| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Rivercourt Road restrictions | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 22/01/25 09:34:00 |
| Michael, disappointed to see you resort to Paul Campbell style name calling but the badly suppressed rage in your post, as ever gives me encouragement that we are getting close to the truth of what is going on. When people present you with statistical evidence which contradicts your narrative, you quibble that it is based on estimates or on some minor error in calculation which doesn't undermine the broader situation that it is showing. When people tell you what they see you counter that this doesn't qualify as evidence because they are suffering from some sort of mental impairment. This way you hope to prevent any challenge to preconceived views that you desperately want to be true. Unfortunately for you people will look at measures the authorities take and express a critical view if they feel it is justified. Cards on the table, I have only gone past the Rivercourt junction four times since the new measures took effect. Once on a bus, three time on a bike. Each time the interactions between road users looked problematic. Twice a vehicle emerging from Rivercourt lay across the cycleway causing me to either slow or stop. On two other occasions there was confusion between vehicles want to go opposite ways on Rivercourt. I am not saying that H&F Council should immediately scrap the trial however, it is becoming evident very quickly that two way operation on Rivercourt Road is not functioning as it should and, in particular is making life less rather than more safe for cyclists. I'm perplexed why you should be set against considering this as a problem with the same passionate intensity with which you defended the widening of the A4. In both cases you seemed to have taken a position which contradicted your principles. However, by now people who interact with you on this forum know, once you have stated your view, you will never change it, no matter what evidence is presented to you. |