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I've got to the point where I don't believe any of the reports or statistics around these schemes. I live in one and it's divided opinion in the community. Although I benefit from it there are a lot of local people and businesses overreaching to blame it's existence for all kinds of things.
Bus travel times, women having to walk alone at night, lower customer footfall and emergency vehicle access seem to be the most popular issues to raise and certainly in our area it's the local conservative mp opposing the local labour administration that gets most of these stories into the local news.
The design can affect the amount of negative publicity it gets but there's a background level of political point scoring and petrol heads who wouldn't be happy even if the designs were perfect.