Really Anne, you think that a 19% response, which was massively negative to the proposal, gave the council a mandate to close our roads? The consultation was only ever a sop – the results were never going to be taken into account as the decision had already been made to implement the road closures. And regarding residents parking, like Jai, I remember being contacted 4 or 5 times before the proposal was finally accepted – clearly they were going to keep going until they got the result they wanted. I remember going to a presentation at Brentford Free Church and being told that the cost, which was around 40-50 pounds a year, would not go up. The obvious intention was to get everyone to sign up to the proposal so the council could than ramp up the changes each year as a massive cash generator. Guy’s claim that “the fees cover the costs” is blatantly untrue – it clearly does not cost hundreds of pounds per car to administer – or perhaps he can publish the costs to prove I am wrong? Interestingly, when I asked our ever-loyal councillor whether our street could be canvassed on additional parking controls on Brentford FC match days, he said I would have to do this myself – obviously nothing in it for the council, so why would they bother to help? A question that’s been asked many times on this forum is why some of the profit generated by this change, which can be used for road safety measures, cannot by used to reinstate the school crossing patrols that were ditched a few years ago? There used to be patrols on Ealing Road and Windmill Road – both of these are now considerably busier and more dangerous because of additional traffic caused by the LTNs – is our children’s safety not important to this council?
Marcia King ● 4d