Hi Philipa,There are more people commuting now then there were when lockdown started getting eased, I presume as people feel more confident about using the tube and buses. The impression I get is that the footfall on TGT has fallen since these measures have been introduced and enforced, which is ironic since in part the measures were meant to aid increased space for pedestrians to accomodate the footfall 'safely'. A cynic may say the measures have improved the ability to 'social distance'on TGT.Maybe footfall is starting to slowly increasing again, but in the meantime some of the traders say they are suffering. Some of the comments I've read from car drivers on this forum frustrate me, those that say they couldn't possibly go shopping in chiswick now because a limited number of parking places are now inaccesible to them - there are plenty of parking spaces within a relatively short walk e.g. on South Parade, in the Glebe Street CPZ etc. but there are quite probably people who would stop in TGT to shop there, maybe on their way back from or to somewhere else (possibly another shop, friends, trip out etc.) and that has now gone.I agree there is plenty of shopping that doesn't need a car, some people are 'married' to their cars, but there is a significant proportion of previous shoppers in TGT who now probably won't frequent it as often if at all, because the ease of making an impulse stop has stopped, and there doesn't as it stands appear to be any significant benefit.I make these comments having looked at TGT in recent weeks, being fairly pro-cycling myself (in spite of not having a cycle at the moment mainly due to space and security concerns) and feeling pretty exasperated by the attitude of some car drivers on this forum that they should pretty much be allowed to go wherever they want, whenever they want, and have every single bit of road tarmac available to use, regardless of the impact on local residents living nearby.And I do more often than not walk to the shops in TGT and Chiswick from where I live (near Wendell Park).
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