| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:LTN’s - 20min Neighbourhoods — What I Learnt Last Night | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 07/12/23 09:39:00 |
| One wonders where or how data that was never collated or even taken can make claims about data that again is now collated to order and to specifications that remain 'classified for commercial reasons'. So it takes several FoI applications to glean any actual clear facts and this can take an age. Purely to delay and stall and stifle any kind of reasoning. So Ealing Broadway. How can it be worse? Fewer buses than in 1989. Most are Hybrid, Many are all electric. and all are Euro 5 and a love and have been for some time. Railways. Now 90% Electric from 100% Diesel in less than a decade. The Diesels that remain for freight are all highly modified. 90% of motor vehicles are 100% compliant and emit a fraction of emissions in the 1970s. Of the 10% not compliant only 2% are in daily working use. Most do very low mileages. Even if all 10% were used all day , every day it would not make any significant impact unless all concentrated in one small area. ( Which is never going to occur) There has been less motor traffic since the Travelcard zones were introduced. Even with a huge increase in population it is significantly lower than it was per 1000 people. HGVs, Vans and heavy Plant remain the only increase and two of that category are also near 100% Euro compliant. The only significant change in Ealing Broadway is the increase in Air conditioning plant, and structural infrastructure using industrial plant and the huge increase in food outlets which all emit fumes and waste which needs dealing with. Most of the problems are now used by imposed road management restrictions deliberately causing delays, idling, wasting of fuel and peoples time and damaging the economy in a myriad of ways. Delays and slowing of bus routes to the point that they are almost pointless using after 30 years of trying to speed them up to get people on them ( which worked by the way) is simply near insane. Hammersmith, Chiswick and Isleworth and soon to be Brentford are now hopelessly congested day and night. Businesses are leaving especially small ones and overdensification ( which is the true cause of bad air is continuing to be green lighted) |