“Mass trespass” sees hundreds cycle through controversial Silvertown Tunnel where cyclists have to catch “greenwashing” bus due to lack of bike route

by F0urLeafCl0ver

15 comments

  1. It should be closed to cars and opened to cyclists permanently, except that London is now on the hook to private companies for £2,500,000,000 to pay for construction. What a mess of a project.

  2. I’m not a cyclist myself, but fully sympathise with them here. It’s absurd that in this day and age new infrastructure can be built in inner London that makes no provision for cyclists.

    (Yes I know technically there is a shuttle bus for bikes, but come on, really?!)

  3. They costed a pedestrian and cycle solution for the tunnel and worked out it would have cost 3 to 4% extra to include it. Apparently that’s too much when you’re spending £2.2 billion for cars. Every journey doesn’t matter!

  4. Ended up being blocked by these cunts on Blackwall Lane on Friday night. One cycled directly at my car pulling a wheelie as I was coming up to the back of the queue and a couple of mins later another punched the passenger side window, scared the crap out of my wife.

    Edit: protest all you want that’s fine, even doing it this way, but punching my car window for no reason crossed a line.

  5. The Silvertown Tunnel is the most pointless public infrastructure I’ve seen in a while. 

    You can’t cycle on the thing and somehow the toll is meant to be green because one builds a motor vehicle tunnel as a green solution???

  7. Good this project is a mess and proper infrastructure was the solution not a temporary bus.

    This needs visibility.

  9. Cyclists proving once again they are the most entitled group of commuters in the city. Just because you ride a fast thing on two wheels does not give you a requirement to be able to travel on every possible surface in the city.

    Either it’s a road vehicle in which case y out can abide by the laws of the road, or you can get the fuck on a tube or bus instead

  10. All those posts debating and arguing and complaining about what type of protest is acceptable these days.

    This…this is the answer.

  11. Tunnels, pavements, red lights, middle of the road, the wrong way on narrow cycle paths, entitled car owners, that’s the problem.

  12. In Helsinki, cars are mostly separated from cyclists. Medium density housing, lots of public transport, wide streets, smaller population and very little Edwardian sprawling brick so much easier.

  13. Councils are slowly realising less cars and busses means less money for them, so expect similar crackdowns on cycling.

  14. Find them and make them pay the charge to go through the tunnel.

  15. Good for them. They could have avoided that by having cycle infrastructure

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