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Acton Lane - South Parade

I know there has been a notice to review the road closures on TGT and Fishers lane but have you noticed the amount of traffic that now Q's down South Parade from Acton lane traffic trying to get to Chiswick High Road?It's now queuing all the way past the petrol station past Fishers Lane, possibly further and it's not even September yet.They need to get a shake on with this review sharpish or else Chiswick will grind to a standstill in rush hour

Chris Johnson ● 2256d27 Comments

I think gridlock is the idea! So that people change their behaviour over time and either walk, use public transport or cycle.

Cecile Parfitt ● 2256d

Yeh, we're all looking forward to cycling to Sains during the soggy cold winter months. Madness

Stephen Gould ● 2256d

Becoming difficult to get to our GP in South Parade. Don't want to change GP but we live south of the High Rd...

Linda Bright ● 2256d

If they're not now going to install cameras to 'enforce' the Fisher Lane closure, they should at least repaint the junctions on either side and remove the roundabout in South Parade to make the changes more obvious and more likely to be obeyed. Otherwise close the road completely or abandon the scheme altogether, as the present half-baked arrangement will never work properly or safely.

Peter Evans ● 2256d

Its everywhere Residents came out in force to protest against Lambeth today due to road closures and restrictions.  A road bearing the brunt of other roads closures and restrictions

Julian Pavey ● 2256d

Acton Lane has now become a rat-run.... and when the bus diversions are in place and the buses roll down here, the traffic noise, pollution and beeping is awful.

Jimmy Kim ● 2255d

Chris, what time of day are these queues? I have not noticed them on Acton Lane the few times I was up there. I have given up on 272 bus due to queues up around Turnham Green from Heathfield Terrace. Couple of evenings have been really bad with queues down Sutton Lane and back to Town Hall. The traffic lights have changed so we get some really short changes for traffic heading up to the High Rd, that may also be the case on Acton Lane driving down to the High Road.So as well as more traffic on these roads, the change in traffic signalling means less flow as well! This would I suspect be a TFL responsibility, but hard to believe it would be done without some discussion with Hounslow. But you never know.

Paul Green ● 2255d

My objection to the term 'rat run' is well documented, as people are quite at liberty to use the roads provided to get from place to place, until the authorities decide for whatever reason that they can't. But to call South Parade/Acton Lane a 'rat-run' is an even more inappropriate use of the term, for that's the B409, an established main road. That more traffic might be using it because of the closure of other roads is a different matter and presumably intentional on the part of Ealing and Hounslow and potentially acceptable or not, depending on the outcome.

Peter Evans ● 2255d

The trouble with these schemes is they are not thought through and divert traffic onto many already busy routes. Acton Lane and South Parade might be a B road but it also very residential and borders our lovely green spaces. I never see why its OK to cause gridlock on these roads.Things are being made worse by changes to the traffic lights at the Acton Lane junction with the High Road.

Paul Green ● 2255d

Maybe if Acton Lane has become a 'rat-run' to the annoyance of residents and a danger to children, it should be closed as well, followed by...!

Peter Evans ● 2255d

Lets be serious here anyone coming up with these schemes would be deemed to be not just dense not just thick but  public school no self awareness dense. They probably are not either so what is the ulterior motive there has to be one but what?Getting cars off the road is too simple and unworkable on so many level so what is it.

Mick Collins ● 2255d

It really is an absolute joke! 1pm and I've just driven down Acton Lane from the Turnham Green End and the traffic was really building up down Acton Lane. Cars still turning left into and coming out of Fishers Lane even though the No Entry signs are pretty clear. And I see on the front page that no enforcement is being put in place as they can't afford to instal cameras! So one might as well just turn left into Fishers Lane and to hell with it! As pointed out previously, it will be absolute chaos when traffic soon really starts to increase.

Jill Merrett ● 2255d

See below link started by a Chiswick resident:-https://www.change.org/p/hounslow-and-ealing-councils-petition-against-closure-fishers-lane-and-turnham-green-terrace-in-chiswick-to-cars

Loraine Pemberton ● 2255d

It's hardly a rat run it's the only way to get to the high road now.  As of lunch time the traffic was terrible queuing at the lights at Acton Lane/Chiswick High Road.

