The London Cycling Campaign spends £100k on staff salaries, and apparently runs the entire city. The LTDA spends ten times that on staff, and nobody in power pays it any attention.
How is that possible?
Baffled by the number of taxi drivers claiming they can't take people where they need to go, or that they no longer know how the roads work.
If they get in my taxi, I'll get them to where they want to be.
@W12Newman
@AdamBienkov
You'd hope he'd understand the difference between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at 80, but you wouldn't bet on it.
'Today, on "Long Queues Of Traffic", we're visiting West Hampstead, an area with absolutely no recently quietened streets or places to ride a bike safely. Yet remarkably, it still manages to have really, really long queues of traffic'.
@BillParryDavies
@VincentStops
2,900 pedestrians were seriously injured in London between 2020 and 2022. Two of them were injured at bus stop bypasses. This isn't a pedestrian safety campaign.
@Dinky63387209
@TfL
What kind of a half-arsed taxi driver wouldn't want most cars removed?
People are free to travel wherever they want. The half of London's households without access to a car aren't free to drive.
Who's being used?
Highway Code will be
"introducing a hierarchy of road users which ensures that those road users who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility to reduce the danger or threat they may pose to others".
@Rob_Kimbell
Born here, became lawyer, MP, Cabinet minister, twice elected Mayor by the people of London. But do tell us about how well you've 'fitted in'?
@HGinnett
a) because the deaths aren't shared very equitably.
b) there have been queues there in the afternoon peak forever.
c) the bike lane is well-used. Unfortunately, it stops 200 metres to the east and dumps the unwary in the Surrey Quays gyratory. That will change.
Black cab taxi driving down Vanbrugh hill this morning while holding his mobile and texting. Caught up with him lower down hill and he argued that he could use his phone while queueing and started to film me - drove off still holding the phone. NB Longer clips have school kids.
@allpartycycling
"An elderly neighbour has missed two hospital appointments as the taxi service she uses couldn’t reach her or the hospital on time."
This keeps being recycled. She used a minicab service. A proper taxi would have had no trouble finding her.
@DominicPenna
@Maighna_N
"The council has had a real rush of blood to the head and pedestrianised a specialist shopping street," said Chiswick Riverside councillor Sam Hearn".
Nobody has pedestrianised Chiswick High Road.
@PalmerAlan
@JohnJohnStewart
35k vehicles a day on the A23 and 1k on a side street = social justice.
36k vpd on the A23 = social injustice.
No, me neither.
It's Nonsense Week for Vinnie. On the available evidence, man on bike rode inconsiderately and illegally on the pavement. Nothing to do with shared space or designing streets around bikes.
My taxi priority wish list for asking nicely of the new Westminster administration:
Clifton Road
Cockspur St.
Strand from Trafalgar Square
Marble Arch slip
Jlew front rank
Right into Whitehall from Bridge St.
Oxford St. car ban and enforcement
@GarethBaconMP
"Outer London" mostly doesn't have to afford it. The small proportion polluting their neighbours with elderly diesels might occasionally have to pay it.
@TfLTPH
I'm paying a licence fee of £380. I can see that you're not carrying out enforcement action, and I haven't been able to see where my money's gone since 2019. What am I getting for my £380?
@allpartycycling
"The court heard he had previous convictions for wounding, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and failure to surrender."
Which authority had licensed him?
@LambrosSavvides
Find me a camera-toter who thinks cyclists shouldn't be actionable for breaking traffic laws.
They don't want to be police officers, they want to be witnesses to crime.
Stick to the dietary advice.
@Heidi_LDN
@psimonk
@OnLondon
If you don't want people to drive, or overload mass transport, perhaps you should remind the public that London's taxis are partitioned, safe, and available.
@JohnJohnStewart
@peterwalker99
If they're concerned about selective plucking from a report which was due out in January, I can think of a simple fix which they haven't tried.