Cycle campaigning

Here we go, bonkers road-building plans are back again. I've known about this for a while, but this is the first high-profile mention in the press that I've seen.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/mayor-sets-out-plan-for-22mile-ringroad-tunnel-under-london-9354896.html

All easily avoidable if a different spatial development strategy is adopted for London and proper modal shift is done. But no, let's just assume that the status quo will continue.

“We are at the very early stage in exploring the potential. Cities such as Paris, Oslo and Boston have undertaken these kinds of ambitious projects and have seen dramatic results.

I wouldn't put Boston's Big Dig forward as a good example. IIRC it became the most expensive civil engineering project in US history - **$1.2 Billion dollars per mile of highway. **

Massive cost and time overruns. Huge wastage. And, having seen experienced both the before and after, did nothing to bridge the communities the original I-95 separated in the first place.

If they want to hold that up as a good example then there will be plenty of ammunition to shoot it down with.

The real question though is - will it connect with the new Thames Estuary Airport?