| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Give us back our roads Ruth Cadbury | |
| Posted by: | Bernard Allen | |
| Date/Time: | 23/09/20 17:44:00 |
| From front page of the Chiswick site Councillor Hanif Khan, Cabinet Member for Transport at Hounslow Council said, “It is not acceptable for a small number of people to prevent the Council from starting this trial simply because they don’t like the idea of it. This group does not represent the whole community. We know that many residents in the area are fully supportive of the trial taking place and want to experience it in situ so that they can feed back and be part of the decision-making process on whether or not it becomes permanent. In addition, their actions so far have wasted resource and public money by preventing our team from doing their job. “The scheme has been brought forward as part of our Streetspace programme, in line with emergency statutory guidance issued to us by the Government in May, to reduce through traffic and create safer spaces for walking and cycling. We have successfully implemented a large number of projects across the borough in line with this guidance and it is only at this location that works to implement a trial arrangement are being interrupted by the actions of a minority of residents. “We strongly encourage those engaged in these illegal activities to step back, follow the law, consider the views of the wider community and give their valued opinion through the consultation process that will run alongside the trial. It is only by trialling different approaches that we can understand what works and what doesn’t. We will not be deterred from implementing this experimental scheme as a means of finding the most appropriate way of dealing with the issue of excessive levels of traffic on Staveley Road.” Sorry Councilors the protest at the junction Of Park Road and Staveley Road is not illegal, the Met Police even agree it’s not illegal. |