London Stalling

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Congestion has begun to increase sharply again, and not just in central London but across the capital. Traffic has slowed down and road users are spending longer stuck in delays.

And it is not just because of CSH. You can read the full report here.

I used to wonder how so many people could afford the CC daily. Now I know, they don't.

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It'll get better once a few thousand bankers have sodded off to Germany.
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[Andy_Pagin]

And they're making heroic efforts to force people off of motorcycles and back into cars and overcrowded trains.
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[Rogerborg]

It does at least mention motorcycle a couple of times in passing, which is more than TfL tends to do.

Sadly, when asked what form of transport they'd switch to if road-use charging were introduced:

https://i.imgur.com/1Ry9SG9.png

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It's pretty telling that current car drivers would prefer pushbikes to real ones. As many as would prefer, I guess jetpacks and canoes. They can probably see which way road allocation is going.
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Motorcycles/ists get 4 mentions

most positive

[weasley]

[Rogerborg]

I wonder if the option was actually presented to the Londonistanis as "motorcycle" or as "motorcycle / scooter / moped".

One thing to bear in mind is that the pedalist lobby is pretty good at whipping up a frenzy among the lycropaths and getting them to respond to consultations. Although they even get whupped by walking in that one, so maybe not.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Pete.]

[M.C]

They've increased congestion (on main roads) by making every side road a oneway/no entry, all the under-utilised* cycling infrastructure, and even stupid stuff like stopping people from making left turns (as they can't be bothered to sequence traffic lights properly).

*outside rush hour

[Polarbear]

Nothing about making trains, tubes or buses cheap as chips.

50p a journey, ramp up the number of trains and buses

Bit that made me laugh, deliveries to tube stations for pick up. OK, I'll pick up my 3 piece suite at Euston and carry it on my back to my house.

Anyway, we all know it's 50% about forcing people onto pushbikes and 50% revenue creation.
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