Helen Whitman ● 2255d

I started this petition. I urge all who support  it to sign and forward  and also write to Ealing Council at the email address on the petition. The only way we can reverse these closures is to make it very clear to Ealing and Hounslow councils these changes are extremely unpopular and unacceptable to the local community.

Dr Andrew Levison ● 2255d

I've noticed it from around 4 o'clock onwards, traffic queuing back past the petrol station. As I live in the "North" section of Chiswick I have to use it everyday to get to my customers and access merchants for supplies.It can't be rat running if its the only viable option now to get to CHR from "North" Chiswick other than Goldhawk Rd that is also a bottleneck.It won't be long before residents of this area will be up in arms too as the traffic that used to use TGT & Fishers Lane to get N-S now pile down here, utter disgrace whoever thought up this crazy scheme, what did they think would happen all of a sudden, everyone would just get on a bike? Ludicrous.

Chris Johnson ● 2255d

Signed and shared on social media.

Jim Brown ● 2255d

The problem with blaming the traffic queues in Acton Lane on the closure of TGT is that TGT has a queue of traffic going down it as well.

Peter Evans ● 2255d

It actually won’t be long until there is an accident caused by this gridlock.  The mini roundabouts get blocked so people are ignoring the rules of the road, buses can’t get through, the 94 bus’ last stop causes tailbacks, scooters are overtaking stationary vehicles and cutting across oncoming traffic, it takes an age for anyone to exit the petrol station, the two zebra crossings by the Duke are obscured by waiting traffic .... this whole scheme is utterly ridiculous, I just don’t understand what the benefits are meant to be?

Fiona Campbell ● 2254d

The closures have no doubt added to traffic, but its the traffic signals that are the main problem. There are long tailbacks both north and south at this junction. Even without the closures, there would be long tailbacks. Will be awful next week when schools start and people back from hols. It may be Hounslow or TFL who made this change, but unless the lights allow more traffic through things will get worse. Speaks to a complete lack of planning.

Paul Green ● 2254d

Petition signed in the hope that it might do some good. I have to say, despite being a (hopefully) law abiding citizen, it was very tempting to drive down Fisher's Lane yesterday when attempting to do a family shop. I would normally park at the back of Waitrose to do this, but now am expected to join the horrendous queue to get on to Acton Lane and down to the High Street that way - absolute madness. And the various people claiming it is not these road closures that are causing these queues are clearly in cloud cuckoo land! It most certainly is - it was never like this before.As a few people have commented, what is the point to these closures? TGT and Fisher's Lane aren't suddenly to become lovely pedestrianised roads, and I can't see how cyclists will benefit either. Those who are clearly not going to benefit are both the residents of Chiswick and local shopkeepers and businesses. And to those who say we should be walking or cycling? Clearly this is not practical on a number of levels, particularly if shopping, transporting children, collecting food orders, etc.I really do urge all those who feel the same way to sign any petitions that are going around (a local friend of mine has also recently started one) and write to anyone/everyone who will listen. It really is a complete joke...

Mark Edwards ● 2254d

As others have suggested, unless these schemes work as intended, they're just introducing more uncertainly among pedestrians, cyclists and even drivers, as to what they're supposed to do and what protection they have.

Peter Evans ● 2254d

I've not been able to drive for the past few weeks, so could someone tell me, if I drive down Dolman Road to visit my GP and park, can I get out by turning right at the end into the High Road?

Micki Hawkes ● 2254d

>>if I drive down Dolman Road to visit my GP and park, can I get out by turning right at the end into the High Road?<

Gordon McDonald ● 2254d

Thank you Gordon.

Micki Hawkes ● 2254d

You can also turn left but you're no longer allowed to go under the railway bridge.

Peter Evans ● 2254d

Not everybody can walk or use public transport. Many have health reasons why the can’t or don’t. Think of the wider issue that not everybody is as fit as yourself so don’t expect your view of the world is ideal either.

c james ● 2253d