TfL Deny Planning to Press Ahead Regardless with Cycle Superhighway

Say surveys currently being made of Chiswick High Road 'not sinister'

Tfl undertake detailed measurements of Chiswick High Road this week

Transport for London (TfL) have denied claims that they plan to ignore feedback from the Cycle Superhighway consultation after surveyors were spotted on Chiswick High Road this week making detailed measurements.

When approached by local residents the surveyors confirmed they were working for TfL. When we contacted TfL they admitted that the measurements being taken were for the proposed Cycle Superhighway 9.

One worker was seen using sophisticated digital measuring equipment outside Gail's Bakery a spot where some pavement may need to be removed if the project proceeds.

Their spokesperson said, "The residents are correct, those contractors were working on our behalf and were surveying the road as part of the CS9 proposals, but it isn’t anything sinister! We have been doing road and pavement surveys since before the consultation launched (as we do on any major proposal) and will continue to do so.

"This doesn’t mean that we are definitely going ahead with the project though.

"We’ve not made a decision and we’ve not published the consultation response. This is all just information gathering."

One local resident who alerted us to the work of the surveyors said, "The initial plans were always problematic in that they committed TfL to a single option yet they don't seem to have done particularly detailed planning and there were many errors which local people will have pointed out during the consultation. Hopefully this work represents a response to that and proper measurements are now being taken. Sadly, I think they will find that many more trees than they originally said will need to be removed."

The deadline for the public consultation on the proposed CS9 has now ended.

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CS9 is part of the Mayor's draft Transport Strategy and Healthy Streets project which aims to encourage walking, cycling and using public transport. TfL say it will provide improvement for all road users and offer a clearer and safer route for people to cycle in West London, make it easier to cross busy roads, and remove traffic on some residential roads.

December 2, 2017