Dear Mr Mustard
I saw you dropped a
comment on Twitter to Highgate Forum about the 271 proposals.
My mother lives in North
Road and is absolutely horrified by the proposed plans, as am I.
Essentially, they are
moving the 271 out of Highgate Village, a broadly commercial area, and into
North Road, a broadly residential area. That means that she will have 7 buses
parked across from her house, revving their engines at night to keep warm.
More significantly, they
plan to reduce North Rd to a single lane in each direction. This means that at
school drop off/ pick up times, whenever a house or business receives a
delivery (like the Red Lion and Sun does every Monday at 9am), or when an
ambulance has to pick someone up, the road will be impassable. Completely.
The petrol station does
not think his fuel tanker will be able to deliver and the Red Lion and Sun are
worried about the fact that a new mini roundabout will be plonked in front of
their garden with 20 odd buses per hour trying to U turn there. They anticipate
the noise and fumes will impact on their trade.
I suspect the traffic
will back up into Highgate Village and down North Road. Not so pretty.
Also, there are no cycle
paths.
Anyway, if you fancy
responding to the consultation, you can find it here
Much love
J
"consulation" is what we use to have on the old British Rail. We also had "negotiation". Some subjects were consultation, and some negotiation. Staff rosters were negotiation, organisational structures were consultation.
ReplyDeleteIt was accepted that with consultation, management were forced to listen to staff concerns, but then completely free to do what they proposed without any changes.
With Transport for London, you can bet your bottom dollar that TfL management look upon consultation as a box-ticking exercise to be undergone because the law says they must. Their minds will have been made up months ago.