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atforms and trains the cycleways are the best possible investment in improving public transport for all users but the taxi lobby was predicting doom and dire congestion even before a single bit of work had been done now they are gathering their evidence by asking cabbies for their opinions to back up their claims taxi lobbyists at work confusing camden council with former mayor boris johnson the taxi lobby paints as fraud any evidence of upper photo cyclists queuing for red lights on the trial layout and lower photo reduce pollution levels elsewhere in his rant riesel says in my view a press and radio campaign would have a similar effect in reducing accidents as the proposed cycle superhighway and would not cost a fraction of the proposed cycle scheme in terms of capital outlay nor in terms of the on going additional costs to london s businesses at least this time he admits it is his own view but it shows how the taxi lobby will put forward any ill informed nonsense in their blanket opposition to improving the city and to preventing any road space being given over to non polluting non congesting forms of transport if the cabbie lobby is able to overwhelm the council with negative opinions about tavistock place however fanciful and however false and the liveable cities lobby fails to get in lots of positive responses this pioneering scheme may meet its end please spread the message and get lots of people to take part in camden s consultation https consultations wearecamden org corporate services torrington place tavistock place route proposed im supporting_documents detailed 20information pdf hospital bus bypass operation goes awry 16 friday sep 2016 posted by paulgannonbike in bus stop bypass cycle superhighway floating bus stop space4cycling uncategorized 3 comments thanks to the freedom of information act an email from the chief executive of a major london hospital trust to a colleague has cast some light on things normally shaded from the public gaze for obtaining this information thanks must go to francis gaskin misterfrancis https letzterkunstgriff files wordpress com 2016 09 re bus stop protest support pdf and tom kearney comadad https twitter com comadad status 775684979498029057 the background to this story is the opposition of guy s and st thomas hospital trust on the south bank of the thames to the design of a cycle route passing the main entrance to the hospital transport for london tfl proposed to use the tried and tested system known as a bus stop bypass or floating bus stop this involves running a cycle track behind a bus stop allowing buses to pull up and pull away unimpeded by cyclists and also means cyclists don t have to deal with large motor vehicles pulling up in front of them forcing them out into the lane of motor traffic to pass a stopped bus and pulling away dangerously a bus stop bypass scheme in london photo terrypatterson bus stop bypass at a dutch hospital photo hackneycyclist however the design requires those who want to get on or off a bus to cross the cycle track and this feature has engendered opposition from the some quarters to their use in britain despite their being quite common in continental europe the evidence suggests that bus stop bypasses do not pose any threat to the safety of pedestrians also they are popular with both cyclists and bus drivers the latter having one less hazard to deal with in their testing job of driving all day round the streets of london or other city trl research backs the safety and ease of use for pedestrians cyclists of bus stop bypasses yet the hospital trust has fought a determined campaign to prevent this type of solution being applied in its neck of the woods so what one might well ask corporations frequently oppose such proposals what s different here in an email to colleagues tasked with producing the trust s media strategy for fighting the bus stop bypass peter allanson the trust s secretary and head of corporate affairs begins by saying thank you for this and particularly the effort that has gone into producing it new territory for me to be a community activist this is a very revealing statement not because the hospital trust is running a campaign but because it is quite consciously employing the methods and spirit of a real community campaign the hospital trust has set up a petition and organised a street protest the hospital trust emphasises that it is particularly concerned about impact on patients carers the elderly disabled and families with children in buggies and wheelchairs a local community activist from the lambeth pensioners action group is quoted as saying all londoners especially the most vulnerable have the right to safety on the roads and not to have their safety and lives compromised and professor john porter the lead governor of the hospital trust s council of governors says that we are very concerned that having to cross a busy uncontrolled cycle lane will often put people at considerable risk guy s and st thomas hospital trust s web campaign in its publicity about the bus stop bypass proposal the hospital trust says we believe that tfl s transport for london plans for cycle lanes and so called floating bus stops on westminster bridge pose risks to both pedestrians and cyclists this is where we need to refer back to peter allanson s community activist email in one paragraph commenting on the draft media strategy document allanson questions a statement in the draft that claims that floating bus stops are unsafe allanson suggests that i don t think we ve any evidence that they are unsafe even though we think they are would it be better to talk about posing unnecessary risk and could be unsafe or is that too pusillanimous setting aside the spectacle of a senior nhs health service manager describing telling the truth about the absence of evidence for its campaign as pusillanimous we gain an insight into the reality of the hospital trust s community activism it s a sham borrowing the tools of community activism petitions letters to the local papers protest demonstrations etc for a corporate purpose as a follow on from its petition the hospital trust also issued a press release and organised a street protest actually a staged photo shoot an email from peter allanson noted that we ve fixed the date in consultation with kate hoey mp so she can be there so no worries we need to make sure we have at the front of any photo those we think will be most affected wheelchair user blind person mother with lots of children including a buggy etc have you any of these you could field the documents uncovered by the foi requests show that there was disquiet within guy s and st thomas hospitals with the hospital trust management s programme aimed at preventing implementation of the bus stop bypass and at some of the language used by the hospital trust management but these views were disregarded as you can see from the documents reproduced here these dissenting emails have been censored to remove the name of who sent them so we remain unaware of whom within the trust opposed its pretence of community activism and some of the emails were totally or almost totally redacted also we get a hint of the pressure of mid level management charged with running day to day hospital services as well as contribute to the senior management s community activism yet despite the nhs being in a crisis of capacity and of funds the hospital trust used nhs funds to run its campaign furthermore one foi