As Coventry City Council marches full speed ahead with its drastic bus lane axe tomorrow, next week sees the final two sessions of the public inquiry into the local plan. Some fundamental questions remain unanswered:
- How can any of the council’s figures be robust, now that bus lane removal has started (as of Friday 13th)?
- How can the council still refer to bus lane removal as a mere “trial”, when the Cabinet Member has full delegated authority to remove all bus lanes?
- How can the council promote bus rapid transit and slash bus lanes at the same time – this approach is entirely inconsistent.
- How can a “growing city” expand without putting more emphasis on space efficient modes of transport, and especially on buses and cycling?
- Why has no consideration been made for the dangers which cyclists now face, even during the “trial” period?
- How can the local policy of making walking, cycling and bus usage the “default choice” for journeys up to 5km now be upheld?
- How can new developments be set up with attractive bus provision, if they are at the far reaches of the bus network, yet they no longer have the time saving of using bus lanes?
- What does the council mean by “balancing the needs” of road users? Is there any evidence base to support this, or is this just transport populism?
- Why is the council only using one city (Liverpool) in its transport modelling in respect of bus lanes? Why have no other cities been looked at?
- Why is there no mention at all of the bus lane axe in the recently update transport modelling documents?
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