Forum topic: Fox Lane low-traffic neighbourhood
Fox Lane low-traffic neighbourhood
Adrian Day
19 Sep 2020 11:40 #5565
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Adrian Day
19 Sep 2020 11:47 #5566
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Richard Carlowe
19 Sep 2020 19:43 #5567
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How lovely that the residents, who bought a house in the area knowing exactly what the traffic was like, can talk to each other in the street. What a relief for us all.
According to reports, a cyclist uses the bike lane on Green Lanes every 3 minutes on average. And that was during the height of COVID. That is, in truth, a pathetic return on the millions wasted.
Those bikes take up space on pavements that pedestrians can use (a bike takes up about the space of 4 pedestrians btw). The pavement is now not wide enough for a wheelchair where there is excess street furniture or bank queue barriers.
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Sue Hicketts
19 Sep 2020 23:43 #5569
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Adrian Day
21 Sep 2020 19:32 #5573
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David Hughes
23 Sep 2020 22:41 #5576
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Personally I'm not really knowledgeable about the territory so I'm not qualified to form a sound opinion, but - as I have written in other contexts - there are well-qualified people who think that children have the suffered most from the car age and I wouldn't want to add to that. Children generally are less able to walk/cycle to school as I did from a very early age - in my case a few days after my fifth birthday - supervised by the big girls all of six/seven years old .
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about the needs of young children than me will comment because, whatever the decision, the needs of everyone should be taken into account.
Finally, young and elderly people at the other end of life are not usually, or ever, the decision-makers. Quite a few thinkers have commented on that; we should do the best we can to meet everyone's needs.
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Elaine Hall-Freeman
24 Sep 2020 08:34 #5577
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Neil Littman
24 Sep 2020 08:51 #5578
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NB this was not sent by myself but the business owner.
Copy of email I sent to Cllr Barnes.
Dear Councillor
My family run a small local dog walking service in Enfield. We run 2 vans (was 4 before covid and we are struggling now to rebuild) and a high percentage of our customers live in and around The Lakes Estate.
Our business model is that we collect 4 dogs at a time and take them to a local park - normally Trent to exercise them.
As a company struggling to recover we are keeping careful records of time and costs. Please allow me to share some of them with you in relation to the last week. I hope you will find this useful at the consultation in October regarding your scheme.
Our van that covers the Lakes Estate area drove on average an extra 19.6 miles per day this week and took on average 55 minutes extra to serve all of its customers.
Those extra 19.6 miles took the total mileage beyond the range of our all electric van so all 483 miles this week were travelled in our older diesel van.
This is just one van operated by a very small company. I shudder to think of the costs to both businesses and the environment when you multiply this by the number of vehicles used by postal services, delivery services, online shopping vehicles and all the other vehicles that have multiple pick up/drop off locations in the affected area.
Just as an aside. While collecting dogs today I saw a council vehicle stop at the junction of Fox Lane and Old Park Road, remove the post, drive through, replace the post and then drive off. This was at about 1.45 pm today. Is it one rule for the council and one for everybody else?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
Kind regards
Just for your info - I got the same cut and paste reply that other contributors on this forum have already reported.