| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Never ending roadworks on High Street, Brentford – Anyone Else Frustrated? | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 07/11/25 12:36:00 |
| TfL are pulling the strings on much of this from a distance using and manipulating like minded councils. The delays and near impossible means to head North South and West from Brentford is ridiculous and endlessly disrupted. Bus journeys are way up on Journey times with the 65 taking 5 times longer from Richmond to Ealing and vice-versa than in 2019. That now 6 years of sly altering of timetables and surveys taken in small sections only to evade the full picture. The impact on time wasted reduces income and productivity and it is a contribution to firms of all sizes to seriously look at moving away or ceasing operations and reducing jobs. Costs inside the M25 are now so extreme that pushing more than struggling skilled staff businesses into areas of long term concern. All that Wii remain will be endless warehouses and energy guzzling Data Centres and non productive, non manufacturing companies who do not employ much in the way of high skills or long term career jobs. Brentford's developments have forced out thousands of long term jobs along with all those who worked at GSK and similar firms. the jobs still exist but now a commute away and not all on a 30 min rail link. It can take an hour to Kingston by road in a car, van or bus, and hour to Woking and almost and hour ro Perivale or Wembley at some times of the day. But here in Brentford at 11pm it can now regularly take 30 mins on a bus from Waterman's to Ealing Broadway. A journey that used to take 12 mins at that time of night. Active travel is a nonsense unless you carry no more than a laptop and have youth and fitness on your side. sooner or later something gives and that is not a pleasure but a struggle and this ideology that purveys is making matters worse. One day, these zealots will also be old and experience limitations. They need to understand that. |