TFL Cycle Superhighways

Anyone just catch BBC London news?

Bojo standing in front of a blue lane discussing his commitment to public transport infrastructure, paritcularly the tube, bus, and crossrail... and the obvious budgetary pressures this would have on other programs such as cycling.

So yeah... I think he might be done.

+1.

+2

Saw motorbike cops patrolling today... Obviously no rlj ers to stop as they'd pulled over an adison lee van :)
(thought it was worth mentioning as people seem to think they are only stopping rlj-ers)

also got a ride in an hgv and loads of free stuff in colliers wood... The guy from Merton cc wanted me to feedback to lcc (when I said I was a member) that Merton is still part of London! :)

and the coppers loved the polo rig, I said they should give it a go and one (posibly over competative!) copper was really interested!

Almost forgot to say, I've read all about hgv blind spots, all the threads here and some others... But sitting in a cab the visibility is soooooo much worse than I imagined! I would recomend anyone who thinks they know how bad the visibility is to go to one of those sit in a cab's!

Two government agents stood outside Clapham North this morning as I passed at 7:45 with big smiles, baseball caps and t-shirts that read "ask us about cycling". You thought you had experienced Noddergeddon this summer. You were wrong...

Every couple of days I think, this is the most cyclists I've ever seen on my commute... Only for there to be even more a couple of days later... Where are all these people coming from? Are all the tubes empty?

Surely there can't be more than there were last night?

I saw them too (HGV near Collier Wood tube), they weren't entirely geared up, the person I spoken to seemed to think that everyone should wear a helmet and the like.

He though it was the most common injury amongst cyclists until I point out it's actually collarbones.

Every couple of days I think, this is the most cyclists I've ever seen on my commute... Only for there to be even more a couple of days later... Where are all these people coming from? Are all the tubes empty?

Surely there can't be more than there were last night?

It's mostly 9-5ers though...I cycled back from London Bridge to Stockwell at 11 and past maybe 2 cyclists in that direction? 6or 7 the other way. Plenty of cars and taxis.

I saw them too (HGV near Collier Wood tube), they weren't entirely geared up, the person I spoken to seemed to think that everyone should wear a helmet and the like.

He though it was the most common injury amongst cyclists until I point out it's actually collarbones.

I'd have guessed grazed palms... learn something new every day.

Isn't it oily marks on your skinny jeans?

Hat hair from too tight retro cycling hat?

both valid points... i stand corrected.

Carpet burns?

It's mostly 9-5ers though...I cycled back from London Bridge to Stockwell at 11 and past maybe 2 cyclists in that direction? 6or 7 the other way. Plenty of cars and taxis.

Yep, twice a week I take the kid to school so only go in for 10... See almost no one cycling, but on normal days there are hordes of 'em

chinese burns

The guy from Merton cc wanted me to feedback to lcc (when I said I was a member) that Merton is still part of London! :)

We know. :)

What did he look like?

Charles?

I think it might be fred ellis?

With all this talk about the pointlessness & inefficacy of the Cycle 'Superhighway', have we Londoners not overlooked one insidious element of this campaign?

The bright blue is a terrible colour to have in London - it has nothing to do with our traditional London colours. It clashes wildly with the trees, the Georgian and Victorian buildings, the other green & red lanes and the other road signage. So why is it BLUE and precisely why is it THAT shade of blue?

Oh wait, look... it's sponsored by Barclays! That wouldn't be BARCLAYS BLUE would it?

That's the last straw for me - I don't care about the efficacy of the lanes, I will continue to cycle around London as I have always done but I FUCKING OBJECT to Boris Johnson covering great swathes of our great historic city in the colour of a FUCKING BANK. What, so now every time I use a road, or even walk by one, I have to think about a FUCKING BANK?

I can't believe no one is saying anything. The gradual corporate branding of British Culture has to stop. It is flagrant institutionalized corporate corruption. 'O2' Arena, 'Carling' Academy, 'HMV' Forum, 'British Gas' Great North Swim, the list is endless - how about 'MacDonalds' Olympics? Motorola Glastonbury? But wait... hang on, THIS isn't a joke, THIS is real! I'm not dreaming! We now have 'Barclays' Cycle Lanes with Barclays Blue fking PAINT EVERYWHERE on THE FKING ROADS!!!! It's too much. I want to kill Boris Johnson, he has single-handedly destroyed the visual pleasure of looking at London!

What has he done to our city? Why are there not riots on the streets? Where is the lynch mob?

I hadn't realised that the blue had any significance until you mentioned it. This clearly puts me in a quandry. When young, we were told never to bank at Barclays because of their involvement in South Africa. I didn't then and still don't. I suppose that now means that I should avoid cycling on the blue lanes. Any idea of me using a hire bike has been thwarted by their sign on on the website which simply won't allow me to register so I suppose that is a good thing as i realise now that I should be boycotting them.

Yeh. But it's nice that NatWest use the recycling logo for their logo!

Perhaps London needs sponsoring.

Goldman Sachs London? At least we might be able to afford a decent transport infrastructure.

London's Famous London sponsored by... sounds like we have a drinking problem

It's the same blue as the cycle lanes in Copenhagen. The point is to make them stand out, not blend in.

However, I can imagine that the blue-ness of them helped persuade Barclays to stump up the cash.
People moan about businesses not giving anything back and then they moan about them paying for public facilities or concert halls. You can't have it both ways.

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