Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would like to support Gavin in saying that when > I have spoken to residents from the ED side of our > Ward (eg Dovedale yesterday)there has been > overwhelming support of extending the 63 > > Overwhelming support for something doesn't make it > right / sensible / suitable. We have already > learned that TfL have carried out a review which > indicated that the cost / benefit equation doesn't > deliver a positive outcome. > > There may be a "democratic" wish for the 63 to be > extended but there are democratic wishes for all > sorts of things that are deemed inappropriate, > impossible, impractical or too costly. > > Forget the political solganeering, I believe in > TfL's objective assessment, not you cynical > political stance of promising what is not going to > happen. Anyone who has followed TFL's road "improvement" programmes will realise that objective assessments have nothing to do with it - they are there to follow the Mayor's directions which result directly from short term voting pressure. See the amount of independent reviews they have commissioned and subsequently ignored including the Blackfriars Bridge and Kings Cross interchanges. Whilst you may well object, quite reasonably, to sloganeering a fatuous belief in the political independence of TFL is frankly hilarious.