Southwark's (lack of) Consultation process: eg CPZ; Speed limits; Restricted parking; Cycling etc

[spider69]

Well that's probably secured a grant for the next few years to keep them happy.

Beats doing a proper job

[Northeastview]

They should study what it's done to my stress levels! It used to irritate me that busses going up and down Dog Kennel Hill went to fast when it was 30, but now it's supposed to be 20 my blood boils! And other drivers dodging around me or hurling abuse when I'm trying to follow the speed limit can't be healthy either.

[ed_pete]

Interesting sentence in the conclusion:

A key challenge in implementing traffic calming schemes to

improve population health is to think about affecting cultural change in terms of public attitudes towards

roads and speed as without changes in the mentality of both drivers and residents, the success of such

schemes may be limited or even have counterintuitive effects.

[wulfhound]

"There's no evidence! How dare they do this without evidence!"

(academic walks in to the room with a small mountain of peer-reviewed evidence.)

"The evidence is wrong! And anyway, academics are a bunch of freeloading hippies who don't live in the Real World!"

(sigh.)

[richard tudor]

That sums it up