS NO RISK ANALYSIS DONE. BY DIVERTING TRAFFIC ON TO OTHER STREETS YOU HAVE BY YOUR ARGUMENT MADE THEM LESS SAFE. BRILLIANT - PURE GENIUS! 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. PAUL ANOTHER OUTRAGEOUS UNSUPPORTED CLAIM. STAVELEY ROAD WITH ITS WIDE VERGES AND PAVEMENTS WAS ALREADY A STREET THAT WAS GREAT FOR WALKING AND CYCLING. THERE HAS BEEN NO INCREASE IN CYCLING TO CHISWICK SCHOOL (ACCORDING TO THE SCHOOL). YOU ASK WHAT MY LEGACY AS A COUNCILLOR IS. I WOULD BE HAPPTY TO DISCUSS THIS WITH YOU OVER A PINT. WHAT READERS OF THIS BLOG WILL SEE IS THAT YOU HAVE LOST THE ARGUMENT AND HAVE DECIDED TO "ATTACK THE MAN AND NOT THE BALL". THIS IS A TECHNIQUE THAT YOU HAVE RESORTED TO ON MANY OCCASIONS AND I AM CALLING YOU OUT. I’m glad you acknowledge that no car is prevented from entering the Grove Park area. WHAT COLOUR ARE THE CLOUDS ON YOUR PLANET? I DID NOT SAY THAT. WHAT I DID SAY IS THE STAVELEY ROAD BARRIER (IT IS JUST NEWSPEAK TO CALL IT A FILTER) PERFORMS NO USEFUL FUNCTION IN KEEPING VEHICLES OUT OF THE 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. YOU REALLY DO NOT GET IT PAUL. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SHORT CAR JOURNEYS AND THAT MAKES YOU FEEL WARM AND COMFORTABLE THEN FINE. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE NORMAL DAY TO DAY CAR JOURNEYS THAT PEOPLE MAKE THAT HAVE BECOME MORE INCONVENIENT AND LONGER BECAUSE OF THE MEASURES THAT YOU SUPPORT. 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. NOTHING IN LIFE IS PERMANENT PAUL. I HAVE NOT CLUNG TO THE OUTDATED NOTION OF THE UNCHALLENGED SUPREMACY OF THE CAR. MY RECORD ON THIS AS AN ELECTED REPRSENTATIVE IS QUITE CLEAR. WHAT I AM IS A DEMOCRAT WHICH YOU QUITE CLEARLY ARE NOT. WHEN THE VASTE MAJORITY OF THOSE RESPONDING TO COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON THE CYCLEWAY/LTN SCHEMES REJECT THEM YOU STILL PLOUGH ON REGARDLESS. IF YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY THEN WE ARE IN FOR A GRIM TIME AS THE WISHES OF THE MAJORITY ARE IGNORED AND INDEED TRAMPLED UPON. |