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  • Good update. I should add some info about the Enfield version as the consultations for this have now started. Enfield council have been busy sending questionnaires to residents who live within its "Quieter Neighbourhoods" catchment areas to find out what people think about the area and what they say should be done to improve it.

    They've stressed that nothing is a foregone conclusion, and that (in the context of Quieter Neighbourhoods, at least) the shape of the scheme will be down to what affected residents actually want, which is encouraging and scary in about equal measures.

    They pointed residents towards this website, created by Bristol's council: http://www.trafficchoices.co.uk/ and I understand they're in the process of building their own similar site. That's designed to show residents the kind of options that are available, the costs of each option, and the advantages and the disadvantages of each.

    The consultation itself doesn't have a closing date, as far as I understand - you can respond to it at any time, even during the trials when they eventually start. There isn't a schedule in Enfield of when things are going to happen, so no clues can be taken from the consultation either.

    The council did conduct some pre-consultation polling which found that some 70% of respondents were broadly in favour of the Cycle Enfield improvements, with many comments suggesting that people in Enfield want to see a "cafe culture" and less space and consideration given over to what they perceive as excessive levels of traffic, so that's all good.

    We're still waiting on the initial results from the consultation (in fact in order to get the results from the pre-consultation the council had to be served an FOI request!), but I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it.

  • Interesting stuff @bothwell - as far as I understand it they're going to have to get a move on and spend that money. I think it needs to be spent in Walthamstow by the end of 2016.

    Good to hear 70% support, and will be fascinating to see what the good people of Enfield choose as their preferred cycle infra. Though that trafficchoices website seems to LOVE ASLs and is lukewarm about cycle lanes, whether segregated or not...

    I would also brace yourself for a howl of protest if any measure brought in seems to any way impinge on motorists.

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