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Red Ken destroyed the traffic flow in many parts of the city
That's good isn't it? Disrupting traffic flow ie smoothness of travel for people in cars, making it harder to drive is one of the things that will get people out their cars. Cyclists traffic flow is improved, especially with bus lane enforcement and the ability to filter through the closed (to motors) streets. Bus lanes help to ensure bus traffic flow. The next phase in making it harder to drive is less likely to happen, making driving much much more expensive, fuel escalator, VED hike etc and even banning some vehicles like the french are doing.
(oh and it's drive to work day on Thursday)
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Surely cyclists end up just as caught up with that disrupted traffic flow though. (Assuming the disrupted traffic flow isn't due to building separate cycling provision which, it appears, is not necessarily a favoured option.)
For instance when traffic is heavy then it's almost impossible to overtake buses in bus lanes as there are no gaps in the traffic to the right of you. Similarly, you end up spending more time filtering which is slower, there'll be bigger queues of traffic which some cyclists will be hell-bent on getting to the front of which is more dangerous, etc.
Disrupting car journeys in order to provide other infrastructure is one thing (I look forward to the day when car parking is banned on Green Lanes for instance and they use all that space for something useful) but doing it just to put drivers off doesn't seem to help anyone.
aggi
Ed's right. Red Ken destroyed the traffic flow in many parts of the city prior to the Congestion Charge. I lived in Bermondsey at the time and prior to Red's antics the traffic flowed smoothly and predictably, once he got his hands on the light sequencing, closed lots of back streets, made roads one way, it all went to pot pretty quickly