Tom, I am grateful for the apology. To note, I was fully aware of the roadworks, I did not see any relevance to an event nearly a month ago to what happened last week. Its odd again you 'assume' that I was not and seemed so determined to disprove photographic evidence.The second point is jibberish. Of course its traffic displaced from other routes, primarly the High Road and also other routes to the north of Chiswick, namely via Fishers Lane and TGT. The flow of traffic off the western end of CHR and onto Wellesley can be seen every morning, as lots of cars and even lorries avoid CHR in favour of Wellesley and then SLN. The bus gate and new light phasing often let as few as 5-6 vehicles through each green phase. Of course people avoid this route. The buses coped perfectly fine with the Acton Lane junction, the bus gate is not about bus priority but stopping non bus traffic. The trade off is preventing total gridlock for vehicles on the central stretch of the High Road, versus more congestion and pollution on the roads to the west of Chiswick.This is exactly what the councillor has described. Why do you continue to make stuff up when local residents are relating what they see on a daily basis. One reason the A4 may be carrying a larger proportion of traffic is that the remaining routes through Chiswick are at capacity, hence the queues shown in the photographs. A traffic count up SLN whould show little 'traffic' at that point, given the log jam. Please stop making up silly explanations to meet your fixed views. We cannot have a sensible debate with someone who makes such incorrect statements.We have no idea of traffic flows on South Parade, bus travel times from last year tell us nothing. A good proportion of the traffic going north on Acton Lane head up Bollo, then another load carries on north on Acton Lane at the Duke of Sussex. The remainder carries on along South Parade. So only a proportion of initial Acton Lane traffic reaches South Parade, and with no major traffic lights or choke points, there would be no eastbound delays for buses.
Bill George ● 1953d