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It's now into week 10 and they've been working weekends.If that is fast for putting in a line of kerbs and some pavements then you're easily pleased..... but you would be as it's "just for you".This is a disasterous waste of money which has already started to destroy local business and introduces clear dangers to the local community.Passing trade already down on two business owners I've spoken with - one of which I use every week.As noted, traffic congestion already started due to buses, recycle wagons etc.Couriers now have nowhere to pull up and will undobtably start to use residents access - access which most of them didn't want changed.For me the clear danger is the further reduced ability for the Services to move up and down BMR quickly.As long as I can remember ambulances could fly out of the depot in Hanwell and be at their destination really quickly when heading South. The changes to this stretch of road cannot have any other effect than slowing their progress down by reaching their calls and/or depositing at Ealing Hospital.Maybe the first few who suffer from this will be cyclists steadfastly refusing to use this who cause accidents and ambulances cannot get to them quickly. Sadly I think it'll more likely be local residents who were hugely against this or others suffering from the increased danger of confusing road layout, much squeezed lane size, unfamilar observations needed when walking etc - I'll be amazed if there isn't a couple of head on crashes in certain sections over the next year or so.But Jack is alright in his lycra so that's okay.......

Colin Goodman ● 10d