MP claims there is ‘overwhelming opposition’ to Enfield's Mini Holland

This looks like fairly decent infrastructure. 

I live off  Winchmore Hill Broadway in a village style community which I like, I walk around do som shopping chat to local traders and so on.

I really and seldom see any cyclists on the road , where are all these cyclists that need our whole community turned upside down to give special super highways  for...its just nonsense.

I was speaking to our local bike shop , he struggles to sell bikes and is considering closing up such is the lack of demand .....where are the cyclists ?

Lets see some sense and kick this scheme into touch and spend the £40million on something that we can all benefit from...perhaps a rate reduction ? or the pavements repaired ?

Never trust locals to comment on such issues.  Near to where I live there were continual complaints about too much traffic affecting local businesses and the constant gridlock making it horrible for shoppers.  So, eventually they built a bypass.  Shortly after it built the same people were complaining that due to the bypass they were losing business because the street was now quieter.  Everyone acts in self interest without actually understanding the potential impact.  That is why you need a supposed impartial body who act in the best interests of the public.  In the case of this plan we only need to look at the recent reports about pollution levels in part of London.  Developments like this are an important part of overcoming those problems.

What a cretin.

17000 sent out.

2828 returned. Oddly enough the split of 1973 against, 462 for, 155 partially support and 13 don't knows equals 2603 so where's the remaining 225 cards?!!

Further, only 1973 were that horrified by the proposal that they returned the cards. Most will be lazy sods with little understanding of what is even going in, no doubt pushed a touch by this out of date counsellor presenting a prejudiced view.

The rest who did respond supported or weren't offput by it, even with 225 cards seemingly not accounted for.

So actually in reality 1973 were 'officially' opposed, some 15,027 were so unconcerned by the proposal they didn't actively object.

Propose a power station in that immediate location, send 17000 opinion cards out and most will not only object but will make damn sure their voice is heard!

Conclusion? Congratulations Mr. Burrowes, you've just essentially shown this is actually wanted.  

give them a 4 lane urban clearway...see how much that improves the quality of life.

"75 per cent of my constituents have said no to Cycle Enfield along the A105"

No you dipshit, 75% of the people who responded have said no.  

I'd love to see what the survey cards actually said. I suspect that this MP has an agenda and wouldn't be surprised if the thing was phrased along the lines of "do you support the proposals to reduce parking in the high street?" Ie playing up the perceived negatives and playing down or omitting the positives.

"The silent majority have spoken" and told you to go back to your man cave and leave the policy decisions to grown ups.

Just on the ballot...

There's a reason why polling companies use telephone or street interviews. If you use postal returns it becomes largely biased towards those with spare time, the over 60's.

The same of course is usually true of public consultations, which is why those that campaign for cycling make an effort to promote them (with some success in the mini-Hollands).

I'm sure many of you will have been watching the livestream of the GLA Transport Committee session yesterday... no?

Anyway, as the public gallery had a small group of objectors from Enfield, Gilligan engaged in a little bit of trolling.  He took a moment to thank them for the publicity which helped attract so much support during the consultation.

A point he repeated several times is that any worthwhile scheme will attract objectors. Conversely of course that would mean if there aren't objections, whatever is being proposed is probably pointless.

I hope Boris realises that this (rather ignorant) MP is on a hiding to nothing and tells him to hop it.  We desparately need these demo schemes to work so they can be used as an example in the future.  If they get watered down then the point will not be made well enough.  This is the only way that I can see change being made to solve local air pollution problems.  

If the point isn't made well enough then we can expect our town centres to be just as awful for years to come.  

What is it about people that they will campaign tooth and nail against change just for the sake of it?  

I bet if you carried out a similar poll for parking fines or speeding fines, you would get a similar response. Shall we ban those as well?

OR should we just do what is right to improve the lives of everybody, rather than just pandering to entitled drivers?

There is always such a fuss made, as if on-street parking is the hallmark of true civilisation... It isn't some constitutional right to be able to park on the road.

Anyway, if there's a car park at each end of the street anyway then what's the problem?

Is the MP saying that so many of his constituents are unable to walk even short distances? If so, doesn't he find that worrying?

The changes would drag large parts of Enfield out of the drab seventies, the idiots petitioned don't know what's good for them. I expect if the same idiots are asked again in a couple of years they'll back the changes.

These morons don't get that having cycle lanes mean they will be held up less by bikes because of the segrated bike lanes.

0% cycling share, the place needs to change, there's no point petitioning such ignorant people about something they know nothing about.

I'm struggling to understand his complaint.  The nice part of Enfield town centre is the pedestrianised area.  The area on the high street, segragated by two lanes of slow moving traffic is horrible.  Removing the traffic will greatly improve the area and the quality of shops will be better.  The existing car parks are at each end of the high street so I'm not sure why he thinks car parking spaces will be removed, there are only a few parking spaces on the road running through the centre.

50.6% of his consituents are against David Burrowes. I presume that he will meet with Mr Cameron in due course to abolish David Burrowes.

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-david-burrowes/1518

Who knows what The Truth is here - and should we care? Governments (national and local) aren't only elected to do what's popular - they're supposed to have vision and to lead sometimes. The right thing isn't always the currently popular thing.

Less than 17% of those surveyed returned a Freepost response. So 75% of 17% are bothered enough to respond. And to be fair even less were bothered enough to state they were in favour. But he certainly can't honestly claim that 75% of his constituents oppose the scheme. But then I'm sure this goes on all over for all sort of schemes.

Somebody telling porkies