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Less than a weeks notice for almost complete gridlock

So now the M4 will be closed as far as the A4 to Hogarth Roundabout. With the only notice being on this site . - Less than a week.The TfL/ Highways Authority advice?  Use the A40 or the A4.Do they not know that these roads are also currently severely restricted for ongoing works with tailbacks on the A40 to the M25 and is causing delays and gridlock in Hayes, Southall and almost impossible to get across Ealing to Brentford or Acton ?Then there are works on South Ealing Road, in Boston Manor and Hanwell.Then there is Richmond Town Centre blocked right in the middle with a 30 min detour via Sheen heading North- which diverts the bus right back into the epicentre of congestion.Plus ongoing Tube works of which the notifications have also been reduced by 4 days.The messed up weekends, the impossibility of working on call, and the waste in fuel, added pollution, stuffed up incomes, stress and damage to local trade.How on earth is this Road Management? and why such late and scant information to residents over what is a wide area.Plenty of posters all over the place about Ulez and untrue claims of clean air ( now being taken up by the ASA) But nothing about actions that are making life an absolute hell for everyone on foot in a car or on a bus.Worse than third rate.

Raymond Havelock ● 768d2 Comments

and they may well face a ban or a huge fine for misleading posters which would not be allowed if it were a private venture.TfL got done once before for misleading adverts for Bendy Buses.But are now apparently not bound by the same rules as general advertisers.One rule for them and another for the rest.  Is this not what Mayor Khan keeps saying about the Police?  Maybe he should look in the mirror first.

Raymond Havelock ● 768d

A freedom of information request revealed this week that the Mayor and TfL have spent £1.2million so far on advertising across TV, radio and social media to publicise the ULEZ expansion. Obviously not enough left in the pot to inform Londoners about road closures for works.The bottom line is that none of the ‘decision makers’ (as Khan likes to style himself) give a monkey’s about the impact their decisions have on working people. Those impacts are almost universally negative.

Simon Hayes ● 768d