Mayor pledges to stop punishing motorists (FT article)

Depressing article in the Financial Times today. Particularly this bit.

*The mayor says he wants to encourage cyclists, but adds: “If we are going to do so much more to encourage cycling then cyclists must understand that I will encourage whatever steps are necessary to crack down on aggressive cycling.”*

What kind of message is this?! Cyclists, be afraid, very afraid...

Ken Livingston counter-intuitively was better for cycling and public transport in London.
Boris only cycles from Chelsea to Westminster.

The security guard here has already started the 'clamp down'.. hahaha I rode away from him last night while he huffed about not riding here.. blah blah cue fade

Its a bit pot / kettle though isn't it? Given that he and his party leader were both caught riding in what blue rinse Joe Public thinks is aggressive (RLJs, pavements, one way streets etc.).

Depressing article in the Financial Times today. Particularly this bit.

*The mayor says he wants to encourage cyclists, but adds: “If we are going to do so much more to encourage cycling then cyclists must understand that I will encourage whatever steps are necessary to crack down on aggressive cycling.”*

What kind of message is this?! Cyclists, be afraid, very afraid...

It's basically saying that I'm gonna fuck you in the wallet to make more money for my own shortcomings on the underground etc, blahdy de blah.....

Nothing new really though

He is trying to please absolutely everybody. It is going to fail somewhere.

Less votes in cycling.

New routemaster, motorcycles in buslanes, fare hikes above inflation, scrapping higher 4x4 C-charge.

What a div.

Boris only cycles from Chelsea to Westminster.

Boris cycles from Highbury, where he lives, to Westminster.

He lives round the back of The Bailey on Holloway Rd, big old pool in his back yard too

There's no votes in it but it'd be a damn sight more useful if he cracked down on aggressive driving instead.

From the same article: *Boris Johnson vows in a document to stop punishing motorists for using their cars, clear the streets of what he calls “traffic-throttling excrescences”*

Slow the fuckers down, I say. There's already way too much speeding (for some reason it seems to be noticably worse this week - the Lewis Hamilton effect?), no need to give them the opportunity to race away even faster between traffic jams.

boris = cunt

Its a bit pot / kettle though isn't it?

I wonder if we'll ever see a white kettle grace the popular idiom?

Boris cycles from Highbury, where he lives, to Westminster.

Not since May he hasn't!

From the BBC:
"She also said there was nothing in the plans about how the mayor would encourage people onto public transport, but much on giving back road space and speeding up traffic lights in favour of the motorist."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7710648.stm

Well buses need the traffic to flow too, so it might help bus journeys.
And I'd rather drivers were not frustrated by loads of red lights and then speeding angrily to the next set. I think traffic (on the embankment and on the A4 at least) seems much calmer, slower and smoother when you get lots of green lights and no holdups. You get fewer pointless lane changes and carve-ups.

But then again if I'm on my bike I like red lights cos I can have a rest :-)

I wonder if we'll ever see a white kettle grace the popular idiom?

it would have to be something like:
kettle calling the [name of other white good] white.

go for it.