| Topic: | Re:Re:Proposed closure Swyncombe Av. except for residents | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 21/11/20 08:58:00 |
| This is exactly what happens. One ill conceived policy leads to a ripple factor and stuffs up an entire district and takes with it peoples livelihoods, ability to attend to isolated relatives and elders and all normal life, in the naive belief that all this can be done on foot or by bike. That's fine if you have nothing better to do and have the time to poodle about on a bike or wander about leaving all the heavy stuff and chores to someone else. This is insane and already people who work on call ( and I am one of them) are becoming less and less able to respond and am losing work and income. It has taken up to an hour to get out of Ealing of late and that is with less traffic than in the last year or so. But it's the extent of road works in South Ealing and other locations that is the real problem in Swyncombe Ave. It's far enough away to suit the surveys to justify the LTNs, but those encapsulated streets were never really busy as local traffic diluted over dozens of streets. It's now concentrated to a few. You cannot be a rat runner if you live in the district. Another spun myth. It's impossible to gauge with South Ealing stuffed up. Even I have to use Swyncombe to get to and from Brentford and my office and I rarely ever do. The road is straight, wider than Windmill road ( which ought to have had an HGV ban decades ago) has no CPZ restrictions and virtually every dwelling has a driveway for two cars and a garage. It was built like that because it was a trunk link road and would carry more traffic right from the start. But the fact is the LTNs are like a cancer and it spreads a disease that becomes all consuming. If it ain't broke don't try to fix it. Unfortunately Authorities cannot help themselves and wreck anything they turn their attention to. Just to suit egos and half baked policies. |