| Topic: | To Councillor Plil Taylor: re South Ealing Road improvements | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 04/03/11 08:14:00 |
| Councillor Taylor, you told us: "It is worth remembering that this scheme is funded by TfL so if we strip out all of the road safety aspects they will not fund it. But, if we don’t want it we don’t have to have it". I have put this to the Council's Assistant Director of Strategic Transport, Nick O'Donnell, who is responsible for this scheme, and he advises: "To clarify on Councillor Taylor's comments, it is up to the Borough how we spend our allocation of money. If we wish a corridor to include road safety measures or not has no bearing on the funding. I trust this clarifies that point". So one of you is talking rubbish and misinforming us. Which one is it? - you or him? - does this scheme really depend on yet-to-be-secured funding from TfL, dependent on demonstrable accident and casualty eduction justification, as you forcefully claim, or has all the funding necessary already been secured and allocated, as Mr O'Donnell equally forcefully claims? Whichver, you can take it from me that this scheme as currently proposed has NO meaningful correlation with the actual accident record on thus corridor - which is remarkably good - having analysed in detail the three years' injury accident records on which the Council claims the scheme to be based, and checked the results against the actual scheme proposed, and there is NO accident-based justification for any of the works proposed. |