Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Why Not Just Close Lionel Road South Permanently | |
Posted by: | Graham Thorpe | |
Date/Time: | 06/07/18 11:47:00 |
People won't give up their cars as a result of the ever increasing traffic restrictions - they will just have go to elsewhere which will cause problems in those areas. People don't drive for fun - if there is traffic going over Kew Bridge heading for the A4/M4, they are doing this because they have to. The solution to high traffic levels is not to make it ever more difficult to use the roads. Has anyone considered how much extra fuel is burned, and pollution created, as a direct result of ill thought-out traffic schemes that delay or divert cars? I reckon I have to drive 2 or 3 miles out of my way every day due because of these restrictions. A good example is the interchange between the A4 and Boston Manor Road. Because it is not possible to turn right, traffic has to stop and start through several sets of traffic lights - causing a pollution blackspot that could so easily be avoided by designing a sensible interchange with a roundabout and/or an overpass that would avoid this stop/start action which generates so much more exhaust emission. |