| Topic: | Re:Is deferring CS9 till after the election a bit of an avoidance? | |
| Posted by: | Guy Lambert | |
| Date/Time: | 17/01/18 12:43:00 |
| TfL ran a consultation and have received over 5000 responses. They will review those and no doubt revise the scheme. It has been shamelessly politicised by the Chiswick conservative councillors, which means we will have no sensible debate during the pre-election period. The right time to reconsider it will be after the elections when we can take a calm view of it - it won't be built for some time anyway. Going out of your way to avoid cycleways is indeed rather strange. I regularly use the one along the A4, for all its warts, and much prefer it to trying to use the road. Your characterisation of cycleways is most inaccurate. They are used by all sorts of people and CS9 through Brentford and Chiswick, if eventually built, will certainly be like that. Given the amount of crossings of road junctions I suspect the faster cyclists will use it only in selected bits anyway as the road is optimised for faster riders/drivers. Hounslow cycling provide a 'contact us' address and if you wish I can put you in touch with their chair, whom I know quite well. As far as I know they are not funded by anybody, just a collection of local cyclists and in my experience friendly people who are quite happy to discuss different ways of improving the experience for cyclists. Why on earth would they want to stand candidates? They have published a lot of thoughts on the design of CS9, including a detailed rebuttal of the more scaremongering of the conservative councillors' complaints. Oh, and any 'pushing through' will be led by tfL - their funding, their design, their scheme, no elections. I will be standing for the Labour party and will be quite clear that I am in favour of the new cycle lane (misnamed in my opinion) but I have some concerns about it - mainly related to bus stops - insofar as it affects my ward, which I have communicated both verbally and in writing to TfL. If you have 'better solutions' why not let us know what they are, rather than complaining about the solution that has been suggested? |