Khan's plan to 'De Traffic' London. Entirely.

[Rogerborg]

[craigT19]

Bet he will still manage to open it back up again once a year for the rich kids from saudi to drive around in their lambos though .
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[Kris]

UN Agenda 21 in full swing.

Also see they want to give traffic Wombles more powers too. Ha!

Very interesting times. Any suggestions on how to stop it all?
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[Azoth]

The senses don't lie. Look at him, his height, his weak physique and his face. He doesn't know strength or courage. He has no personal individuality or character at all. He isn't a leader type, but someone's puppet. Nature cannot be defied so easily. Whose puppet? Sorry to say, the usual saheb/memsaheb to whom he feels inferior. Old school stuff. He isn't cut from the right cloth to be independent leadership material. The guy is full of fear.

You want him gone? You could do it but he'd be replaced. Plenty more where he came from. Better that he sees the light. At the moment he fears the shadow of his masters' black arts, but they haven't actually touched him. Find out what he's doing, get the evidence a la Keith Vaz, and then ask him to look at these issues again.

[Andy_Pagin]

[BTTD]

My father was born and grew up in Islington (long before it became worth £m's) and subsequently spent his working life in London too (Belgravia). He always drove into work, then later as the traffic got worse started using a motorbike for the commute (1980's). He never used the train in and out of the city because he started early and worked late = infrequent and often unreliable trains. He also liked his cars and bikes.
He once told me that the best thing they could do in the central few miles of London would be to pedestrianize it, get rid of the busses and bring back trams. I remember being really surprised as he hated walking and public transport.
His reasoning was:
Busses spew out tons of crap, get rid.
Central London is a fairly small area, and you can actually walk a lot of places quicker than getting a tube. Slightly longer journeys = tube or... empty streets with a decent tram system that isn't getting stuck in traffic - hop on hop off, easy fast and clean.

It sounds like they're slowly heading that way, but with bicycles as the main mode of transport and not getting rid of the filth spewing busses.

[Andy_Pagin]

One place they could almost completely pedestrianize is the City Of London a.k.a. the Square Mile. But I guess this would mildly inconvenience a lot of very rich, very self-important people, so it'll never happen.

(Yes I know Sadiq Khans' influence only extends to the riff-raff outside of the city walls).
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[Rogerborg]

[stinkwheel]

London has an unprescedented level of devolution and self-government and yet they STILL manage to elect politicians who implement seemingly fuckwitted and universally unpopular policies.

So, I can only conclude that the majority of the people doing the voting are the fuckwits. If the people of London weren't fuckwits, they wouldn't propose then elect fuckwitted representatives with fuckwitted policies.
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[Polarbear]

Unless I missed it during my skimming of that propaganda leaflet, two words I didn't notice in respect to public transport are 'cheap' or 'free'.

A free hop on, hop off tram/bus system. A free or nominal priced tube system I could go along with as far as commuters and tourists go.

However I don't live in London so don't really give a rats arse what they do as I live in about the only city in the UK specifically designed with the car in mind. Dual carriage ways pretty well everywhere off the estates. Luxury
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[Ste]

Looks like all the cyclist haters are going to have to get on their bikes.

[Suntan Sid]

Another reason to remove or alter your number plate and carry on as normal.
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[M.C]

So the congestion charge was (supposedly) to ease congestion, and now they're actively seeking to increase it? Surely it needs to be scrapped then?

Khan's a tw@, despite the propaganda about the short term inconvenience when they were building all the cycling infrastructure, everyone could see they were reducing road capacity.

[Andy_Pagin]

[Polarbear]

What will they do for money when they ban cars in the centre. Change the congestion zone to anything inside the M25?

Actually, how far out does London extend, the London that the Mayor can affect?
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[M.C]