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Total Gridlock! 2.0 CHR version

So next Sunday, the 27th, Chiswick High Road will be closed. The reason remains a mystery. The extent of the closure remains a mystery. But I've only seen signs by Chiswick Lane and the bus garage so perhaps the closure is limited to this end.Riddle me this: when eastbound gridlock occurs and there is no choice but to turn left/north on Turnham Green Terrace, will people get tickets? Ditto turning right/south on Devonshire Road.

David Lesniak ● 2232d8 Comments

It must be a mistake. There is nothing on the roadworks.org site. There is nothing on the TfL roadworks page. I emailed the editor of this site and she said Hounslow Council had been asked what the closure was for and no response was given.It would be literally be criminally irresponsible for any agency to close an important road like this without making a proper effort to make sure people were aware of what was happening. At this stage I would be inclined to believe that it is only a matter of incompetence with someone failing to cancel the placing of dot matrix boards for a closure which, for obvious reasons, now can't take place.

Paul Corcoran ● 2232d

There is a dot matrix box just before Chiswick Lane.No explanation though. Maybe it's for CW9 construction but 'they' dare not tell us for fear of  the Chiswick bad boys doing something very naughty.😉

Adrian Irving ● 2232d

AdrianSurely you don't mean we should follow the example of Staveley and Park roads residents ? 😀

Loraine Pemberton ● 2232d

One would think with all their inside information, folks like Michael Robinson and Paul Campbell would be able to tell us. Unless they're keeping yet another secret because that's what good neighbors do.

David Lesniak ● 2232d

It appears I was wrong and the road is being closed on Sunday.Neither Hounslow nor TfL have published details of the diversion routes. No information is available on bus diversions.Both of these organisations are very strong on rhetoric about reducing congestion and pollution but seem uninterested in anything other than grand schemes to achieve improvements. A statutory responsibility on both to adequately inform the public about road closures would mean that people would be able to plan ahead and the inevitable gridlock would be mitigated to a degree. As it stands if you hadn't walked or drove past the sign or read ChiswickW4.com you won't know what is happening.

Paul Corcoran ● 2229d

Take a look at the front page for the reason.

Jeff Gear ● 2229d

"would mean that people would be able to plan ahead"And why would LBH or TfL ever dream that people may need to plan ahead when they are incapable of planning ahead themselves.  They are totally blinkered when it comes to consultation and consideration. Community engagement is not in line with their ethos.

Steve Taylor ● 2229d

Not quite as big I'll admit - but just this last week, we have had Hounslow Highways arrived digging up the rear access roads where we live. These roads put in years ago to facilitate rear entrance refuse collections, now provide access to garages and back gardens for residents and are the responsibility of the housing department. Not one person has had any sort of notice/consultation through their door, nor has any sort of public type notice been put up. It has taken me four days to find out just what is going on and why as there is absolutely nothing wrong with the road surface, it's hardly the M1 although it is used daily by several residents.Naturally I got the usual officer speak waffly nonsense by way of an explanation - which totally ignored my complaint about no-one being informed of what was going on, and the fact we came face to face with a digger when leaving to go shopping. It seems this is all part of some three year programme - and it's on the Hounslow website and Hounslow Highways who are the contractor for housing put up notices to keep people informed of works - really? Also they do occasionally with some temporary orders publish these in the West London Gazette? Well who knew that? And where can that be found?I am sorry to say I really went for one of our local councillors who passed this tripe on to me - clearly it was the normal shut up and go away crap designed to bat away any criticism and not deal with the problem. Do these morons really think we all spend inordinate amounts of time scrolling through the diabolical Hounslow website just in case there might be something going on locally we should know about. How dare they write to an elected member (and me) and say they put up notices when I told them they certainly had not, why aren't housing monitoring their contractor Hounslow Highways? And why can't these idiots just tell us? Someone needs to seriously get a grip at Hounslow - it is an omnishambles.

Vanessa Smith ● 2229d