If we always listened to the likes of "friends of the earth" then we would still be stuck in medieval Britain

I'm amazed that the taxpayers of Ealing are happy for their money to be spent opposing public transport improvements! It shows how selfish some people can be. Sooner or later, the people of Ealing will wake up with gridlock outside their homes unless something is done about traffic there.

Bryan Davey wrote:
I\'m amazed that the taxpayers of Ealing are happy for their money to be spent opposing public transport improvements! It shows how selfish some people can be. Sooner or later, the people of Ealing will wake up with gridlock outside their homes unless something is done about traffic there.

"Sooner or later, the people of Ealing will wake up with gridlock outside their homes unless something is done about traffic there" - thats exactly what will happen if a tram is implemented along the quiet residential roads of Ealing - If anyone is being selfish its loony leftwing politicians like red ken whos ideas such as this that have no objective but to destroy any peaceful lives which people wish to live!

Trams will never be able to force any cars down any side street in my area of Ealing, too many six inch deap, two feet wide potholes

I almost didn't respond to this because I have lost respect for FOE because of the view they have that because the tram proposal is "The only show in town," then it is worth blindly supporting, even though they may have some misgivings. They have marginalised themselves in the debate. I would have hoped that by now they would have realised that the enforced traffic diversions down Singapore Road and Leeland Terrace are the only ones remaining on the entire proposed route and that the quality of life of residents in these streets is under threat. In Singapore Road, for example, there are many families with children and elderly people who live in the Green Man Estate who will be bombarded with exhaust fumes as the diverted traffic idles and waits to return to the Uxbridge Road. Living even closer to where the traffic will go are the elderly people in Hugh Clark House, on the corner of Green Man Lane. As they are near the start of where traffic will queue and wait to return to the Uxbridge Road, they will face more exhaust fumes than others. The third large group of people who will be affected include those at the rear of the building which replaced Marks And Spencers. I believe these are the affordable flats, which possibly hold key workers such as teachers and nurses. It seems a shame FOE could not have had the guts to stand up to TFL and fight for improvements, such as removing the West Ealing diversions - the ONLY ones on the route - and become friends to the humans who will be affected. The tram will not offer anything new that will attract new users and drivers away from cars. It is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem, if even that. As more and more flats are crammed long the Uxbridge Road, the tram will become congested. The sooner the proposal is scrapped, the sooner the energies of both sides of the argument can be put to better use in devising a more long-term, visionary scheme - such as a larger-gauge system under the road, even if it takes decades. London is a very old city. If we believe that it will still be here in a thousand years it is a waste of time and money to tinker for the sake of political expediency. What sort of legacy do we want to leave?