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A406 New Southgate to Green Lanes
On 11 Mar, 09:50, Tom Barry wrote:
Barry Salter wrote: What is *needed* for that stretch of the A406 is a much more substantial upgrade to bring it in line with the rest of the road, but of course that ain't gonna happen because that would actually be *useful*. Useful being shorthand for 'hugely expensive, disruptive, environmentally damaging and a throwback to the failed ideas of the 1960s when people thought urban motorways were a good idea'. Tom "Failed" - sorry, I didn't catch your reason why you think they've failed? East London with it's A12, A406 and A13 is way easier to traverse than any other part of London. If you've ever lived in central London (zone 1) and tried to escape London by car, you'll know that you REALLY appreciate these "failed" roads. And before you ask why I would be using a car, have you ever tried to get to remote parts of the country without a car? Living in South London with its failed public transport and its failed, inadequate road system and its failed connectivity with the rest of the country, I would very much like one of these "hideous", "disruptive", "environmentally damaging" and "useless" roads to help me carve my way through areas of FAILED infrastructure planning. It's about time that NIMBYs stopped preventing progress and causing the rest of the Londoners to actually be able to do the business they plan to do, rather than having their time wasted by congestion (on the roads / rails or otherwise). |
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