document revealed that the hospital trust has spent nearly 10 000 of nhs funds on legal advice for its unsuccessful judicial review which it undertook alongside the community activist campaign the response to the foi requests also showed that the hospital trust did not record the time its management and employees spent on the community activist campaign so the actual cost to the taxpayer of the trust s community activism is considerably more than just 10 000 cycle campaigners truly community activists funding their campaigns out of their own pockets and running them in their spare time were left with providing the evidence from the that suggests that bus stop bypasses are not a safety problem the uk s own transport research laboratory trl has studied the issue in detail and concluded that safety of pedestrians is not seriously compromised meanwhile a supposedly science and evidence based medical services profession has promoted its corporate campaign based on a lack of evidence it s almost as if the nhs were promoting the evidence free assertion that inoculation causes autism while the public were uncovering that the evidence showed they were wrong it s a form of role reversal increasingly or so it seems we are facing pretend community campaigns being conducted by corporate interests in a previous blog https cyclableblog wordpress com 2016 06 12 cyclings dodgy dossier i wrote about how the british bus industry had set up a body called greener journeys to run a campaign to promote buses and denigrate other transport modes such as rail and cycling the campaign was run by a public relations firm with specialists in providing reputation uplift services to their clients the greener journeys tried to give cycling a reputation down shove in a report claiming that cycling was predominantly a transport mode of the affluent unfortunately for greener journeys i pointed out that the study it cited to back up the claim had been selectively cited and did not actually support that conclusion instead it showed that the participation rate for cycling in london is roughly the same for all of those with household incomes of 15 000 or more the sight of the combined corporate class of bus company executives well paid pr professionals academics sitting on comfortable advisory boards and friendly journalists attacking cyclists for being too upper class may be a delicious irony however it underlines the seriousness with which we need to take corporate community activism greener journeys was cool enough about it all to assume that no one would call them out for hypocritically creating a class war all that matters to them is that the class war or other message get circulated and undermine the target of their ire bus company executives wouldn t seem to be obvious collaborators with anarchist groups such as class war now this may all be nothing new certainly corporations and other powerful interests have long lobbied often corrupted and sometimes even controlled governments and local authorities a lot of the arguments deployed to rubbish the science of climate change no doubt originated in corporate meeting rooms when reputation uplift specialists discussed the needs of the carbon fuel industries when faced with the realities of fossil fuel based global warming such as opposition to wind turbines maybe what is new is that modern tools like freedom of information act and the organising and information spreading capabilities of the internet are having an effect we genuine community activist groups can exchange information with an ease that is previously unparalleled with the rights gained through the freedom of information act we can prise out information formerly kept secret for 30 or more years with twitter facebook and the blogosphere we can circulate that information get it into the public debate perhaps to become of influence it s interesting to note that the first to circulate some of the revelations about the guy s and st thomas hospital trust were campaigners who put in the foi requests other cycle campaigners then rapidly retweeted the information sometime later the specialist cycling press had picked up the story and wrote about it to be followed a day later by mainstream press in london s evening standard no doubt a guardian and maybe a couple of other newspaper articles will follow this too is new the press have only beginning to cover cycling as a transport issue in recent years and even though we may often despair at the vapidity of much coverage it is a very welcome development from a report in the evening standard but it remains the job of the campaigners to ferret out the information even to do basic research while corporates can dig into their coffers public or private to try and hide the research and the facts and to spin a message that represents their corporate view we have no evidence that bus bypasses are dangerous but let s say they are this is community activism in the service of corporate interests and which requires real community activists to divert their efforts from their normal activities of lobbying petitioning protesting etc into uncovering the truth in any situation in recent months i ve heard of staff working for a hydro scheme company sending in responses to the planning consultation as local residents and in one case engaging in facebook discussions under the same pretence the planning application was rejected and the company is now appealing in objecting to the new application local campaigners discovered that the competent natural resources authority had acceded to a company request to do a survey of bio diversity in one area from a distance using binoculars the campaigners commissioned their own ground survey to establish the real situation and not surprisingly revealed a much denser biology that would be put at risk another hydro scheme involved using the site of a world war ii and post war weapons dump official and corporate surveys found little to worry about but local campaigners again commissioned their own water survey after discovering that the official and corporate surveys were limited to near surface sampling deeper sampling revealed that if the waters were disturbed or released there would be worrying levels of chemical weapons waster and even small amounts of nuclear waste material a decision on planning approval for this project is awaited a third scheme concerned an application for sinking a new mine into some hills in a former coalfield area which had been affected by a recent landslip where mud and trees slid down and across a road and halfway up buildings on the opposite side fortunately there were no injuries but the landslip alarmed local campaigners who also worried that the new mine would alter underground drainage patterns and undermine the hill causing more landslips the applicant company employed a geologist who claimed there were no faults in the area however local campaigners checked out the official geology maps and discovered there was indeed a deep going fault that would endanger drainage patterns and make more landslips likely this evidence led to the rejection of the planning application but once again economic use of the truth by corporate interests put local community campaigners on the back foot only for those genuine campaigners to have to uncover the truth this a form of role reversal professionals don t serve to garner information about reality but gather and invent distortions to aid the sponsoring 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