OK, it's probably a handful of idiots who are ignoring the "NO FUEL" signs at the petrol station, but LOL. There's normallly pretty much no traffic here on a Sunday morning.
Easy to gloat of course, but when a mono-culture of transport has been pushed for decades at national (and in Havering's case, local) level, this is what happens when there is a disruption. In the videos we've buses, an ambulance and a food delivery truck stuck. Still, at least
in my neck of the woods, the majority voted for Brexit, and they voted for Tories in government and running the local council. Suck it up.
Mind you, have don't have much faith in any of the other parties nationally or locally. Especially locally there's a few councillors who are genuinely far right.
Well the first petrol station had no queues, but then again it had no petrol. Sainsbury's nowhere as bad as yesterday, but it was only 06:30 when I when I went by.
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Virtually at the 2021 @CIHTUK virtual #SoRSA conference this afterno. Looking forward to dusting off my road safety hat.
*Society of Road Safety Auditors - SoRSA, a specialist branch of CIHT.
TIL horses don't like changes in surface colour. It spooks them. Interesting video here
Interesting session on Stage 1 Road Safety Audits with this hypothetical scheme of a roundabout being plopped on an existing road to create a development access. Great choice as these are being built *badly* everywhere. From a walking and cycling point of view, we keep asking
OK then Worcester folks. I put in a FOI for the cycling ban in the town. They *didn't* undertake an Equality Impact Assessment (although they are not a legal requirement in England because the ConDems stopped them being so). My question and answer;
The actual decision background paper states the following. So if no EqIA was undertaken, then there should presumably be something written down which deals with the proposal being screened. I need to read everything and see if a further FOI is required.
The ban includes pedal cycles (number of wheels unlimited) which probably means handcycles are OK - @CrippledCyclist knows more.
Ok then, opponents to LTNs. How will you reduce traffic on main roads. References to data or reports would be useful. What sort of capital costs are involved And what might a programme look like?
OK, a few ideas. I think we have to start at the policy level. 1) Widespread controlled parking zones to create a future management framework. 2) Limiting the number of permits residents can obtain. My own borough lets you have as many as you like so demand outstrips kerbside
3) Emissions-based pricing of residents' permits to speed up adoption of cleaner vehicles. This may be the straw which leads people to give up cars rather than renew. 4) Size-based limits on residents' vehicles. 5) Charging for destination parking - this goes hand in hand with
That Ealing LTN discussion yesterday which showed an increase of 52% of trip length comparing the before & after driven journey lengths between each cell and a series of boundary road destinations. Notwithstanding the fact that it's a simplistic analysis, it's been bugging me 1/
I've run the numbers with another assumption that once someone has driven to the destination point (which are all short journeys) they may well actually be driving further and therefore, the percentage increase between the no LTN state and the post LTN state must reduce with 2/
the overall distance traveled. I think I am applying the same logic, so feel free to call me out on my mathematics at the end of this thread. 3/
The study looked at dozens of sites across several countries. More recently, the Waltham Forest experience has reduced traffic overall, more people are walking and cycling plus modeled
air quality assessments are showing improvements even on the main roads.
The problem we have here is the approach of the last 20+ years (if we're talking about the period since the study) has been to do very little to change the status quo. We have tried and failed to
"smooth" traffic flow by playing with traffic signals and we have spent a lot of money on traffic calming which has to a great extent been a failure. LTNs do produce good outcomes, even at a city-wide level (look at Ghent and Olso). The counter to complaints about the lack of
That's an hour of my life I won't get back. My former employer wants impose parking controls in my street. They advertised/ consulted on a proposal, apparently got it wrong so rather than starting again, they have switched to a different part of the legislation which in my
opinion would be unlawful for the purpose that they have stated (hopefully I'm right). I think the issue is, there was outcry at the first idea and rather than taking their time, staff have bowed to political pressure for speed while not understanding the law. Of course, had I
still been working there, then they could have asked me about the law ;)
Just for shits and giggles I've bunged in a Freedom of Information request to look at the governance behind the behaviour and a corporate complaint about the behaviour.