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^ nailed it
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Whenever the benefits of the scheme are shown in photographic form it's always white, middle-class people eating at cafes on Orford road, so I guess your confidence is correct.
Hopefully, that's only the thin end of the wedge. Too many cafés are certainly a symptom of an unbalanced local economy. It's not supposed to turn into a middle-class leisure park.
It is certainly true that in the past modal filtering has mainly been done in fairly affluent areas. We've been aware of that for a long time and have always argued that it should be adopted everywhere. One scheme in Hackney in a not-very-rich-yet area is fairly advanced (although I realise that Hackney's ridiculous price increases are pushing local people out, this area has a lot of housing association and Council housing that hopefully won't be destroyed by the Government's ridiculous policy of flogging off HA properties).
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To be fair to MH's marketing they have used pictures of people who look like they live in our corner of NE London.
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Whenever the benefits of the scheme are shown in photographic form it's always white, middle-class people eating at cafes on Orford road, so I guess your confidence is correct.