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• #77
Yes, as predicted. It'll take a long time to peg that back again, let alone achieve any lasting reduction in motorisation.
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• #78
Public transport use is going up again:
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• #79
As expected:
(Coupled with an e-scooter company trying to push its products. If there's one thing London does not need, it's e-scooters. Generally failed, decades-old transport policy + e-scooters = worse situation.)
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• #80
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• #81
If there's one thing London does not need, it's e-scooters
Nobody needs e-scooters.
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• #82
Tru dat.
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• #83
Hard to say how transitional this is, but here's hoping that things will have recovered before there are funding rounds.
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• #84
Unfortunately, too many people still appear to be deciding to use private motor cars for transport in London. Had to ride from West to South London and back in the early afternoon today. Frustrating hour each way of negotiating/ filtering through roads clogged with oversized metal boxes emitting acrid fumes. I'm lucky though, I'm not one of the kids I saw walking home from school having to breathe that every day.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/traffic-heavier-than-before-pandemic-jnbxd89sq
Traffic heavier than before pandemic.
This time last year we had a platform given to the transport secretary talking about a massive change in transport habits. Transport levels were part of the government's daily press briefing and part of the national conversation. We now have worse traffic than before and it passes without comment.