| This week I attended a GP appointment near Ealing Common and a visit to Ealing Hospital. Both were accessed using the excellent and numerous bus routes along the Uxbridge Road but these trips were severely hampered by "Road Works". Clearly a misnoma. I couldn't see anyone working! Who can sort this out? I know humans can be fallable but to plonk self-controlled temporary traffic lights just east of the Lido junction and then walk away while the traffic backs up is not right. More abusive is the fact that there are just about and only just about 4 lanes in this section of the Uxbridge Road. Surely you can close 2 lanes and leave room for traffic in both directions in the two remaining lanes. The cost of these "traffic queues" is easily computed as costs to the economy. Over a week it must run into hundreds of thousands. Frustrated drivers are not safe drivers and the cyclists I saw got through on the pavements. Grannies beware. Readers tell me please, "Who is in charge?" |