London lane removals, 2012 - 2017 (RJ vlog, oh noes)

[Rogerborg]

TRIGGER WARNING: vlogger.

No talky-bollocks (Royal Jordanian, yo), just a demonstration of London's obsession with removing road capacity in order to... worsen congestion, I guess. I can't see any other reason.

The contrast between road space and traffic flow in 2012 and 2017 is pretty startling.

The goal seems to be to make the roads so inconvenient with removed, narrowed or special purpose lanes, "calming" and double whites that people just give up and stop using them. It's clearly not working.

Where That London leads, I fear the provinces are sure to follow.
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[derillius24]

How the folks of Landan manage to commute in these conditions everyday (for a whole working life for many, I imagine) is just beyond me.

Perhaps being Scootch, and living away from the Central Belt, I'm existing in a sparsely populated bubble however I've always thought the same thing; many of those living in London who absolutely despise the place, I know quite a few, could get a similar job in numerous other parts of the UK where stress levels owing to stuff like traffic, congestion, general mindset and outrageous living costs are a world apart. Yet, the magnetism continues.

Stockholm Syndrome?
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[Rogerborg]

And driving the traffic, congestion and pollution elsewhere.

The aptly named Hope Street in Glasgow Toon is currently Scotchland's most polluted road. Because why? Because they put the air monitoring station right beside the railway Central Station, next to a taxi rank. Idling taxis, mostly empty buses belching and roaring up there all day, even a few bewildered private cars going around and around the one-way / bus-lane / empty-cycle-lane system while searching for an increasingly scarce parking spot, what do you expect.

Hilariously, the watermelons'[*] magical solution, public transport, has actually created localised pollution.

At the same time, the Cooncil is systematically removing outlying parking within walking distance of the city centre, which will just force more proles onto the groaning buses and trains where they can all get a nice lungful of those sweet nitrousy diesel emissions. It's OK though, they are putting "cycle highways" in in place of the parking, which will doubtless see a few hardy souls use them a couple of days a year.

The thought that they could just rip up the bus lanes and turn some of the many brown-field bomb-sites into car parks instead of yet more offices and flats with no parking facilities has never occurred to them.

The Cooncil and Scotch government offices in Glasgow all have private parking for their High Heid Yins, of course, because the burdens of State lie heavy on their shoulders and they need to arrive refreshed and ready.

[*] Green on the outside, red on the inside.
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[kramdra]

I dont see any significant change for most drivers in his video. Olympic lanes that few could use. Does not account for the visible increase in traffic, probaby just different time of day.

[Serendipity]

The Olympic "Games Lanes" were only marked for a few months. Before and after that the stretch of Victoria Embankment shown in the vid was two lanes each way for all traffic for most of the way.

It used to be one of my routes into The City, however along with another of my old routes, the Farringdon Road, it has been completely ruined with the cycle super highways (because that's the reason for this road narrowing).

I'm not against separating cycletards from normal road users, but it should really be concentrated on good junction design (for that is where most of them dive under the nearest HGV) rather than reducing huge amounts of road capacity.

The fact that the recent changes have crippled motorcycle filtering is lower on the TfL radar than the rights of local wildlife.

[Kris]

I've moaned before what an abortion they've made of Victoria Embankment. Much tighter lanes with double-whites and islands to actively discourage filtering.

So all you get now is a procession of bikes filtering over slippery white lines with HGVs either side. Brilliant 'safety' work TFL..


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[kerr]

I may have my hippy head on here, but isn't it yet another gubberment scam?
Yknow intentionally make the congestion worse so they can heap on more tax.
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[natefz6]

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The particularly frustrating thing to me is the ridiculous width of the cycle lanes compared to what would actually be necessary. Some of them could be half the width and still easily allow bidirectional flow.

Completely destroys filtering.

For the cagers, well, I have a narrow car and it's annoying enough. Can't imagine what it'd be like in a chelsea tractor/HGV.

I use basically every form of transport in the city according to what I feel like at the time. Walking, cycling, driving, motorbike, tube, bus, whatever.

I can't say I've ever felt at excessive risk cycling. The vast majority of the accidents I've been made aware of seem to be caused by either a lack of understanding/knowledge of how large motorised vehicles operate, or just not... thinking. Just don't pass an HGV until there's a large gap. If it's stationary get off and walk past it on the footpath. Job done.

They deliver the food you eat, you sort of want them, you know?