http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeability_(spatial_and_transport_planning)
Loosely speaking, permeability is the idea of keeping our streets and paths open. It is generally discussed in my world with reference to cycling (and walking to some extent) . Even if we do limit the access of motor vehicles with one way streets, block offs and no entries, cycling should not be similarly restricted. It takes much campaigning to get unecessary restrictions on cycling undone, and ion the rare occasions it is done, it's hailed as a "cycle facility". The same thing happens if plans to restrict cycling are corrected before anything is built; I successfully campaigned to stop cycles from being banned from turning left into Crow Lane from Whalebone Lane. Welcome though the exemption was, cycling hasn't gained anything -it's had to figh to keep what it had.
Showing posts with label stupid block off. Show all posts
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Saturday, 4 October 2008
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Annoying block off in riverside path
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dock+road+barking&sll=51.536279,0.081478&sspn=0.358771,0.928345&ie=UTF8&ll=51.532001,0.076046&spn=0.011213,0.029011&z=15&iwloc=addr
Locals know the path from the southern end of Abbey Road along the Roding to the A13 and then alongside the A13 to Gascoigne Road. Some while back it was formalised with a proper surface and smart parapet and fence. I came down if from the Gascoigne Road end today, only to find a fence (not a temporary type) across the path at "The Waterfront" development of flats at the end of Abbey Road (in fact in Dock Road not shown on the map).
There are steps down to Abbey Road on the western side of the fence, and the path continues on the western side with steps up and down that surely can't be disability discrimination act compliant. I climbed through the fence and continued round to the barrage (which can be crossed from that side, though there is construction site fencing still on the West Bank side).
I don't know what this is all about. Temporary restrictions owing to construction are to be expected, but why build a permanent fence across a brand new riverside path - and not bother to warn people that there's no access to Abbey Road from Gascoigne Rd using the path?
Locals know the path from the southern end of Abbey Road along the Roding to the A13 and then alongside the A13 to Gascoigne Road. Some while back it was formalised with a proper surface and smart parapet and fence. I came down if from the Gascoigne Road end today, only to find a fence (not a temporary type) across the path at "The Waterfront" development of flats at the end of Abbey Road (in fact in Dock Road not shown on the map).
There are steps down to Abbey Road on the western side of the fence, and the path continues on the western side with steps up and down that surely can't be disability discrimination act compliant. I climbed through the fence and continued round to the barrage (which can be crossed from that side, though there is construction site fencing still on the West Bank side).
I don't know what this is all about. Temporary restrictions owing to construction are to be expected, but why build a permanent fence across a brand new riverside path - and not bother to warn people that there's no access to Abbey Road from Gascoigne Rd using the path?
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