gsirett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > " Any claim about local business supporting the > anti-CPZ campaign is both true AND absolutely > worthless/meaningless. I remember about 10 years > ago most of the same traders were against bus > lanes. Claims of Lordship Lane apocalypse were > rife. The bus lanes happened. The businesses > prospered." > > Actually the local traders "whinged" about a > permanant LL bus/red route. Nobody listened to > them, what harm could it possibly do? A while > later, with evidence of dramatically falling > sales, a local councillor helped them get the > decision reversed ( a local lib > > EVerybody thought they were just a load of > whinging businesses, But their fears were proved > right. > Many of th businesses that we all love run on very > tight margins. Nobody has problems parking at > sainsburys or bluewater And the Local Lab Councillors!