| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Time to reconsider the west london tram scheme | |
| Posted by: | David Bradley | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/10 22:05:00 |
| Dialing codes may well have included the route that the tramway was to be built along but a subscriber to the "selected" local area codes could equally be as much as 4 miles away from the nearest proposed tram stop. Hardly a walking distance for the majority. I have maps of exchange code coverage to substantiate my assertion. Now think about this for a moment. People questioned would have understood 'tram' to be like Croydon and bus like most London buses. Most would have had little idea of what a trolleybus really was. As TfL deliberately misled people into thinking that WLT as a tram would be 'like Croydon Tramlink' (i.e. speedy and reliable), then response given would initially support the concept of the WLT scheme. For the moment a tick for the tram. Your background in market research and knowledge of the MORI polling organisation in that consultation process is as much suspect as the polling that was carried at the time. We have a copy of the questions that were asked and are quite prepared to go through with you on a line by line basis to provide other examples of a biased poll. Politically the Labour party supported WLT, the other parties didn't. Many factors come into play when a resident is in the polling booth and it perhaps difficult to associate Labour's defeat with their stance on WLT but it was without doubt a contribution to their failure not to win that particular seat. As much as you make generalisations in your responses in this forum, then other contributors are entitled to the same. |