| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The Albany Parade debacle | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 31/01/25 21:27:00 |
| Sadly footfall in Brentford is going to always be it's Achilles. Stop and shop parking and impulse stop and shop is near impossible with nothing in the right place and what was has gone. Bus travel is so badly delayed with huge increases in journey times that it's too risky to get off and pop in to a shop or two as no-one can really risk further delay or being really late for whatever they should be ultimately going to. 45 mins Ealing Road to Richmond Station 30 mins to South Ealing. Up to an hour from Twickenham to Kew Bridge and often as bad the other way. Hammersmith to Brentford seldom less than an hour when it was 45 mins in the worst of rush hours. None of this was happening before the lockdown but it was not good then. Brentford is now isolated by problems all around it more than in it. But barely any parking in easy distance kills small retailers and with the 'Growthmiester' unable to comprehend what she has done by kicking the growth ball 20 years down the line and taxing any quick fixes out of viability, its not looking good for even the best of retailers |