There's also the simple fact that in a place like Poynton one shouldn't expect the sort of 'shared space' scheme that we can get in London (one coming soon at Leonard Circus in Shoreditch). It is a small place where driving is a dominant mode, and a small improvement is an improvement, even if it may seem not that progressive. Whether more could have been achieved is simply a question for local politics, about which we know hardly anything. And, of course, you're not ever going to get something that everybody likes.
There's also the simple fact that in a place like Poynton one shouldn't expect the sort of 'shared space' scheme that we can get in London (one coming soon at Leonard Circus in Shoreditch). It is a small place where driving is a dominant mode, and a small improvement is an improvement, even if it may seem not that progressive. Whether more could have been achieved is simply a question for local politics, about which we know hardly anything. And, of course, you're not ever going to get something that everybody likes.