London's Drive to Work Day

David's photos of today also showed the Inner Ring Road, the Congestion Charging boundary streets, which now takes some of the motor traffic that used to go straight through Central London.

I, too, think that motor traffic is a bit of a red herring here, though, as the main issue isn't driving so much as over-centralisation. If we had a London in which nobody drove except when they absolutely had to, and we had zillions of people commuting to Central London by bike because that's where all the jobs are, I'd still be very concerned (and would probably still be campaigning against that).

Funnily enough, the 'inner ring road' (presuming you mean Victoria>hyde park corner>marble arch etc) is the most consistent route through town, even when it's at full capacity it's still moving OK. Further west and you may as well chop your cock off and send it to the moon, further east and the C-zone is as solid as a boxing day turd.

I also want to make the point that the 'congestion charge' is no longer based on congestion in any way whatsoever, it's an emmisions charge and should be named as such. A true congestion charge would charge all traffic driving through central London, the fact that the direct route though the middle exists outside of the zone makes the whole thing a bit of a joke really.