| Topic: | Re:Re:Fact checking Lambert’s latest ramblings | |
| Posted by: | Jeremy Parkinson | |
| Date/Time: | 16/06/23 07:49:00 |
| Don't think he is necessarily being hypocritical. There is nothing contradictory of having a love of cars but believing it would be better for us all to use them less often. Very spiteful by the way to bring his health issues into the discussion. It is the original post to this thread which perhaps needs fact checking as it attributes opinions to Cllr Lambert which, to the best of my knowledge, he has never expressed. He may wish to clarify but also he may choose not to participate in this rather toxic thread. Just because some members of the LCC have quite extreme views doesn't mean that lots of its other associates have no wider agenda than to encourage more cycling. The border between justifiable opinions and dangerous dogma seems to me to have been cross when politicians start to believe that creating inconvenience for road traffic is a feature not a bug in a transport policy. This is based on the fairly deluded view that traffic magically evaporates if you create congestion. Time and time again we see how in fact it is mainly displaced rather than disappearing. As far as I am aware from reading his weekly missives, Cllr Lambert does not subscribe to this point of view. However, Cllr Dunne does believe that causing inconvenience to motorists is a good thing. At this stage the translation of this policy into dogma has only really happened in the Chiswick area. The conviction that generated traffic is good rather than bad removes the requirement to rigorously model road schemes which could mean that lots more road closures will take place in the borough if this approach starts to be uniformly implemented. |