London's Closed This Weekend To Facilitate Cycling And Walking, As CoL Hypocritically Prepares To Ban Cycling Tours At Rush Hours

Living along London's Cycle Superhighways:

TfL masterplan aims to triple the number of people living near bike networks by 2024. If nothing else works, they will be bringing cycle lanes to your street, even if you want them or not!

Got I nice new £70k electric TXe.....looking to earn money towards your outgoing so this week end.....think again as the Mayor turns London into a cycle race track again!

This weekend 100,000 cyclists, from small children with stabilisers to professional riders, will take part in the UK’s biggest festival of cycling, the Prudential RideLondon.

On Saturday a seven-mile stretch of central London will be closed to cars allowing families to bike past the capital’s landmarks in safety. 

No thought at all from the Mayor towards people who need to access central London in a vehicle to earn a living!

Then on Sunday, a 100-mile cycle race which starts at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, runs through the Surrey Hills and finishes on The Mall. The route will virtually cut London in half.

In some ways, this is a snapshot of life to come. 

With 140km of further cycle paths in central London under construction or in planning, road-by-road the bike is being prioritised over the car. TfL are even challenging any council who object by turning the roads into red routes.

Work started this month on Cycle Superhighway 4, a route for commuting cyclists that will run from Deptford in south-east London to Tower Bridge, with new pedestrian crossings and a redesign of Rotherhithe roundabout — a notorious accident blackspot. Getting from Tower Hill to Greenwich is about to become a gridlocked nightmare with pollution levels going off the scale.

It’s part of a Transport for London £2.3 billion project (money that should of been spent on combating the violent knife crime epidermic) to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle routes to encourage more people to choose two wheels over four. This new infrastructure also fits with the political push to create healthier streets. Bu I fact, it's having the reverse affect by creating congestion......as Ken Livingstone said "before you charge for congestion....we will have to create it"....and he did.

According to a Government report on Active Travel, published earlier this month, the modern urban crises of congestion, air pollution and climate change, physical inactivity, depression and stress can all be tackled by the simple act of walking and cycling to the shops or to work. Oops, was that a flying pig going past City Hall?

TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :

The hypocrisy of the Mayor and the City of London has now shown its face again as 'The Square Mile' is about to ban certain cyclists from the city at rush hour......'due to the number of collisions between cyclists and pedestrians'

So, will we see Taxis replacing cyclists in the City at Bank Junction?