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Ealing Council TFL Awdul

Courtfield GdnsLongfield Ave sited as "safety" measures = pish.Traffic measures imposed by the council & TFL actually increase congestion & pollution.I have written to TFL & basically dismissed & npw being ignored. They are incompetent fools

Peter Yale ● 3141d15 Comments

Also there are no parking restrictions along this section which means that Buses and other traffic is forced to wait causing pollution!! I do find some of the decisions over the years rather strange!! It appears to be a policy of creating jams!!

Peter Chadburn ● 3102d

In essence a lot of money will be spent on making Ealing a "Mini Holland" to encourage residents to take up cycling. RRE is part of a Quietway which allows cyclists to ride in relative safety and not be killed or seriously injured. Maybe if the infrastructure is there more residents will cycle? This is part of a wider network across London. I await in anticipation to see the throng of cyclists using this shared pathway whilst I'm stuck in traffic, in a warm cosy car, late for work, inhaling the diesel bus exhaust fumes on a dreary winters morning when it's -2c outside...

Kris Smith ● 3103d

RR East seems madness. What is the rationale?

Graham Weeks ● 3103d

Whoever thought that reducing the road capacity on Ruislip Road East is a good thing needs their head examining. I found a report by Ealing Council about this scheme, The salient points suggest that vehicle ownership in the borough is dropping (which makes sense due to the sheer amount of flats being built with no additional parking) - however no mention is made in this report of non residents driving into Ealing to work/shop/visit. I am a cyclist and a driver, I fail to see the point of this shared used footpath which will be the cause of congestion, pollution, longer bus journeys and increased mental stress. (slow clap for the decision maker who instead of improving residents lives will make it less pleasurable to live in Ealing) Rant over.

Kris Smith ● 3103d

Acton is in Ealing Borough. Acton though, is a Town in it's own right. As is Southall. Also in Ealing Borough.Just like Hounslow, the Borough has become too big and too unwieldy to manage properly.Some services work fine for a big area but many council services are governed by a one size fits all policy which ultimately, does not work properly resulting in poor overall services.Worst of all is this cabinet and blanket council system. Open to manipulation and corruption especially with contracts and developers and way too secret and undemocratic.It also gives too much creedence to officers who dance to the tune of cabinet members.End result? Poor planning decisions. Poor policy decisions and poor execution of decisions.It suits the bullies and career politicians but degrades the councillors who are sidelined making 3 councillors per ward pretty much pointless.It's easy to blame government cuts and they are little better as they are all too often, equally incompetent and myopic.But Arthur is right. Local decisions ought to be made by local ward councillors and in this age of supposed transparency, opens and true democracy, put to the  public. only.It should not be decided by those from other areas, and these ideas which have consequences for locals should be better presented and not packed with engineered statistics and half truths. Something we get far too much of in this age of unverified internet supposition crafted by who knows?It should be the same for planning. Another poster suggested planning committees ought to consist only of councillors for the districts concerned, presided over by a councillor from a non local ward but not allowed to vote.Planning officers need to be questioned far more diligently and answers need to be far more open and not avoided by quoting policies and plans that councillors are clearly not au fait with.They are not held to account and it is rather telling when so many leave their employ and surface working for developers or their associates or to authorities where the same developers are encroaching in.Big changes are needed, but alas there are too many greedy fingers in the pie.

Mark Kehoe ● 3107d

Acton is in Ealing...

Paul James ● 3108d

PeterI too fully support Arthur in this proposal.It's the Officers that need to be held to account, and Councillors (all colours) just fail to do this properly.

Mark Walker ● 3108d

The problem is that so many of Ealing's Councillors DON'T ACTUALLY LIVE IN EALING!They live in Acton or elsewhere.They don't have to suffer the consequences of their decisions.

Mark Walker ● 3108d

Sometimes you wonder whether it is't a deliberate ploy to make it worse so that another preferred scheme can be implemented to make it better.

Philippa Bond ● 3109d

All I can say is that by driving every day as I do, the schemes put in place by TFL/Councils are moronic & cause congestion along with pollution.TFL are ignorant, wont deal with problems & smarmy sods on overpaid salaries.TFL/COUNCILS CAUSE CONGESTION

Peter Yale ● 3125d

TfL may pay for these schemes, however it is the council that contract out . firms to design them. As long as the scheme follows guidelines from TfL then the bidding from the council to get the money to implement the schemes, is accepted. This is especially so for those dealing with the so called "corridor schemes" on main and strategic roads. Once the scheme is accepted the council then pays the companies contracted out for that particular scheme.I don't believe that the Longfield road changes have been down to TfL but more probably from the council itself.

Rosa Popham ● 3126d

Indeed I would, the list is quite long.TFL are rude arrogant & live in cuckoo land

Peter Yale ● 3134d

You may like to add Ruislip Road East to the list of follies.

Graham Weeks ● 3137d

Exactly Arthur. Even basics like parking, the marked bays on say Argyle Rd W13 are dangerous. Its "permissable" to park yet narrows the road on a bend. Waldeck Rd, when you turn from St Leonards you can meet cars head on.I could list numerous TFL Ealing Council farcical road changes, I WONT say improvements. Acton Horn Lane, bus stop locations.Some merely stupid causing congestion & pollution to raise revenue, some dangerous

Peter Yale ● 3137d

Peter,What these young men and women fail to realise is that some of us have enormous experience on the roads. I cycled through the centre of Bristol at 14. I used motorcycles for almost 10 years. I have driven commercially for at least 20.I have held a clean licence for over 52 years. On the other hand they may have some ideas but can't defend them. On that basis they are not BRIGHT ideas.We now need to bring back Area Committees at which officers had to explain proposals to councillors and the public. Using all sorts of techniques officer proposals could be dropped or modified.It is a very dangerous thing that incompetent officers are so powerful and are never challenged.

Arthur Breens ● 3140d