| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:No cyclists on this cycle lane | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 06/02/25 12:39:00 |
| Back to the history books for you Dominik if you don’t understand what roads are for! The road network (and that is the key word) is designed to move people and things around, for a wide variety of reasons. They aren’t used ‘perpetually’. Most in Ealing barely have a vehicle on them after midnight, especially those ‘quiet residential streets’. We live in a large city where quite often the things we need to go to aren’t nearby , and the 15 minute city fallacy won’t solve that. The traditional method most in Ealing use to travel to work in central London is the Tube. I doubt many drive there unless they are tradespeople or delivery drivers. It’s more efficient than a cycle lane, requires nothing from the user in terms of owning anything other than a travel card and is generally more comfortable than cycling. It might surprise you to be told that a lot of dislike cycling because it’s not very comfortable. If you want empty roads you better start thinking of ways to get people and goods around without using motor vehicles of any description, and bikes are not the answer however much you claim thet are. Otherwise make the roads flow better (which does reduce congestion and pollution). Unless of course you subscribe to the Robot Rachel Reeves idea of economic growth! Oh, and roads are paid for through general taxation. If you want to close them to most people perhaps a reduction in taxes is in order. |