Businesses going all 'the world is at an end' over some bike lanes.
Typical stuff, 'people must be able to park right outside my shop otherwise my business will wither and die'. Ignoring all evidence and research to the contrary.
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Meanwhile in Enfield / Mini Holland
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Enfield Town Church Street – another of the borough's four Mini Holland projects – before and after the proposed changes.
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Think George Street (etc)
Posted 8 years ago # -
It's confirmation bias. Many business owners couldn't live without their motor vehicles, thus they assume their customers are like them. Duh!
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Some of it is confirmation bias, some of it is misinformation (their local business association is against it) and as I said on Anth's Facebook post, some of it is plain old intimidation of local businesses being asked to put up anti posters by a large local landlord - it's something my sister is involved in & here's her blog on the subject.
https://subversivesuburbanite.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/children-are-traffic-too/
"Shopkeepers who were personally against the scheme were in the minority. Many had concerns, but had simply been misinformed. Most of those with anti posters had done so because ‘They told us Mini Holland would be bad for business’ or quite simply because they’d been told to put them up. A local business association and a big landlord have put their full weight behind the anti campaign, and some businesses feel they can’t say no."
I found this quite interesting - and I wonder now how genuine some other apparent objections from local businesses to various schemes are, or whether they too have been similarly astroturfed.
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Ross Lydall (@RossLydall)
04/11/2016, 17:58
Astonishing results from Walthamstow MiniHolland: 10,000 fewer cars a day, traffic down 56% in village, no collisionshttp://pic.twitter.com/OoQ2Fr8kWq
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Posted 7 years ago #
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