| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Paramedics couldn’t get to patient because of covid-bollards | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 04/09/20 09:18:00 |
| I do hope that Hounslow learn from the Ealing Debacle and avoid the same utter waste of taxpayers money. There is nothing to be gained from implementing things is very quiet neighbourhoods. Apart from damaging local movements. No-one knows the circumstances of those movements. Ealing claim that 15% of traffic will vanish for good. In Northfields that will be over a day probably less than 20. Deliveries though will increase and the obstructions will add time and therefore require duplicate deliveries to keep to schedules so those 20 will be cancelled out and replaced by larger engined vehicles What they have implemented in Northfields has only damaged and divided a whole community, severing links to doctors surgeries and a host of other amenities that are thin on the ground for a wide area as it is. And for a great many not within walking or cycling distances. It achieves nothing especially when based on very dubious surveys carried out by funded organisations with clear agendas and ostracising actual residents en masse. Quite why they did not implement this in the area surveyed or in the several parts of that borough that have dire problems in residential streets is mystifying - until you note where cabinet members wards are. Clearly other seats are expendable. So it all comes down to playing politics but possible affecting peoples lives which is why no consultation is so reckless. There is no definition of Rat Running so the assumption is the second you turn out of the street you live in you are a rat runner. No acknowledgment of the difference between distributor and feed streets which was the standard method since the early 20th century. Often identified by the size of the street lights - now muddied up a bit with PFI schemes. Risking lives and livelihoods is not something the council should have any involvement in. Maintaining pavements, street surfaces and cleansing to ensure roads remains safe to use for all should be the priority. I'm completely bemused as a cyclist at how dangerous these LTNs have made cycling in what is a very quiet district. |