basingstoke123 wrote: ↑1 Jan 2024, 12:54pm
Mike Sales wrote: ↑20 Dec 2023, 11:34am
In my many years of cycling I remember a whole series of plans, strategies, studies and whatever, none of which have come to very much. So I am afraid that I do not expect much to come from them in future.
So it's not just my local authority.
Cynically I sometimes think a strategy is where you describe things that you are 'supposed' to do, but have no intention of doing. Then when someone complains 'why isn't the council doing xxxx?', they can be given the reply 'But we are. We take xxxx very seriously. Here is the agreed strategy'.
I must try this in my next work appraisal.
When strategies are periodically revised or updated, there is rarely any review of the previous strategy. No acknowledgement of its ineffectiveness, let alone any analysis as to why.
But the quality of presentation has definitely improved.
You're not being cycnical at all
When a strategy (or plan) is completed the task is finished. It's as simple as that. The task is actually writing the strategy (or plan) to cover 5/10 or whatever years. When that time has elapsed a new one will be written.
That's what councils/ governments do - nothing more.
Implementing what the strategy/plan states is a completely different task and will depend on a whole range of factors, mainly resulting in complete inaction or at the most a token effect.