South St. & Upper Square Cycle proposals
People in Isleworth received notice yesterday of the decision to proceed with the work for the above scheme. The sentence below says it all, again, an officer has made the decision not only to proceed but to ignore objections. The report was 'shared with councillors and the Lead Member for Transport', none of whom live in Isleworth, work to start 28 June.'A decision on the objections to the Traffic Order was taken by Chief Officer Decision at the end of March. The decision was to set aside the objections, and proceed with the scheme. It can be viewed here - https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=622&MId=11691.'Many of us feel this scheme will be an unmitigated disaster just waiting to happen, in particular the part outside The Isleworth Public Hall, where the pavement will be shared between pedestrians and cycles. This also necessitates moving the bus stop along South St. for a 'half stop' and will likely have the effect of causing traffic hold-ups at busy times, just what we need.Parents collecting/dropping off their offspring from a local primary school wait outside the Public Hall, and there are quite a few local groups who use it for meetings, and whose elderly members use the benches outside whilst waiting for their bus home.It doesn't require a genius to see the possible conflict this will bring between the two groups, but then what do we know?Still, never mind, the interests of people on bikes override absolutely everything these days, and our elected members are so supine, they abdicate their responsibility to represent us in favour of letting paid employees make decisions which they should make, but hey! Never mind the officers 'share' their decisions with thewm - so that's alright then.
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