There are alternatives. I wonder how many journeys are cabs, I know a surprising number of people who take taxis absolutely everywhere regardless of the fact that it often takes longer.
Unless you need to use a car/van for work (delivery, Uber/cabs, etc.) there’s no point in using a car in London.
Cars ruin cities.
I call BS. From experience, I can guarantee you I sit in traffic for far longer than that……
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Fucking traffic!! Also, fucking lime bikes that might alleviate traffic!!!
Get rid of the bike lanes and you’d have lots of extra room for free flowing cars
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And it seems to be getting worse and worse. I think they could really alleviate things by providing some better bus routes, particularly for making longer trips in South London. Where I live in SE, there are some journeys that are literally twice as fast by car than by bus (greenwich->Camberwell, deptford ->bromley). Cycling is definitely part of the answer, but when your city is wet most of the year and very dark and cold october->march and peoples’ commutes would take greater than 30 mins, you’ll struggle to see mass takeup.
Bus speeds have completely collapsed. It’s untenable.
Not surprising in light of population growth and lack of infrastructure investment.
The roads were running quite smoothly up until around 2016, then after that someone came in and started changing all the layouts and speed limits and reduced throughput capacity in the process. Park Lane? From 3 40mph lanes down to a single 20mph lane. Roads everywhere having bus lanes added even when the roads were flowing just fine without them, CREATING the tailbacks that would cause you to need a bus lane – a self fulfilling prophecy!
That’s not to mention all these road closures such as around my area loads of no left turn rules on quiet residential streets that only operate for about 2 hours a day, with cameras to catch people out, and same with school streets – operated with time limits, cameras and signs that are inappropriately complicated to read while driving, designed to catch people out (if it was about child safety why not just temporarily close the road with swing barrier gates operated by the school staff?
The changes that have been taking place all over London just don’t make any sense, it was all moving much better before the meddling started. None of it feels like an improvement, it just feels like meddling for the sake of meddling, and installing revenue traps in as many places as possible. They’re literally scamming the public.
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There are alternatives. I wonder how many journeys are cabs, I know a surprising number of people who take taxis absolutely everywhere regardless of the fact that it often takes longer.
Unless you need to use a car/van for work (delivery, Uber/cabs, etc.) there’s no point in using a car in London.
Cars ruin cities.
I call BS. From experience, I can guarantee you I sit in traffic for far longer than that……
This sub:
Fucking traffic!! Also, fucking lime bikes that might alleviate traffic!!!
Get rid of the bike lanes and you’d have lots of extra room for free flowing cars
/s
And it seems to be getting worse and worse. I think they could really alleviate things by providing some better bus routes, particularly for making longer trips in South London. Where I live in SE, there are some journeys that are literally twice as fast by car than by bus (greenwich->Camberwell, deptford ->bromley). Cycling is definitely part of the answer, but when your city is wet most of the year and very dark and cold october->march and peoples’ commutes would take greater than 30 mins, you’ll struggle to see mass takeup.
Bus speeds have completely collapsed. It’s untenable.
Not surprising in light of population growth and lack of infrastructure investment.
The roads were running quite smoothly up until around 2016, then after that someone came in and started changing all the layouts and speed limits and reduced throughput capacity in the process. Park Lane? From 3 40mph lanes down to a single 20mph lane. Roads everywhere having bus lanes added even when the roads were flowing just fine without them, CREATING the tailbacks that would cause you to need a bus lane – a self fulfilling prophecy!
That’s not to mention all these road closures such as around my area loads of no left turn rules on quiet residential streets that only operate for about 2 hours a day, with cameras to catch people out, and same with school streets – operated with time limits, cameras and signs that are inappropriately complicated to read while driving, designed to catch people out (if it was about child safety why not just temporarily close the road with swing barrier gates operated by the school staff?
The changes that have been taking place all over London just don’t make any sense, it was all moving much better before the meddling started. None of it feels like an improvement, it just feels like meddling for the sake of meddling, and installing revenue traps in as many places as possible. They’re literally scamming the public.
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